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Bielefeld University’s Achim Mueller, Tianbo Liu, and their colleagues have made soccerball shaped nanocapsules from molybdenum-containing units. They have found that replacing the iron stitching with lanthanide ions allows them to momentarily open the capsules. Components can then sneak in before the nanoscopic opening snaps shut in a kind of “Close Sesame” as if by [...]

Dr. Ho writes: Evidence linking weak electromagnetic radiation (EMR) to leukaemia and other cancers has been fast accumulating in recent years. Such ‘non-thermal’ effects of EMR – due to levels well below that sufficient to bring about any heating – have been observed even before World War II. During the cold war period, a four-fold [...]

“Healers” who wave their hands over the patient and claim to transmit some kind of undefined energy – want to find out whether their efforts increase the number of white blood cells in cancer sufferers.

The trial is the brainchild of hospital departmental manager Angela Buxton whose son died of leukemia. She is on record as [...]

The method makes it unnecessary to store or transport hydrogen – two major challenges in creating a hydrogen economy, said Jerry Woodall, a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue who invented the process.

“The hydrogen is generated on demand, so you only produce as much as you need when you need it,” said [...]

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