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A breaking development by researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia, originally published in Cancer Research: a new chemotherapy drug, T100, will begin human testing in 2015 and could fundamentally alter the way cancer is treat. That's because this one targets the structure of cancerous cells, causing them to self-destruct while healthy cells remain intact.
A private hatchery in New Mexico has been linked to over 300 cases of salmonella, according to an August 19th statement by the New Mexico Department of Health.
In New Jersey, the reelection battle between incumbent Governor Chris Christie (R) and state Senator Barbara Buono (D) is tightening, albeit not by much. According to a Monmouth University/Asbury Park Press poll, Christie's lead is down the 56% to 36% percent over Bruno, a twenty-point margin that, should it hold, would represent a landslide victory. However, according to the same polling group, Christie had a 30 point advantage a month ago (61% to 31%) as of one month ago. So in a month, his lead has been cut by a third.
Still, he remains largely in control of the race - and an early frontrunner for the GOP's Presidential nomination in 2016 - because of his ability to shore up the traditional Republican base (white men) while also leaning into the much-coveted Latino demographic.
The new clock, referred to as a ytterbium optical lattice clock, can measure a second to the precision of one part in 1018. Put one way, that means it'll measure the second exactly the same up to the eighteenth decimal place.
The Comptroller's race in New York City may be turning into a blowout, with formerly disgraced Governor Eliot Spitzer opening up at 19-point lead over Manhattan Burrough President Scott Stringer in the Democratic primary, according to the latest Quinnipiac poll, released August 14th.
Tickets have gone on sale for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, with soccer fans the world over getting their first chance to grab a spot for the soccer tournament's long-awaited return to Latin America. Since Tuesday, fans are now able apply for tickets on the FIFA website.
Tickets will range in price from $90 for first-round matches to $990 for the final at Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, reports the BBC. For Brazilians over the age of 60, local students, and members of certain social welfare programs, tickets will be available for as little as $23.
The divide between the right wing and the left over immigration reform has been fraught for years, with Democrats demanding a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers (i.e. illegal immigrants who came to the states as children) and Republicans expressing anxiety about the porousness of the US's southern border with Mexico and the stress an influx of new citizens could put on an already struggling economy. Now, with the passage of the gang of eight immigration reform bill, political allegiances are being redrawn.
A new study of 160-million year old fossilized remains found in China was published in Science, revealing new details on mammals and their relationship to Earth's history.
According to the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), climate change could cause sea levels to rise by up to three feet by 2100, creating potential disaster areas in some of the world's most densely populated cities including (but not limited to): New York, Miami, New Orleans, London, Shanghai, Venice and Sydney.
Sometimes two small jumps are better than one big leap.
That's the wisdom around the HIV Cure in 2013, as a few outlier cases of cured patients and leveling-off numbers of new infectiosn indicate a sunnier outlook as the world continues to combat the disease.
New York City dark horse mayoral candidate John Liu announced his support for the legalization of recreational marijuana last Wednesday, potentially re-igniting a conversation about the role the drug has in the city and state moving forward.
The New York City mayoral race is getting tighter at the top as the list of candidates thins down in the lead up to the September primary, according a series of polls released last week from NBC/Marist/Wall Street Journal and Quinnipiac.
The calls are coming in for Mayor Bob Filner to resign. Most recently and prominently, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi took to twitter to admonish the mayor, tweeting that: "Mayor Filner is out of rehab, he should be out of the Mayor's Office - should not subject San Diegans to pain & expense of a recall."
Area 51, the infamous remote patch of desert in Southern Nevada, was declassified today by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and George Washington University's National Securities Archive. Long synonymous amongst conspiracy theorists with alien spacecraft and government cover-ups, the documentation on the site reveals a far blander reality. The site was nothing more than a testing ground for Lockheed U-2 surveillance planes.
Tropical storm season is heating up.
Currently, there are two tropical storms that may make landfall in the United States, according to meteorologists at AccuWeather. The most immediate threat seems to come from an area in the Caribbean between Cuba and Central America, where meteorologists see a forming system potentially making landfall on the Gulf Coast between Louisiana and Florida. Other models see a front moving off the coast of the United States, pushing the storm down into Central America. Whatever the case may be, some rain could douse the southeast with flash flooding by the weekend.
