Science is Learning to Prevent or Even Reverse Graying Hair



It's long been a fact of life that if we are lucky enough to grow old, our hair will either turn gray or fall out. Or both. In recent years, the stigma of having gray hair is not as dire as it used to be, and gray hair has become kind of chic among young people. This shift ironically coincides with new research that shows why hair turns gray, and how we can stop it from doing so. Further medical research shows that hair that has already turned gray can, in some cases, start to grow in color again.

Fortunately, most people already know a shortcut to covering gray hair, or changing one's hair color completely. It comes in a bottle and you can even do it at home, as I have off and on since I was a teenager. Now that my hair is partially white, I have expanded my palette to include a range of shockingly unnatural hues. But I can see the value in this research, as it contributes to our understanding of how our bodies work at the cellular level. -via Geeks Are Sexy


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I would have loved to be at the meeting where they discussed a need for a autonomous human-eating robot.

I swear, it's like these people have never seen any science fiction film. They could have at least watched Terminator 3 a few years back.
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Yeah. I try not to be an anti-science guy, running around screaming the Apocalypse is upon us, but HOLY $#&@ING CRAP! I mean, what the hell are they honestly thinking? It's like they're playing mind games with us at this point.
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@redphone

I think they should be able to... I think the thing about "biomass" is that you'd have to be decomposing first before it can harvest the energy. An unconscious injured soldier isn't decomposing enough for it to harvest any energy.
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I looked this up, and the maker of this robot, Robotic Technology Inc. (RTI) have a press release concerning this project.

They claim it is strictly a vegetarian robot.

They're pullin' our chains. haha
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This is just one of the many developing energy resources for the future robots. Alternatives are fuel cells, chemically powered artificial muscles, solar etc...
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