Scientific Discoveries

Scientific Discoveries

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Added on: 7 October 2008, 4:18 am

Oranges that get you high:
...and the seizure of his family’s minivan would inspire one of the most controversial drug-related scientific discoveries of the century.

Added on: 7 October 2008, 12:55 am

Black swan Theory:
Taleb regards many scientific discoveries as black swans—"undirected" and unpredicted. He gives the rise of the Internet, the personal...

Added on: 6 October 2008, 7:21 pm

Ronald Mirman: U.S. Space Policy = Waste As Much Money As Possible:
we send humans it will never be possible to tell. The US will then go down in history as having committed the greatest scientific crime of all time. It will be a fitting finale to the George Bush administration. We cannot have a reasonable space program until we accept that

Added on: 6 October 2008, 2:25 pm

How come these guys win awards?:
Come on, they've discovered hugely dangerous things through their "scientific" discoveries. HIV and HCV kill millions of people every year and...

Added on: 6 October 2008, 12:36 pm

Men Who Found Out: Stories of Great Scientific Discoveries...:
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Added on: 7 October 2008, 3:15 am

3 get Nobel for HPV, AIDS virus discoveries (Arizona Daily Star):
Two French scientists who discovered the AIDS virus and a German who defied convention in showing a viral cause for cervical cancer shared the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for breakthroughs that have led to lifesaving drugs and a vaccine.

Added on: 7 October 2008, 1:19 am

3 Share Nobel Prize for HIV/AIDS, Cancer (This Day):
Three European scientists yesterday shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine for separate discoveries of viruses that cause AIDS and cervical cancer breakthroughs that helped doctors fight the deadly diseases.

Added on: 7 October 2008, 12:19 am

Nobel medicine award shared by 3 (Winston-Salem Journal):
Three European scientists shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine yesterday for separate discoveries of viruses that cause AIDS and cervical cancer, breakthroughs that helped doctors fight the diseases.

Added on: 6 October 2008, 10:07 pm

German, 2 French share Nobel in medicine (Chinapost.com.tw):
n Monday for separate discoveries of viruses that cause AIDS and cervical cancer, breakthroughs that helped doctors fight the deadly diseases. French researchers Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier were cited for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, in 1983.

Added on: 6 October 2008, 4:52 pm

Virus discoveries secure Nobel prize in medicine (Nature):
Work on HIV and human papilloma virus already offers health benefits.