Perfect for androids or pacifist vampires… maybe. But Science Daily says artificial blood could save plenty of ordinary human lives:

The reason for this failure, according to Professor Chris Cooper, a biochemist and blood substitute expert at the University of Essex, lies in hemoglobin, the red molecule inside blood cells that carries oxygen around the body. Outside the protective [...]

You, yes YOU, dear reader, can be published as a paleontologist. That’s what Discovery News says about the Open Dinosaur Project, which is looking for a little bit of help from an awful lot of people:

The Open Dinosaur Project’s purpose is to put all these measurements into one place — to make a master list of sorts. By [...]

Science Daily bends my head with their report on scientists who’ve tied lasers into knots:

Optical vortices can be created with holograms which direct the flow of light. In this work, the team designed holograms using knot theory — a branch of abstract mathematics inspired by knots that occur in shoelaces and rope. Using these specially designed holograms they [...]

This is not new science, but it’s certainly new to me. Over at the Mad Science Experiments site, there’s an article describing the meeting between the three men who thought they were God in an Ypsilanti psychiatric institute:

Rokeach hoped that the experiment would not only reveal more about people’s internal belief system but also suggest new therapeutic possibilities for [...]

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This is the US Navy’s airship Los Angeles, the most successful of America’s rigid-body airships, engaging in a maneuver that proved dirigibles like these could be fueled without landing.

It was also designed (sort of) for use as an airborne aircraft carrier. Planes, you see, are awfully vulnerable on the ground, until they actually get up and [...]

SciAm bursts the myth that testosterone is the source of male aggression. No, the truth is far worse. It’s the thing that turns men into hot doggers and showoffs:

To test the idea, the research team gave 121 women either 0.5 milligrams of testosterone or a placebo and had them play an ultimatum bargaining game. With real money on [...]

BBC dives into the future of computing, when we replace cold, hard silicon with a strong brew of liquid thinking machines:

What distinguishes the current project is that it will make use of stable “cells” featuring a coating that forms spontaneously, similar to the walls of our own cells, and uses chemistry to accomplish the signal processing similar to [...]

Sorry, but I just can’t outdo Wired’s headline on this one: Pentagon Scientists Target Iran’s Nuclear Molemen:

Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, apparently takes a personal and close interest in tunnels — he’s a founder member of the Iranian Tunneling Association. Many of those facilities were built as underground shelters in the aftermath of the 1987 “War of the [...]

Jonathan D. Moreno, writing in the Science Progress blog, takes note of the latest signs of the new Eastern superpower’s growth. China’s not just an economic powerhouse, but is on its way up in science, too:

Both the quality as well as the quantity of Chinese science is rapidly improving. Their system enables focused investment and rapid adjustment [...]