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PhysOrg brightens our day with a fun new invention that’s actually rather old-fashioned. It’s a gravity-powered lamp.

The LED lamp, named Gravia, is an acrylic column a little

ScienceDaily reports on new findings from the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, who say that chimpanzee brains are really close to human brains as far as the parts that do the talking… Read the rest “Chimps are Wired for Words.”

PopSci takes to the sea with Japanese sailor Ken-ichi Horie, 69, who has harnessed wave power to make his new ship go:

At the heart of the record-setting bid is the Suntory Mermaid II, a three-ton

BBC News is raving about the discovery of the largest marine reptile ever to swim on Earth – a creature powerful enough to snap a car in half with its jaws:

The Jurassic-era leviathan

Discovery assures us that space contines to be utterly inexplicable – at least as far as that famous, bizarre, permanent hurricane on the King of Planets:

Numerical modeling of the

BBC News reports on a new breakthrough from South Korea. A biotech firm named RNL Bio is cloning a pit bull named Booger:

RNL Bio is charging the woman, from California, $150,000 (£76,000)

How I resisted calling this “Eye in the Sky” I don’t know. But yeah, Universe Today is all excited about SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy), … Read the rest “A Flying Telescope!”

That’s what they’re doing at Los Alamos National Laboratory, according to the New York Times. Zap CO2 and H2O from the atmosphere with electricity and the air itself becomes… Read the rest “Making Oil Out of Thin Air.”

So, Wired’s Danger Room has an interesting take on the Pentagon’s response to that crashing spy satellite we mentioned here not too long ago. See, just in case the fuel tank … Read the rest “Star Wars Practice Run?”

From the AFP newswire, a new blossoming of interest in robots built for sex:

Called Honeydolls, the lifesize figures are made from surgical-grade silicone and resin, and are equipped with