Science

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

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:

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