A new study published in Psycho-Oncology has revealed that a free web-based decision aid that helps women with breast cancer make decisions regarding reconstruction surgery after mastectomy is likely cost-effective. BRECONDA (Breast Reconstruction De…
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Free online tool could help women decide on breast reconstruction
Posted by Jean Balchin on April 5th, 2018
Posted in Biology, Environment, Geology and Paleontology, Science General, Technology 
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No Comments »Military Weapon Uses Lasers to Produce ‘Voices’
Posted by Discover Magazine on March 26th, 2018
Are you hearing voices? Say yes and many people might question your sanity. But hearing voices is exactly what the United States military hopes will happen with a weapon it’s currently developing.
The Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program (JNLWD) is build…
Posted in Astronomy, Astronomy & Space, Earth & Climate, Environment, Feature, Science General Tags: hearing, Hearing Voices, military, Voices, weapon No Comments »Sexual Signaling, Dino-Style
Posted by Discover Magazine on March 21st, 2018
Triceratops to potential mate: “Hey baby, check out my frill and big horns…you know what they say, big horns, big everything, awwwww yeahhhhh…”
Apparently, that’s how hook-ups went down in the Mesozoic, at least for the famously horned and frilled…
Posted in Astronomy, Astronomy & Space, Earth & Climate, Environment, Feature, Science General Tags: Animals, ceratopsians No Comments »Astronomers detect ancient signal from first stars in universe
Posted by NSF News on March 8th, 2018
For additional information on this breakthrough, NSF has produced the video “The birth of the first stars.”
For the first time, astronomers have detected a signal from stars emerging in the early universe. Using a radio antenna not much larger than a…
Posted in Environment, Science General, Strange news, Technology Tags: ancient, Astronomers, first stars, signal, Universe No Comments »Yes, Rockets CAN Fly in a Vacuum
Posted by Discover Magazine on February 25th, 2018
“Rockets can’t fly in space! There’s no air for the engine to burn in space! And there’s no air for the rocket to push against in space! WE’VE NEVER LEFT EARTH!”
So goes the cry of people who don’t believe we landed on the Moon — at le…
Posted in Astronomy, Astronomy & Space, Earth & Climate, Environment, Feature, Science General Tags: engine, Rockets, there’s, Vacuum No Comments »
