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Science28 Jun 2012

J. Martinez & Company Fine Coffees Adds a Third Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee Estate Partnership

J. Martinez & Company, coffee merchants and roasters, are very pleased to announce the addition of a third estate coffee from the famous Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee region. This third estate coffee is from RSW Estates, a partnership of three small family-owned properties - Resource Coffee Farm, Sherwood Forest, and Whitfield Farm. These venerable properties have been producing coffee since the late 1700's. The coffee beans from these farms are exceptional. Generally, these proprietors have less land under cultivation than they once did at the peak of production ...

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Science28 Jun 2012

Prudential Reports Average Brit to Make a Million by the Age of 56

New research* from Prudential has revealed that the average UK worker will have earned GBP1 million by the time they are 56 years, nine months and three weeks old. However, despite these cumulative earnings, fewer than two in five (37 per cent) of those expecting to retire this year have saved enough to secure a comfortable retirement. Prudential's analysis of average incomes shows that becoming a millionaire before tax is well within most men's grasp, as long as they start work at 18 and then earn the average income for their age bracket through to age 65. A ...

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Social Science28 Jun 2012

Social Media Revenue Strategist to the Stars Helps Celebrities Cash-in Big

Matthew Loop, who's an internationally recognized authority in the social media marketing world, first-rate business growth coach and a serial entrepreneur, is sharing his brand monetization formula with well-known celebrities. He strategically shows them how to turn their fame and notoriety into highly-sought-after digital information products that can be offered to loyal fans online. These include things like iPhone apps, private VIP membership sites, ebooks, teleseminars, coaching programs, DVD trainings, webinars and more. When contacted in his Atlanta office Loop ...

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Science28 Jun 2012

Freshmobile, a Grocery Store on Wheels, Reaching Underserved Areas

Everyone knows that it's important to have plenty of fruits and vegetables, especially for growing children. But for many families in Dane County, being able to provide that healthy, fresh food is more than an inconvenience. It can be nearly impossible. Jeff Maurer, owner of local grocery store Fresh Madison Market, has put together a custom-built grocery store on wheels called Freshmobile, with the support of several other local companies. Beginning July 2, he will travel six days per week to Allied Drive and five other 'food deserts' in the Madison area, providing ...

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Science28 Jun 2012

InternetReputation.com Now Offers Guaranteed Removal from Cheaterville.com

InternetReputation.com is happy to announce that their award-winning Internet reputation management services extend to the popular cheating reports website Cheaterville.com. Reports are removed from this website with "100% success" if your information can't be removed from this website, you'll get your money back, guaranteed. Cheaterville.com is a widely-popular social website where users can log in and report romantic interests and partners they've been jilted by. Because of the nature of these highly personal reports, the information cannot be verified by ...

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Science28 Jun 2012

"SmartStuff" E-book Introduces "Internet of Things" Revolution to Public

SmartStuff, a new e-book,, introduces the public and executives to the "The Internet of Things," (IoT) which promises to change every aspect of our lives in this decade, yet is unknown to most people. SmartStuff: an introduction to the Internet of Things, by data strategist and futurist W. David Stephenson, explains the second major phase of the Internet, in which the number of human users will be dwarfed by the number of cell phones, remote sensors and devices connected by the Internet. The book is available at http://amzn.to/My3kKm . By some estimates, ...

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Medicine27 Jun 2012

Eating garbage: Bacteria for bioremediation

URBANA -- A 150-foot-high garbage dump in Colombia, South America, may have new life as a public park. Researchers at the University of Illinois have demonstrated that bacteria found in the dump can be used to neutralize the contaminants in the soil. Jerry Sims, a U of I associate professor of crop sciences and USDA-Agricultural Research Service research leader and Andres Gomez, a graduate student from Medellín, Colombia, have been working on a landfill called "El Morro" in the Moravia Hill neighborhood of Medellín, which served as the city dump from 1972 to 1984. In ...

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Science27 Jun 2012

Cassini shows why jet streams cross-cut Saturn

Turbulent jet streams, regions where winds blow faster than in other places, churn east and west across Saturn. Scientists have been trying to understand for years the mechanism that drives these wavy structures in Saturn's atmosphere and the source from which the jets derive their energy. In a new study appearing in the June edition of the journal Icarus, scientists used images collected over several years by NASA's Cassini spacecraft to discover that the heat from within the planet powers the jet streams. Condensation of water from Saturn's internal heating led to temperature ...

