“In a perverted twist of fate, cancer cells take advantage of this incredibly ancient survival strategy— the heat shock response— to help them survive despite the best efforts of our own natural defenses, and sophisticated therapeutics, to kill them."
"Over the last couple of decades, engineers have improved TCP's congestion control algorithms, leading to the creation of a number of different competing versions of the protocol, including Compound TCP, NewReno, BIC and TCP Cubic."
"While this is a positive start, it is very early in the multi-stepped process to characterize the performance of the reaction wheels and to determine if one could return to operation."
“People don’t like having their skin zapped all the time. It will be an effective technology if it is used to present information intermittently and with high-potency.”
“With an aging population in the US, injuries and degenerative conditions are subsequently on the rise. As a result, there is an increased demand for therapies that can repair damaged tissues."
"Countries around the world are collecting genetic material from millions of citizens in the name of fighting crime and terrorism — and, according to critics, heading into uncharted ethical terrain."
"We have looked for evidence of the second moon and we have not seen any of the suggested characteristics of the internal structure of the Moon that would be consistent with the idea of a second companion"
"This isn't a 'climate model.' It is an analysis formed by taking the output of six different climate models, and analyzing that in a way that allows Emanuel to estimate the number and intensity of [tropical cyclones] given the different background conditions"