Posted on December 27th, 2008 by Good Mood Admin
Filed under Medical, Science |

The metal Osmium, which was never part of the anti cancer fight, is now being tested at Warwick university, UK for cancer treatment. The metal is closley related to Platinum, which is already in use for cancer treatment for some cancer types. The benefits of the Osmium is that it can be used for more types of cancer, it is cheaper than Platinum and it can be combined with Platinum treatment as well. In addition, Platinum is a toxic metal which cause many side effects and body cells can develop resistant toward it.
Read the full story (warwick.ac.uk)
Posted on December 27th, 2008 by Good Mood
Filed under Animals, Nature |
Coral reefs of Indonesia that where damaged by a tsunami four years ago have shown surprising improvement and rapid growth of new corals. Also reefs damaged before the tsunami were recovering thanks to abandoning destructive fishing techniques and even transplanting corals.
Read the full story (BBC)
Posted on December 27th, 2008 by Good Mood Admin
Filed under Just Being Nice |

A woman from California brought home a box of crackers and found inside it an envelope with $10,000. She called the police and heard that probably this money was drug related. It was later discovered that an old woman returned a box of crackers and later came back searching for it, as she mistakenly returned a box with her life savings in it, since she does not trust bank she felt this option is safer.
Read the full story (Yahoo)