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Environment27 Jun 2012

Greenland ice may exaggerate magnitude of 13,000-year-old deep freeze

MADISON -- Ice samples pulled from nearly a mile below the surface of Greenland glaciers have long served as a historical thermometer, adding temperature data to studies of the local conditions up to the Northern Hemisphere's climate. But the method -- comparing the ratio of oxygen isotopes buried as snow fell over millennia -- may not be such a straightforward indicator of air temperature. "We don't believe the ice cores can be interpreted purely as a signal of temperature," says Anders Carlson, a University of Wisconsin–Madison geosciences professor. "You have to consider ...

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Space27 Jun 2012

NASA sees Tropical Storm Debby's clouds blanket Florida

Like a white blanket, Tropical Storm Debby's clouds covered the entire state of Florida in a NASA satellite image. Two satellites have captured imagery that shows Tropical Storm Debby has thrown a large white blanket of clouds over the state of Florida, and it doesn't seem like that blanket is going to lift quickly as Debby moves slowly north. NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Storm Debby and the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument onboard the satellite captured a visible image of the storm on Sunday, June 24 at 3:00 p.m. EDT. The ...

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Science27 Jun 2012

Romancing the firefly

MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (June 25, 2012) – The twinkling of fireflies heralds summer romance for these magical insects. While courting on-the-wing, male fireflies attract females' attention with bioluminescent flashes. But new research from biologists at Tufts University's School of Arts and Sciences, published online in Proceedings of the Royal Society - Biological Sciences, reveals that, after the lights go out, female fireflies prefer substance over flash. They seem to choose mates able to give them the largest "nuptial gift" (a high protein sperm package that helps ...

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Science27 Jun 2012

UCLA-led research team develops world's most powerful nanoscale microwave oscillators

A team of UCLA researchers has created the most powerful high-performance nanoscale microwave oscillators in the world, a development that could lead to cheaper, more energy-efficient mobile communication devices that deliver much better signal quality. Today's cell phones, WiFi–enabled tablets and other electronic gadgets all use microwave oscillators, tiny devices that generate the electrical signals used in communications. In a cell phone, for example, the transmitter and receiver circuits contain oscillators that produce radio-frequency signals, which are then converted ...

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Science27 Jun 2012

UCLA biologists reveal potential 'fatal flaw' in iconic sexual selection study

A classic study from more than 60 years ago suggesting that males are more promiscuous and females more choosy in selecting mates may, in fact, be wrong, say life scientists who are the first to repeat the historic experiment using the same methods as the original. In 1948, English geneticist Angus John Bateman published a study showing that male fruit flies gain an evolutionary advantage from having multiple mates, while their female counterparts do not. Bateman's conclusions have informed and influenced an entire sub-field of evolutionary biology for decades. "Bateman's ...

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Medicine27 Jun 2012

Transgenic technique to 'eliminate' a specific neural circuit of the brain in primates

In the brains of humans and non-human primates, over 100 billion nerve cells build up complicated neural circuits and produce higher brain functions. When an attempt is made to perform gene therapy for neurological diseases like Parkinson's disease, it is necessary to specify a responsible neural circuit out of many complicated circuits. Until now, however, it was difficult to introduce a target gene into this particular circuit selectively. The collaborative research group consisting of Professor Masahiko TAKADA from Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Professor ...

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Science27 Jun 2012

Penn researchers show 'neural fingerprints' of memory associations

PHILADELPHIA -- Researchers have long been interested in discovering the ways that human brains represent thoughts through a complex interplay of elec-trical signals. Recent improvements in brain recording and statistical methods have given researchers unprecedented insight into the physical processes under-lying thoughts. For example, researchers have begun to show that it is possible to use brain recordings to reconstruct aspects of an image or movie clip someone is viewing, a sound someone is hearing or even the text someone is reading. A new study by University ...

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Technology27 Jun 2012

Tablet computers may interfere with settings on magnetically programmable shunt valves

Charlottesville, VA (June 26, 2012). Researchers at the University of Michigan have found that the Apple iPad 2 can interfere with settings of magnetically programmable shunt devices, which are often used to treat children with hydrocephalus. The iPad 2 contains magnets that can change valve settings in the shunt if the tablet computer is held too close to the valve (within 2 inches). Such a change may result in shunt malfunction until the problem is recognized and the valve adjusted to the proper setting. Patients and their caregivers should monitor use of the tablet computer ...

