Nature wades into the controversy, asking scientists what would really happen if we killed all the mosquitoes:
… Read the rest “The mosquito conundrum: Why not kill ’em all?”A stronger argument for keeping mosquitoes might be found if they provide
I have a vague memory of writing a story back in the 1990s about researchers trying to figure out how to use lethal cone snail venom for medical purposes. Well, EurekAlert says they finally… Read the rest “Snail spit kills pain.”
This is more covering-the-coverage than flogging a new discovery, but the New York Times is keeping tabs on the process of turning pond scum into an industrial fuel source:
… Read the rest “Super-scum. Again.”Foreign genes
There’s a whole shovel-load of politics wrapped up in this New Scientist report on the evolutionary effects of poverty on human reproduction:
… Read the rest “Teen motherhood: Evolutionary strategy.”There is no reason to view the poor as
… Read the rest “Science Art: Venus and the Ark, by Anne Sexton”The missile to launch a missile
was almost a secret.
Two male Ph.D.’s were picked
and primed to fill it
and one hundred
carefully counted insects,
three almost new snakes,
coiled in a cube,
SONG: “nobody else can hear”. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “Super squid sex organ discovered”… Read the rest “SONG: nobody else can hear”
Unfortunately, as NPR reveals, we’re not talking about the kind that’s still safely underground:
… Read the rest “How NASA finds oil.”The NASA Earth Observatory explains that since ocean waters are never perfectly
MAPS has published a study confirming that MDMA really does work in treating post-traumatic stress disorder:
… Read the rest “X in uniform.”Participants treated with a combination of MDMA and psychotherapy saw clinically
So New Scientist recommends in a new report on an artificial gut that allows robots to become self-sustaining:
… Read the rest “If you love a sewage-eating robot, set it free.”[F]ood-munching robots have been demonstrated in the past, often generating
New Scientist teaches you how to make yourself synaesthetic:
… Read the rest “Read in color!”Olympia Colizoli at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and colleagues… gave seven volunteers a novel
This image – a composite view of, well, everything – was made by the European Space Agency’s Planck Telescope, an orbiting observatory assigned to… Read the rest “Science Art: The Microwave Sky, Planck Telescope, 2010”
New York Times quotes research that proves exercise won’t save you. It’s the sitting that kills you:
… Read the rest “Get up. Really.”…[S]cientists from the University of South Carolina and the Pennington
New York Times gets to the fundamentals of the strange world of microbes-as-medicine:
… Read the rest “To cure my wife, you want to transplant my *what*?”“She was just dwindling down the drain, and she probably would have died,” Dr. [Alexander] Khoruts
BBC recently covered the salacious details when scientists discovered a squid’s enormous sexual organ:
… Read the rest “Super squid penis. (No, this is not spam.)”The male squid’s sexual organ is almost as long as its whole body,
BBC News reports that antidepressant runoff is encouraging shrimp to go toward the white light:
… Read the rest “Prozac pollution and shrimp suicide.”The researchers say this causes the shrimps to forget to hide from predators and, as a result,
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