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chinese government to build ufo research center

government officials in guiyang, capital of guizhou province, announced on tuesday that they had received $20 million from a taiwan-based company to build a ufo research facility in china. the project is a result of several people in the city's baiyun district claiming they were visited by extraterrestials in 1994. with the new research facility, scientists hope to reproduce the mysterious moment through photos and historical documentation.

in 1994, more than 27 pine trees in a forest farm in the district mysteriously fell down. however, nearby plastic shelters stood intact.

an nearby motor vehicle factory reported similar unexlained events: steel pipes were strangely broken; a huge truck was found more than 20 metres away from its original place; and a factory employee claims he was mysteriously pulled up in the air by an "unknown" force.

however, while some thought it was ufos behind these events, scientists stated after a field trip to the locations that thunder, lightning and tornados were the probable causes. wang fangchen, a biologist who visited the site right after the event, said the city's plan to build a ufo research base is "ridiculous."

"where do they recruit scientists for the research?" he asked, before adding: "i won't oppose it if they just want to promote local tourism through the programme." li jing, a senior astronomer with the national astronomical observatories, echoed the view. li said china does not have an official ufo research institute because "it needs scientists of various disciplines."

"it can be an atmospheric phenomenon, or a biological issue, or a physical reaction," li said. "people often mistake planes, clouds and insects, as well as strange shadows on photographs, as being ufos," said zhou xiaoqiang, secretary-general with the beijing ufo research association.

"if aliens really came, they would more likely appear before our eyes politely than hide themselves."

i wonder how this is going to pan out...

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sarah palin: anti-science, anti-research, anti-intelligence

first sarah palin supports the teaching of religion in public schools (creationism) which john mccain is not opposed to. then she can't name a single newspaper she's ever read. and now she comes out against fruit fly research. fruit flies are invaluable for all modern research on human diseases. guess she doesn't want to cure autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, alzheimer's, cancer... oh and let's not forget the hockey mom with a $150,000 wardrobe and joe the plumber who's a total fraud. the entire mccain campaign is built on lies and fear. they are pro-jesus and anti-science, but yet they go to the doctor when they are sick instead of staying home and praying. why, because they know better and use these simple lies to sway the ignorant masses. thanks cdk007

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research: sex on the brain

researchers at rutgers university have an interesting job.
they're trying to figure out what goes into a woman's orgasm.

using brain scanners and other technology, researchers watch women's brains as they're having an orgasm.

one of the researchers is beverly whipple, who co-wrote a book called "the g-spot," and another is barry komisaruk. komisaruk said the researchers have managed to find areas of the brain that are activated when a woman has an orgasm.

the idea is to eventually use the research to help women who experience difficulty having an orgasm.

the rutgers work is being funded by the federal government and the christopher reeve paralysis foundation.

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alcohol research (real one)

bums these days will do anything for cash... (sorry for wrong one)

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research maddness

i bet the spiders had a killer time...

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research brings hope body parts can regrow

buoyed by recent genetic breakthroughs, researchers at northwestern university and across the country have hopes of achieving a feat long thought to be impossible: enabling people to replace damaged body parts or even regrow missing limbs.

like salamanders and other lower species, humans possess genes that direct the body to make new arms and legs after an injury. but in humans, the genes lie dormant, inactivated after evolution favored the swift patching of wounds through scarring over the slow regeneration of body parts.

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the stupidity of religious arguments against stem cell research

an eloquent speech that shows how utterly vacuous theological arguments are once one considers the simple reality of a problem

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why women love make-up = serious research study

women anticipate a rush of anticipation and optimism as they prepare to apply make-up, according to brain function research by japanese scientists.

the findings are the result of more than two years of research by cosmetics giant kanebo but came as a surprise to the team, headed by brain scientist dr ken mogi. the researchers had expected to find that women experience positive emotions after they had applied the make-up.

the company's "cosmetics, beauty and brain science" project determined that there are distinct cognitive activities involved in a woman's perception of her face with and without make-up.

using a brain scanner, the scientists were able to monitor activity in the caudate nucleus of the brain and confirm that when a woman sees her own face without make-up, she anticipates how she will eventually appear to others and a "reward system" is activated, releasing dopamine to give sensations of pleasure.

"we know from previous research that when this area of the brain is activated we can derive pleasure from certain activities," said keishi saruwatari, of kanebo's laboratories. "we interpret that as meaning that when a woman looks at her face she is imagining how she will look when she has applied her make-up.

"there is a mixture of expectation, encouragement and ambition," he said. "make-up contributes to building relationships with others and feelings of pleasure in women."

the research focused on female responses, but the team believes similar feelings may be at work when a man shaves or puts on cologne of a morning.

"we can now not only put a functional value on a product now, but also measure the emotional appeal," said scientist yasuhiko tanaka. "by using quantifiable research, we will be able to strengthen the emotional value of a product and enable us to develop more appealing versions."

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study: mice research links fast food to alzheimer's

london (reuters) - mice fed junk food for nine months showed signs of developing the abnormal brain tangles strongly associated with alzheimer's disease, a swedish researcher said on friday.

the findings, which come from a series of published papers by a researcher at sweden's karolinska institutet, show how a diet rich in fat, sugar and cholesterol could increase the risk of the most common type of dementia.

"on examining the brains of these mice, we found a chemical change not unlike that found in the alzheimer brain," susanne akterin, a researcher at the karolinska institutet's alzheimer's disease research center, who led the study, said in a statement.

"we now suspect that a high intake of fat and cholesterol in combination with genetic factors ... can adversely affect several brain substances, which can be a contributory factor in the development of alzheimer's."

alzheimer's disease is incurable and is the most common form of dementia among older people. it affects the regions of the brain involving thought, memory and language.

while the most advanced drugs have focused on removing clumps of beta amyloid protein that forms plaques in the brain, researchers are also now looking at therapies to address the toxic tangles caused by an abnormal build-up of the protein tau.

in her research, akterin focused on a gene variant called apoe4, found in 15 to 20 percent of people and which is a known risk factor for alzheimer's. the gene is involved in the transport of cholesterol.

she studied mice genetically engineered to mimic the effect of the variant gene in humans, and which were fed a diet rich in fat, sugar and cholesterol for nine months -- meals representing the nutritional content of fast food.

these mice showed chemical changes in their brains, indicating an abnormal build-up of the protein tau as well as signs that cholesterol in food reduced levels of another protein called arc involved in memory storage, akterin said.

"all in all, the results give some indication of how alzheimer's can be prevented, but more research in this field needs to be done before proper advice can be passed on to the general public," she said.

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