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Enlarge / Hubble Space Telescope above Earth, photographed during STS-125, Servicing Mission 4, May 2009. (credit: NASA) After NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope entered “safe” mode about two weeks ago, its operations team has been scrambling to bring a balky gyroscope back online. Now, the space agency says it believes it has fixed the problem. “The […]
Thomson Reuters Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said Tuesday that Russia has come “out of hibernation” and poses a stark threat — cyber and otherwise — to the US and its allies. “Thanks to [Russian President] Vladimir Putin, we’ve gotten a wake-up call,” Coats said. Coats joined other intelligence chiefs in assessing that despite […]
Reuters/Dinuka Liyanawatte When turtles hibernate, they rely on stored energy and uptake oxygen from the pond water by moving it across body surfaces that are flush with blood vessels. This way, they can get enough oxygen to support their minimal needs without using their lungs. Turtles have one area that is especially well vascularized — […]
CANCER could be tackled more effectively by putting patients into a torpor state similar to that of a hibernating bear, a leading scientist has claimed. Daily Express :: Health Feed
Tumour growth would slow right down or cease while healthy cells in the body become more resistant to radiation, says physicist Professor Marco Durante, from the Trento Institute in Italy. As a result larger doses of cancer-killing radiotherapy could be administered in safety. The radical idea follows years of research on hibernating animals, and anecdotal […]
