HuffPost Science: Hypersonic Craft.. Meteor Shower Peaks.. Mysterious Orbs

May 5, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Scramjet Sets Record Before Plunge The U.S. military launched an experimental hypersonic aircraft on its swan song test flight Wednesday (May 1), accelerating the craft to more than five times the speed of sound in the longest-ever mission for a vehicle of its kind.  Continue reading... Meteor Shower Peaking NOW Hundreds Of Mysterious Orbs Found Under Ancient Temple Mental Health Institute To Drop Use Of Psychiatry 'Bible' Tiny Baby Dinosaur Discovered In Remote Region Alan Alda Calls On Scientists To Cut It Out Scramjet Sets Record Before Plunging Into Ocean Alan Alda Calls On Scientists To Cut It Out COOL: Computer Giant's 'Star Trek' Tribute Is SUPER Tiny Facial Hair Study Reveals Look Women Like Most Tiny Baby Dinosaur Discovered In Remote Region WATCH: Deep-Freezing For Life After Death KENNETH PREWITT Is Any Science Safe? The United States has benefitted enormously from a government/science partnership carefully designed by Congress over many decades. There have been bumps along the way; it is challenging to reconcile scientific autonomy with Congress's responsibility for public funds. Continue reading... JEFF MACKEIGAN PH.D Thinking Outside the Box to Make Significant Advances in Disease Research Even though basic science is vital for clinical development of new medicines, research as a whole still needs to find a way to rise above incremental improvements and "think outside the box." Innovative and unorthodox approaches are the tickets to major advances. Continue reading... ROBERT C. GREEN, MD, MPH ACMG Recommendations Are a Controversial but Necessary Step Towards Genomic Medicine Doctors don't ask for your consent to look over the entire x-ray or make a note of the suspicious lesion. And they certainly don't sit you down before every exam, x-ray or lab test and have a long discussion about all the thousands of possible incidental findings that might show up. Continue reading... ALLEN FRANCES Don't People in Chronic Pain Have Enough to Deal With? DSM-5 represents a wholesale, imperial medicalization of normality. So many new and untested diagnoses; so many reduced thresholds for the old ones. Pretty soon everyone will have a diagnosis and many will have a whole bunch of them. Continue reading... MICHAEL LARGO Celebrating Animals We try to imagine how animals see the world, but even our pets are mysterious to us. However, understanding the way their eyes work, or their sense of smell, for example, it helps us to appreciate them even more and adds a measure of empathy, if nothing else. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003