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You really wanted to see it come back, didn’t you.

I sure did….… Read the rest “Space Boomerang: A Slight Return.”

You already knew this, but the BBC Science Desk reiterates that caffeine really is brain food:

“Caffeine appears to block several of the disruptive effects of cholesterol that make

New Scientist leaves us in no doubt: the platypus is not like other animals.

Wesley Warren at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, led the international team that sequenced the

New Scientist reveals an ugly, new problem from melting glaciers. They’re dosing penguins with DDT… and us with a whole bunch of other bygone pollutants:

The change means

New Scientist brings up the odd notion that our planet might be using invisible forces against us, with the recent discovery that geomagnetism triggers suicides:

Surprisingly, he also

LiveScience is skipping through the woods with news of legless lizards, horned toads and more things creeping out of an amazing new trove of animals in Brazil:

The clutch of suspected new

NASA is heading into the Sun:

NASA has tapped APL to develop the ambitious Solar Probe mission, which will study the streams of charged particles the sun hurls into space from a vantage point

LiveScience is on the line with a call about insect telephones. Please hold – this plant is busy:

When a subterranean insect takes up residence below a plant, it settles in to feast

The BBC has us imagining that sound as New Zealand researchers thaw a colossal squid:

“They’re incredibly rare – this is probably one of maybe six specimens ever brought

Scientific American closes in on the “Pioneer Anomaly” – the strange fact that the Pioneer deep space probes aren’t traveling at exactly the right speed. Researchers… Read the rest “Pioneer Anomaly: A Long-Distance Bill”

New Scientist has a gas with the latest alternative energy source, flammable ice.

…[I]t could be the world’s last great source of carbon-based fuel – assuming we can