After attempting to fix my computer for 14 hours straight, 7 hours of shopping, and an all-nighter searching for – and reading – the news, I now wish to most sincerely thank “Sinton’s”, whoever they are, for their luscious chocolate milk, which keeps me almost sane.
- Medication triggered madness of King George.
- Two nuclear historians say U.S. nuked Japan to kick-start the cold war, not end WWII. From newscientist.com, not rense.
- In Iran, over 500 Iron Age steles form a wall of men and women with no mouths.
- Scientists discover a whole family of one-atom-thick materials with properties they had never thought possible, and which promise a new industrial revolution.
- New nano valve can trap and release molecules on cue.
- Microfabrication: Angels limber up for pinhead dance.
- Neutrino researcher says, if necessary, he’ll chase them into the next dimension.
- Study challenges theory of random DNA changes.
- Aussie finds stem cells in uterus, which can be used to grow extra bone, muscle, fat and cartilage.
- Molecular biologists are the real newsmakers.
- Indecent exposure: Chemical pollutants are a part of our everyday life, and linked to diseases such as Parkinson’s. So why isn’t the government acting?
- Leptin, the hormone that controls hunger pangs, may also boost memory.
- Geologic revelations: Research suggests crushing pressures in Earth’s lower mantle force electrons of iron to pair-up in orbits, which could explain seismic wave anomalies.
- Does lightning get its spark from outer space?
- NASA sets Discovery launch for Tuesday.
- Beyond NASA: The push to privatize spaceflight.
- Martian meteorites imply there’s been a four-billion-year chill on Mars.
- Cosmic catastrophe may have struck sun-like star.
- How long does it take electrons to hop between atoms?
- In Hawaii, there’s a flesh-eating caterpillar that thinks it’s a spider.
- Three biologists challenge claim by a bird expert of seeing an ivory-billed woodpecker.
- Study clarifies the nature of the link between weight and diabetes.
- Chronic fatigue syndrome linked to abnormal gene behavior in white blood cells.
- Do we really want our debt and data literally at our fingertips? Japanese scientists think so.
- Australian parrots are an enigma to researchers.
- A follow-up on why the sky is blue: studying ultraviolet waves in space, and what flowers (example) look like to bumblebees.
- The M Word: Corrupted images quite easily crash IE in potentially exploitable ways. Thank god somebody finally told me, so I could turn them off.
- New study says people just can’t help eavesdropping on others’ conversations – and body language reveals when they’re doing it.
- Musical hallucination, a condition in which the brain hears phantom music, can be brought on by constant exposure to music in everyday life.
- ‘Sasquatch hair’ might be from a bison, but the sample is now on its way to an Alberta scientist who offered to do DNA analysis.
- Another searcher takes a stab at the question, Atlantis: Myth or Reality?
- A hero for our time: the continuing allure of magic and fantasy.
- UFOs sighted in the sky over Crown Wood.
- Big Brother Was Watching: Newly released files show that George Orwell was the subject of repeated special branch reports.
- Kapital gain: Why is Karl Marx Britain’s most revered philosopher?
- Inside truths: The traditional approach to understanding – using basic physical laws to explain the world – isn’t working so well.
- The reality of ‘absolute’ truth: science is being battered by differing agendas about what matters most.
- Earth needs a climate of change.
- Life’s profound problems are often resolved by dreams that come just before death, says author of Dreaming Beyond Death. Amazon US & UK.
Quote of the Day:
I wish I had a dollar for every editor I’ve worked with who has told me that science is just not interesting to readers — that they already did their science story this month.
David Ewing Duncan
Author of The Geneticist Who Played Hoops With My DNA … and other masterminds from the frontiers of biotech. Amazon US & UK.
