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Behold the science of engineering. LEGO engineering.

Forbidden Lego is a book by master builders Ulrik Pilegaard and Mike Dooley.

As a teaser, here’s a pdf of plans for building a … Read the rest “You’ll put an eye out.”

National Geographic reports on another Chinese river-dweller struggling to survive – the giant sturgeon, also known as the “underwater panda”:

Adult sturgeons,

We’ve been watching this thing for four centuries, and we only now noticed it had a tail, as Nature reports. A really long tail:

Astronomers have found an unexpected treat on a star

Nature eases chafing on a tectonic level:

Researchers drilling deep into the San Andreas fault in California report in today’s Nature the presence of talc inside a relatively sedate

Researchers Gunter Nimtz and Alfons Stahlhofen of the University of Koblenz have told New Scientist (and other sources) that they’ve broken the light barrier, sending photons … Read the rest “Speed of Light: BROKEN (in a teeny-tiny way)”

There’s been some press lately about studies that show a correlation between marijuana smoking and psychosis – as in, smoke dope, increase your risk of developing psychotic… Read the rest “Smoke ’em while the voices tell you it’s OK.”

PhysOrg blows our minds with the discovery that our skeletons are actually endocrine glands:

Karsenty and his colleagues had previously shown that leptin, a hormone released by fat cells,

Go outside tomorrow night and look up.

Look up!

Keep looking up!

Trust us on this one.

From New Scientist comes a fun story about prehistoric bacteria being brought back to life by meddling scientists:

Kay Bidle of Rutgers University in New Jersey, US, and his colleagues

Moller International, a company that’s been trying to market flying cars for a long while now, has finally made its breakthrough, reports LiveScience:

[I]t looks like flying saucer