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Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca-University of Oxford have begun studying whether their COVID-19 vaccines can be modifiedBoth shots have been linked to a risk of blood clots along with a low platelet-count condition known as thrombocytopeniaScientists hope to identify the causes behind the blood clots and maybe re-engineer the shots by next yearIn the U.S., J&J's vaccine has been linked to 0.3 cases of rare blood clots per 100,000 doses and AstraZeneca's jab linked to 1-2 cases per 100,000It comes one day after it was revealed the FDA is adding a new warning to the label of J&J's vaccine due...

Happy Sunday! Ready to have your mind blown?By mixing ultra-bright projectors and advanced facial tracking with some damned fine visual design, these guys are able to use their faces as a canvas some truly wild work. ==>>>Watch on as they morph from human, to alien, to cheetah, to robot overlord on the fly.<<<==So how does it work? To oversimplify it: an array of cameras tracks the dots on their faces, akin to the way Hollywood motion capture systems work. They then take some truly amazing texture/animation work and digitally morph it around a model of each guy’s face — essentially...

WILLIAMSBURG, Virginia (Reuters) – Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Saturday told lawmakers that financial institutions that receive government assistance will have to make loan modifications and meet other new standards, according to Democratic sources. Geithner, during a briefing with House of Representatives' Democrats, was asked about a New York Times report that the Obama administration would not require banks to increase their lending as part of revamped government effort to restore stability to the financial industry. According to the sources, who asked not to be identified, Geithner said: "We are not doing what they wrote ... Institutions that get assistance...

I've made available nine free "MacGyverism" science project videos online and am sponsoring an Energy-saving competition.

WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats opposed to John R. Bolton asked one of his GOP supporters to be a go-between in their pursuit of information that could break an impasse over his nomination to be U.N. ambassador. At the same time, a Democratic lawmaker said the Bush administration has made overtures to try to get the nomination to a final vote. "The White House did make some proposals which didn't really do it, but they're reaching out a little bit," Sen. Barbara Boxer (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., told reporters Thursday. Democrats have demanded to know more about communications intercepted by...