Month: January 2008

In case you were wondering, gold atoms are cool.

New Scientist stops the clock with timely news about skin. Apparently, skin is pretty deep – it’s somehow tied to the brain as part of our internal clock:

“Knowing that skin

Man, what, are teddy bears next? The Lancet reports on a survey of studies that, combined, seem to show that night lights are causing cancer (registration required, but free):

Among the

LiveScience notices something odd that’ll have some hard-minded skeptics practicing their eyebrow raises. Medical magnets – one of the old staples of alternative medicine… Read the rest “Health Magnet.”

New Scientist reports on Japanese space scientists creating origami that’s out of this world:

The origami space plane will be a similar design, Suzuki says, but only about 20 centimetres

The Telegraph reports on the strange findings of Iain Douglas Hamilton and his colleagues, who appear to have discovered evidence that elephants are evolving smaller tusks due to ivory… Read the rest “Elephants evolve smaller tusks.”

Nature discusses new findings about how we’ll all get superpowers, like heat vision and wings, just by breathing! Well, what they really said was that air pollution mutates sperm… Read the rest “That stuff you’re breathing.”

New Scientist reports on a frankly bizarre palm tree just discovered by a family picnicking in Madagascar:

“It’s a species that is so significant from all sorts of perspectives,

The Journal of Ethnopharmacology has a survey of a subculture that could turn addiction therapy on its ear – an informal alliance of people using the psychedelic drug ibogaine to … Read the rest “Drug for cold turkey.”

The New York Times unveils the creation of the world’s first globally activated monkey-guided robots:

On Thursday, an alert and ready-to-work Idoya stepped onto her treadmill

That’s right. AP is reporting on an announcement from the American Astronomical Society that the universe is more violent and awe-inspiring than previously thought:

The research

Dude.

What if, like…

…like, the WHOLE UNIVERSE was just…

…like, made up, maaan? Like it was all VIRTUAL REALITY, man? (asks the latest New Scientist):

Brian Whitworth