Man, what, are teddy bears next? The Lancet reports on a survey of studies that, combined, seem to show that night lights are causing cancer (registration required, but free):
… Read the rest “Night Lights Are Killing Us?”Among the
LiveScience notices something odd that’ll have some hard-minded skeptics practicing their eyebrow raises. Medical magnets – one of the old staples of alternative medicine… Read the rest “Health Magnet.”
Human anatomy explained as an allegory for astrology, or vice versa. From the collection of the Musée Condé, Chantilly, France.
New Scientist reports on Japanese space scientists creating origami that’s out of this world:
… Read the rest “The King of Paper Airplanes.”The origami space plane will be a similar design, Suzuki says, but only about 20 centimetres
The Telegraph reports on the strange findings of Iain Douglas Hamilton and his colleagues, who appear to have discovered evidence that elephants are evolving smaller tusks due to ivory… Read the rest “Elephants evolve smaller tusks.”
SONG: “You’ve Got Power” (To download: right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “PopSci’s Best of What’s New 2007:… Read the rest “SONG: You’ve Got Power”
Nature discusses new findings about how we’ll all get superpowers, like heat vision and wings, just by breathing! Well, what they really said was that air pollution mutates sperm… Read the rest “That stuff you’re breathing.”
New Scientist reports on a frankly bizarre palm tree just discovered by a family picnicking in Madagascar:
… Read the rest “It flowers itself to death”“It’s a species that is so significant from all sorts of perspectives,
A common dragonfly as seen in an uncommon way by Wikimedia Commons user "Aka."
The Journal of Ethnopharmacology has a survey of a subculture that could turn addiction therapy on its ear – an informal alliance of people using the psychedelic drug ibogaine to … Read the rest “Drug for cold turkey.”
The New York Times unveils the creation of the world’s first globally activated monkey-guided robots:
… Read the rest “Next step: the monkey cyborg revolution!”On Thursday, an alert and ready-to-work Idoya stepped onto her treadmill
That’s right. AP is reporting on an announcement from the American Astronomical Society that the universe is more violent and awe-inspiring than previously thought:
… Read the rest “It’s an odd universe.”The research
Dude.
What if, like…
…like, the WHOLE UNIVERSE was just…
…like, made up, maaan? Like it was all VIRTUAL REALITY, man? (asks the latest New Scientist):
… Read the rest “You’re not real”Brian Whitworth
ScienceDaily has news from researchers in Los Angeles who found that a single injection with a drug that’s already used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis reverses Alzheimer’s… Read the rest “Turn the Brain Back On”
This is an Environmental Protection Agency photograph from the Great Lakes Image Collection, showing green algae up close.
Phytoplankton like this makes up the base of the food chain –… Read the rest “Science Art: Pediastrum boryanum”
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