Month: February 2008

Discover raises a further warning about the rapidly approaching obsolescence of humanity. We’ve now created robots that are evolving… and learning how to deceive:

Dario

Actually, he’d be a very, very old Peking Man indeed. Reuters recently carried a story about some very old bones found in China:

An almost complete human skull fossil that could date

Remember the origami space plane?

Well, Japan’s astronauts are doing it again, space-travel.com reports, with one putting himself through special training to throw the first … Read the rest “Space Boomerang – will it return?”

Yep. The Environmental Graffiti blog (among other sources) is pointing out that, biologicially speaking, the testicle is on the way to joining the appendix. Men are no longer necessary… Read the rest “Men meet obsolescence.”

Science Daily reveals that blue-eyed people really are special – they’re all related to each other:

New research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor.

The Daily Telegraph has a fascinating story about an accidental neurological discovery. While trying to “switch off” an obese man’s desire to overeat, neurologists… Read the rest “Memory on tap.”

Nature makes me nostalgic for the 70s, when a young boy’s fancy was caught by tales of Skylab hurtling down to Earth with immense destructive power… and now, once again, we’re… Read the rest “It’s wrong to wish on space hardware.”

EETimes.com, the online news magazine for electrical engineers, recently published a bizarre little musing in the form of a study linking electrical engineering aptitude with Islamic… Read the rest “Engineers of Jihad?”

Science Daily reports on researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig who discovered that McDonald’s makes us supermen:

The researchers fed laboratory mice one of three diets: