News Briefs 22-05-2012

Replication in more ways than one.

• Replication studies: bad copy.
• Evidence found that Lake Cheko is impact crater for Tunguska Event.
• How one flawed study spawned a decade of lies.
• The Unabomber’s pen pal.
• Microbes at the edge of space.
• Space X successfully launches dragon into orbit.
• Anatomical evidence for the elusive G-Spot.
• Nikola Tesla wasn’t god and Thomas Edison wasn’t the devil.
• Cursing stone found on Isle of Canna.
• Hidden epidemic: tapeworms living inside people’s brains.
• More parasites means healthier frogs.
• Why great ideas come when you aren’t trying.
• California considers DNA privacy law.
• Reaction uses carbon dioxide to make carbon-based semiconductor.
• Science vs PR.
• Headaches led to discovery of tumour - in the other twin.
• Secret ingredient to make solar energy work: salt.

Quote of the Day:

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Elizabeth Taylor