Noteworthy Web Articles: July 2012

Due to a large amount of project work over the next few months, Web articles we pick will be unclassified.

• Are Warnings About the Side Effects of Drugs Making Us Sick?
  
• Study Proves There Are No Healthy Tans
  
• Discovery may lead to new tomato varieties with vintage flavor and quality
  
• Interacting mutations promote diversity
  
• Provocative Prescription for Chemical Evolution in Plants
  
• No evidence of mermaids, says US government
  
• Flywheels move from steam age technology to Formula 1
  
• Lipid helps cells find their way by keeping their “antennae” up
  
• What Happens When We Sunburn
  
• Diagnostic technique uses immune cell DNA
  
• Nutrient mixture improves memory in patients with early Alzheimer’s
• Carnegie Mellon’s Smart Headlight System Will Have Drivers Seeing Through the Rain
  
• New Silk Technology Preserves Heat-Sensitive Drugs for Months without Refrigeration
  
• Sounds of Northern Lights are born close to ground
  
• Shining lights of chemistry
  
• Failing metal hip implants could be releasing toxic nanoparticles
  
• Amniotic fluid yields alternatives to embryonic stem cells
  
• Harvard's Wyss Institute Develops Novel Nanotherapeutic that Delivers Clot-Busting Drugs Directly to Obstructed Blood Vessels
  
• White LEDs placed directly on paper
  
• Why powerlines confuse the internal compass
  
• Searching genomic data faster
  
• New biofuel process dramatically improves energy recovery
  
• Messy experiment cleans up physics mystery of cornstarch
  
• Omega-3 Lowers Inflammation in Overweight Older Adults
  
• Killing of Bin Laden Offers Insight into “The Business of Martyrdom”
  
• Lungs Respond to Hospital ventilator as if it Were an Infection
  
• Like a Transformer? Protein Unfolds and Refolds for New Function
  
• Some Harmful Effects of Light at Night Can Be Reversed, Study Finds
  
• IRVE-3: Inflatable Heat Shield a Splashing Success
  
• Cool stuff
  
• A medieval “Chronicle of Emperors” for the twenty-first century
  
• Aesop’s Fable unlocks how we think
  
• NASA and University Researchers Find a Clue to How Life Turned Left
  
• EXCELSIOR GONDOLA
  
• Caltech professor sees green energy in termite guts
  
• Deadly E. coli strain decoded
  
• What wakes me
  
• Airborne pollutants lead a double life
  
• Alcohol abuse after weight loss surgery?
  
• American Violence and Southern Culture
  
• Yale scientists find a way to make disease-causing proteins vulnerable to drugs
  
• Increased risk of ozone loss from convectively injected water vapor