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Discover lifts the veil on unusual nocturnal behavior – the phenomenon of sleep eating:

Except for the trail of crumbs and gooey messes that confront her in the morning—and a nauseous

New Scientist on the dawn of the Humortron 3000:

Now Julia Taylor and Lawrence Mazlack of the University of Cincinnati in Ohio have built a computer program or “bot” that is

Kevin Beck at ScienceBlogs shares some news published on PLoS by researchers from France’s University of Bordeaux, who found that sweet things can be more addictive than cocaine… Read the rest “Gimme more sugar! MORE!”

Nature reports on the latest way we’re fighting invasive exotic species… by changing the girls into boys:

In 2004, alerted to Florida’s problems with invasive species,

Well, we knew about robot dogs and we’ve heard about robot soldiers – but unless you were paying close attention, you might not have heard about the new robot dog soldiers:

“By

SciAm’s news blog reveals the Simpsonization of cosmology:

I emailed Kachru, one of the most prominent younger researchers working on string theory, to get the back-story. Here’s

Via Wired’s Danger Room comes news from the US Army’s Future Combat Systems.

They need a new name because we’re already living in the future:

The Army has decided that

Discover raises a slippery space question… as if NASA didn’t have enough scandal to deal with lately:

When missions lasted no more than a few weeks at a time, discretion was

From New Scientist comes news of the womb-on-a-chip:

Fujii’s team has created a “lab on a chip” that is 2 millimetres across and 0.5 millimetres high, in which up to 20

New Scientist reports that predatory jumbo squid have returned to California’s coast… and may be there to stay:

Ferocious, pack-feeding jumbo squid have invaded waters

Nature plumbs the depths of one of the most mysterious processes in medicine.

Researchers have found that the placebo effect – when “fake” medicine creates real results… Read the rest “Pleasure and placebo”

The New Yorker, of all publications, has a fascinating Ian Parker article on the natural history of the bonobo – the sexy primate that’s supposed to choose orgies over fighting… Read the rest “The Noble Bonobo”