Bad choices and birth control.
LiveScience makes clear that sometimes, contraception isn’t the best decision. Or, well, doesn’t help you make the best decisions… because birth control pills befuddle… Read the rest “Bad choices and birth control.”
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The plausibly deniable death ray.
The great thing about laser weapons, New Scientist says, isn’t just that you can fry your enemy from miles away. You can also shrug your shoulders and say, “No, really, I didn’t… Read the rest “The plausibly deniable death ray.”
*More* spouses?
New Scientist has just given me stress-induced palpitations with their finding that the more wives, the longer-lived the man:
… Read the rest “*More* spouses?”After accounting for socioeconomic differences, men aged
Vegetarian spiders. Like panthers.
Bug-watchers at the 12th International Behavioral Ecology Congress have brought the world’s attention (and the attention of the fine bloggers at Greenupgrader.com) to a previously… Read the rest “Vegetarian spiders. Like panthers.”
Better than Shinola.
Dailytech.com is smiling (or is it just gas?) over the latest trick we’ve gotten E. coli to perform. Geneticists have altered the food-poisoning germ so that it excretes diesel fuel… Read the rest “Better than Shinola.”
Science Art: Spitzer Infrared Launch
The Spitzer Space Telescope being sent on its way aboard a huge, hot Delta rocket, as a honeybee might have seen it.
… Read the rest “Science Art: Spitzer Infrared Launch”When Spitzer launched Monday, 25 August 2003 at 1:35:39 a.m. EDT from Cape
Spicy bugs.
If you like your food a little spicy, EurekAlert.org might whet your appetite in a crawly kind of way… because hot peppers owe everything to bugs:
… Read the rest “Spicy bugs.”The spiciness is a defense mechanism
I no caveman? Unk!
Wired burst bubble! Science-head say me no Neanderthal no how:
… Read the rest “I no caveman? Unk!”Scientists who sequenced the mitochondrial DNA of a 38,000-year-old Neanderthal returned no evidence of ancestral interbreeding
The Lost World.
National Geographic takes us to a lost world, hidden under Antarctic ice for 14 million years:
… Read the rest “The Lost World.”Researchers found the freeze-dried remains of mosses, algae, small crustaceans, and beetles
Windless City Power
So much for rooftop turbines – unless you’re on a farm. A new study from the UK Carbon Trust, which appeared on the CleanTechnica.com blog, found that windmills do more harm … Read the rest “Windless City Power”
It’s all magic to me.
While peeking at a Special Secret Magical Message Board, I came across this “Perspective” piece from Nature Reviews Neuroscience on magic. Specifically, it’s an … Read the rest “It’s all magic to me.”
Science Art: “The Wright Brothers’ Airplane” The New Students Reference Work
From The New Students Reference Work (1914), edited by Chandler B. Beach, associate editor Frank Morton McMurry.
Scanned by Wikimedia Commons user LA2.
Unintentional twins.
The Los Angeles Times recently reported on some trouble with DNA testing. No, it wasn’t a new OJ Simpson-style courtroom blunder, but the discovery that some of us are more genetically… Read the rest “Unintentional twins.”
Bang! Bang! You’re dead!
New Scientist draws a bead on a new kind of gun – a smart killing machine that fires bullets like toy rockets:
… Read the rest “Bang! Bang! You’re dead!”Lund and Company Invention, a toy design studio based near Chicago, makes
Lights out.
So, LabSpaces.net confirms what we’ve all been feeling after those long, late nights. Sleeplessness causes power failures in your brain:
… Read the rest “Lights out.”The research team, led by Michael Chee,