Month: August 2007

Go outside tomorrow night and look up.

Look up!

Keep looking up!

Trust us on this one.

From New Scientist comes a fun story about prehistoric bacteria being brought back to life by meddling scientists:

Kay Bidle of Rutgers University in New Jersey, US, and his colleagues

Moller International, a company that’s been trying to market flying cars for a long while now, has finally made its breakthrough, reports LiveScience:

[I]t looks like flying saucer

Discover lifts the veil on unusual nocturnal behavior – the phenomenon of sleep eating:

Except for the trail of crumbs and gooey messes that confront her in the morning—and a nauseous

New Scientist on the dawn of the Humortron 3000:

Now Julia Taylor and Lawrence Mazlack of the University of Cincinnati in Ohio have built a computer program or “bot” that is

Kevin Beck at ScienceBlogs shares some news published on PLoS by researchers from France’s University of Bordeaux, who found that sweet things can be more addictive than cocaine… Read the rest “Gimme more sugar! MORE!”

Nature reports on the latest way we’re fighting invasive exotic species… by changing the girls into boys:

In 2004, alerted to Florida’s problems with invasive species,

Well, we knew about robot dogs and we’ve heard about robot soldiers – but unless you were paying close attention, you might not have heard about the new robot dog soldiers:

“By

SciAm’s news blog reveals the Simpsonization of cosmology:

I emailed Kachru, one of the most prominent younger researchers working on string theory, to get the back-story. Here’s