A new malaria vaccine is showing some positive results in trials conducted in Kenya and Tanzania. You’ll notice the article mentions that this is being done by scientists, as opposed to Allah or Jesus. Hopefully, once a final vaccine for malaria is discovered, it won’t be hampered by religious fanatics like the effort to eradicate [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘science’
September 9, 2008
Oooooohh, SUCK IT, creationists!
Scientists are about to create life from non-living matter. How can anybody still believe in creationism?
“We’ve made more progress on how the membrane of a protocell could grow and divide,” Szostak said in a phone interview. “What we can do now is copy a limited set of simple [genetic] sequences, but we need to [...]
August 17, 2008
Some good (no, FUCKING AWESOME) news for a change
Scientists (not faith-healers, new age quacks or politicians – scientists) at MIT are hard at work, apparently saving our collective asses from ourselves.
One problem with wind and solar power is that for either to be able to provide a round-the-clock source of reliable power, you need some sort of back up power source. Or [...]
