I laughed when I saw an upcoming conference on aging was to be held in Miami - really, can you think of a better place?

Anyway, I was following a related link and discovered the story of wrinkled bats - not the leathery-skinned, bingo-playing ones living in Florida, but actual bats with the cutest little smooshed faces. I think these deserve a spot on Josh's second cutest babies ever series.

Ahh, the annual list that makes you feel old, and makes you nostalgic for the good old days of the late 1990s when cell phones were still non-ubiquitous.

The Beloit College Mindset List is a list of cultural touchstones that have shaped the lives and reference frames of incoming college freshman. These kids were born in 1991 (that hurts a little), the BCML says.

A new era in painkillers has officially started, as FDA approved King Pharmaceuticals' extended-release morphine drug Embeda.

This is a story that has been several months in the making, and the public health potential is huge. When extended-release morphine originally came out, they were desperately needed for chronic pain patients (like those with cancer). The problem with such drugs, like OxyContin (oxycodone), is that they were easily abused. Several drug companies have been working on tamper-resistant XR pain drugs, and now the first has crossed the finish line.

British start-up Novacem has developed a "carbon-negative" cement, meaning it absorbs more carbon dioxide over its life cycle than it emits.

Cement is a big ol' polluter - with an annual production of more than 2.5 billion tons, Reuters says, conventional "Portland" cement is responsible for an estimated 5 percent of global CO2
emissions, more than the airline industry.

People who are completely paralyzed due to illness or trauma are getting help communicating with a new technology that connects their brains to a computer, CBS reports on 60 Minutes. In the future, brain computer interface, or BCI, may restore movement to paralyzed people and allow amputees to move bionic limbs.


Courtesy: Brown University