News tagged with vampires
Pete Townshend brands iTunes a 'digital vampire'
(AP) -- The Who's Pete Townshend on Monday branded Apple Inc.'s iTunes a "digital vampire" that profits from music without supporting the artists who create it.
Oct 31, 2011 |
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Fighting fire with fire: 'Vampire' bacteria has potential as living antibiotic
A vampire-like bacteria that leeches onto specific other bacteria – including certain human pathogens – has the potential to serve as a living antibiotic for a range of infectious diseases, a new study indicates.
Oct 31, 2011 |
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Can we share vampires' appetite for synthetic blood?
Vampires on the True Blood television series are already enjoying the advantages of synthetic blood. While this may seem to be only the imagination on the big screen, the true benefits of blood manufactured from embryonic ...
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Oct 18, 2011 |
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Long before Halloween became popular, ancient Greeks and Romans enjoyed good scary stories
Centuries before movie and television audiences thrilled to tales of werewolves, vampires and wizards and Halloween became the second biggest celebration of the year, the ancient Greeks and Romans were spinning ...
Oct 17, 2011 |
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Heat-detecting molecules steer vampires to blood
Scientists have known for years that when vampire bats tear through an animal's skin with their razor-sharp teeth, their noses guide them to the best spots – where a precise bite will strike a vein and ...
Aug 03, 2011 |
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Android phones to pit vampires against slayers
Facial recognition startup Viewdle on Wednesday began letting Android smartphone users see which of the people around them are vampires and which are vampire slayers.
Jun 22, 2011 |
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Vampire-inspired blood thinner begins new round of trials
(PhysOrg.com) -- Just in time for Halloween, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health physicians have begun testing an experimental blood thinner that mimics a chemical in vampire-bat saliva.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 29, 2010 |
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Researchers to study anthropogenic drivers of rabies in vampire bats
(PhysOrg.com) -- Throughout Latin America, from Mexico to Argentina, Common vampire bats transmit infectious diseases such as rabies to animals and humans. Factors that influence the spread of disease within bat populations ...
Sep 21, 2010 |
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Twilight, Eclipse -- How vampires have become modern day gothic Buddhas.
(PhysOrg.com) -- With the third instalment of the wildly successful vampire franchise Twilight, a University of Western Sydney expert says the series and the rise in vampirism highlights the growing phenomenon of new spiritualities ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 05, 2010 |
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Vampire mania a perpetual fad in pop culture
(PhysOrg.com) -- They're everywhere. Like knee boots, capes and cloaks, vampires are trendy again. In books and movies, on magazine covers, TV and the Internet -- it's hard to avoid blood suckers in the media lately.
Oct 27, 2009 |
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Vampires and Zombies: No mere pop culture trend
(PhysOrg.com) -- Vampires and zombies, both of which became a popular phenomenon in Victorian Britain, are all the rage. Temple English Professor Peter Logan believes this is no mere pop culture trend, but ...
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Bizarre walking bat has ancient heritage
A bizarre New Zealand bat that is as much at home walking four-legged on the ground as winging through the air had an Australian ancestor 20 million years ago with the same rare ability, a new study has found.
Jul 29, 2009 |
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Italy dig unearths female 'vampire' in Venice
(AP) -- An archaeological dig near Venice has unearthed the 16th-century remains of a woman with a brick stuck between her jaws - evidence, experts say, that she was believed to be a vampire. The unusual ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 14, 2009 |
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Clinical Trial Uses Bat Saliva Enzyme for Stroke Treatment
(PhysOrg.com) -- Vampires aren't usually cast in the role of saviors, but stroke experts are hoping a blood thinner that mimics a chemical in vampire saliva will help save brain cells in stroke patients.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 30, 2008 |
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