Interested to know just exactly how cancer cells spread their terror? Well, you'll be getting to know and more. Researchers from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre and University of Toronto have found out the these tumor cells spread out by releasing "bubbles". Read more on their discovery in the full article.

There's a great deal of hype surrounding the upcoming James Cameron documentary which airs on the Discovery Channel. And why not? The date may mark your last day as a believer.

The documentary titled "The Lost Tomb of Jesus" seeks to establish that ossuaries excavated in Jerusalem belonged to a married Jesus, Mary Magdalene and quite possibly their "son", Judah. Some experts, however, are not convinced, calling the film "nonsense."

The Oscar-winning filmmaker Cameron and Canadian-Israeli journalist Simcha Jacobovici are the main forces behind the upcoming presentation. The documentary carries the same hype as "The Da Vinci Code" and both men are confident that their evidences will prove some points come March 4.

The excavation, contrary to popular assumptions, are not newly excavated. They were unearthed a decade ago in Jerusalem by Israeli archaeologist Amos Klooner and were discovered by Jacobovici only three years ago. Being the investigative reporter that he is, Jacobovici was captivated by the find and set out to do a deeper study.

The tomb allegedly contained bodies in ossuaries where the names "Jesus, Son of Joseph," Mary and "Judah son of Jesus" were inscribed. Jacobovici consulted a panel of experts to have some questions answered. He got DNA tests, statisticians, archaeologists and scholars on ancient texts to do the job. He came up with the following findings, which Cameron in turn described as "compelling."

1. DNA Tests - According to DNA experts consulted by Jacobovici, the bodies in the tomb of Jesus and Mary were not related by blood, eliminating the possibility that the Mary there is the mother of Jesus and leading to the notion that the two must have been married. There was no mention of findings on the tomb of Judah.
2. Ancient texts - the name "Mariamene" is inscribed in the ossuary of the woman, and according to the fifth-century script called "acts of Philip" the name was used interchangeably for Mary Magdalene.
3. Statistics- experts in the University of Toronto have calculated the possibility of the name combinations to coincide in the same grave. the result was 600:1.

All of these, claimed the journalist, are facts and said that the world needs to see this and called for a "scientific, academic, theological debate" to commence.

And commence it does over at Full Article. Head over there to see what the naysayers have to say in rebuttal.

Hemiplegia (or hemiphlegia) means one side of a patient's body is paralyzed or weaker than the other side. The trouble with trying to treat kids with hemiplegic palsy is they don't want to exercise their weaker limbs, and the result is that the weaker side becomes even more underdeveloped. In comes the solution: video games that force the patient to use both hands.

University of Toronto who made a video game therapy for kids with hemiplegia">William Li, a fourth-year engineering student at the University of Toronto, under the supervision of Professors Tom Chau and Darcy Fehlings, basically borrowed aspects of existing video games and created a set of fun, interactive challenges for children.

The kids have to activate the game by holding down a button using their "strong" limb while their "weak" limb interacts with a motion-sensing web camera to manipulate and solve challenges on the screen. (At least that's how the game was described; we have no idea what game William Li is playing in the picture we got from the University of Toronto site, although his professors certainly look like they like what they see.)

The kids don't know they're getting physical therapy. They just think they're playing a video game. An added bonus: this setup can easily be done at home, so kids can get their treatment in the comfort of their living rooms. How about a button-mashing fighting game on the Xbox 360 or PS3? Or a game that requires Nunchuck and Wii remote?

Patch Adams would be glad. In related news, what do you think about supporting Child's Play, the Seattle-based organization that gives games, books, and toys to sick kids?

By the way, the University of Toronto has six Nobel-Prize-winning graduates (more than any other Canadian University). And even though the U of T professors are only 7% of the population of professors in Canada, they get almost 25% of all Canadian national awards go to U of T professors. It's Canada's largest and most distinguished university.

Old school astronomy tells us solar systems are formed from large, lumpy cloud of cold gas and dust, possibly from a nearby supernova, that began to pull together under the force of its own gravity. Now University of Toronto researchers led by Professor Ray Jayawardhana say planetary nurseries can exist also around objects that are not much bigger than Jupiter.

These miniature versions of the solar system may circle planetary mass objects which are 100 times less massive than our sun. "Now that we've discovered these planetary mass objects with their own little infant planetary systems, the definition of the word 'planet' has blurred even more," says Jayawardhana.

Planetary mass objects or "planemos,"  have masses similar to those of extra-solar planets float freely through space. The team has identified six candidates, two of them having masses between five to 10 times that of Jupiter. Two others are 10 to 15 times Jupiter's mass. All four planemos are just a few million years old and are located in star-forming regions about 450 light-years from Earth. The planemos show infrared emission from dusty disks that may evolve into future miniature planetary systems.

In the another study two years ago, Jayawardhana and his colleagues discovered 2M1207, a young brown dwarf about 25 times the mass of Jupiter 170 light-years from Earth. The brown dwarf was known to be surrounded by a disk. These team has found evidence for a disk around the eight-Jupiter-mass companion as well. They think the pair probably formed together like a binary star system instead of the companion forming in a disk around the brown dwarf. Moreover, Jayawardhana says, smaller planets or moons could eventually form in the the disk around each one.

The two discoveries suggest objects not much more massive than Jupiter can forming the same way as stars and possibly accompanied by their own retinues of small planets. "The diversity of worlds out there is truly remarkable. Nature often seems more prolific than our imagination," says Jayawardhana