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Medicine27 Jun 2012

Bacterial vaginosis is associated with higher risk of female-to-male transmission of HIV

An investigation led by UCSF has found that the risk of female-to-male HIV transmission is increased three fold for women with bacterial vaginosis, a common disorder in which the normal balance of bacteria in the vagina is disrupted. "Previous research has shown that bacterial vaginosis can increase a women's risk of becoming infected with HIV as much as sixty percent. Our study is the first to show that the risk of transmitting HIV is also elevated. Our findings point to the need for additional research to improve the diagnosis and treatment of bacterial vaginosis, ...

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Medicine27 Jun 2012

Regular, moderate, coffee drinking may reduce heart failure risk

If you drink coffee regularly in moderation, you could reduce your risk of heart failure, according to new research in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation Heart Failure. Researchers, analyzing previous studies on the link between coffee consumption and heart failure, found that moderate coffee drinking as part of a daily routine may be linked with a significantly lower risk of heart failure. In contrast, indulging excessively may be linked with an increased chance of developing serious heart problems. "While there is a commonly held belief that regular ...

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Energy27 Jun 2012

Stanford scientists spark new interest in the century-old Edison battery

Stanford University scientists have breathed new life into the nickel-iron battery, a rechargeable technology developed by Thomas Edison more than a century ago. Designed in the early 1900s to power electric vehicles, the Edison battery largely went out of favor in the mid-1970s. Today only a handful of companies manufacture nickel-iron batteries, primarily to store surplus electricity from solar panels and wind turbines. "The Edison battery is very durable, but it has a number of drawbacks," said Hongjie Dai, a professor of chemistry at Stanford. "A typical battery ...

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Engineering27 Jun 2012

Low and middle income countries are the recent targets of processed food manufacturers

"There is significant penetration by multinational processed food manufacturers such as Nestle, Kraft, PepsiCo, and Danone into food environments in low-and-middle income countries, where consumption of unhealthy commodities is reaching—and in some cases exceeding—a level presently observed in high income countries", according to international researchers writing in this week's PLoS Medicine. The authors from the UK, US, and India (led by David Stuckler from the University of Cambridge), analysed trends in unhealthy food and beverages (sugary drinks and processed foods ...

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Science27 Jun 2012

Who has power over food?

Addressing the twin crises of malnutrition around the world—hunger and obesity— demands that we ask who has power over food, rather than question just the mere presence or absence of food. This is the argument of Raj Patel, activist, author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System and fellow at the University of KwaZulu-Natal's School of Development Studies, in a new Essay in PLoS Medicine this week, which says that "understanding hunger and malnutrition requires an examination of what systems and institutions hold power over food," including ...

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Science27 Jun 2012

Prenatal exposure to common household chemical increases risk for childhood eczema, study says

Prenatal exposure to a ubiquitous household chemical called butylbenzyl phthalate (BBzP) can increase a child's risk for developing eczema, according to research conducted at the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health at the Mailman School of Public Health. Widely used in vinyl flooring, artificial leather and other materials, BBzB can be slowly released into air in homes. Details are published in the advance online edition of Environmental Health Perspectives, a journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Eczema, which is characterized ...

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Science27 Jun 2012

Study challenges the notion that a calorie is just a calorie

Boston, Mass., June 26, 2012 – A new study published today in the Journal of American Medical Association challenges the notion that "a calorie is a calorie." The study, led by Cara Ebbeling, PhD, associate director and David Ludwig, MD, director of the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center Boston Children's Hospital, finds diets that reduce the surge in blood sugar after a meal--either low-glycemic index or very-low carbohydrate–may be preferable to a low-fat diet for those trying to achieve lasting weight loss. Furthermore, the study finds that the low-glycemic ...

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Medicine27 Jun 2012

Clot-busting medicine safe for use in warfarin-treated patients following stroke

DURHAM, N.C.— The clot-busting medicine, tPA (tissue plasminogen activator), is safe to use in acute stroke patients already on the home blood thinner warfarin, according to researchers from Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI). This study helps allay previous concerns that tPA was too dangerous to use in patients on home anticoagulation and would lead to high risk for potentially fatal intracranial bleeding. "To date, we have no randomized trials or large cohort studies to guide us," says Ying Xian, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine at Duke, and first ...

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Science27 Jun 2012

Stepped-care intervention results in weight loss, at lower cost

CHICAGO – Although a standard behavioral weight loss intervention among overweight and obese adults resulted in greater average weight loss over 18 months, a stepped care intervention resulted in clinically meaningful weight loss that cost less to implement, according to a study in the June 27 issue of JAMA. "Most weight loss programs are intensive during the initial weeks of treatment, become less intensive over time, and maintain a fixed contact schedule for participants irrespective of treatment success or failure. Intensive weight loss programs are costly and require ...

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