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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Electric Planes Could Transform How We Fly
As the promise of electric cars grows, so too does the potential of electric planes.
— LiveScience
The Return of the Werewolf
According to the ancients, it was believed any skilled sorcerer who so chose could become a werewolf, writes Brad Steiger.
— Haunted America Tours
Pentagon Looks to Breed Immortal 'Synthetic Organisms'
The Pentagon's mad science arm may have come up with its most radical project yet.
— Danger Room
How Botox May Really Keep Us From Feeling Sad
Paralyzing the "frown" muscles inhibits the ability to understand anger and sadness.
— Newsweek
Thousands of dinosaur footprints uncovered in China
The footprints, believed to be more than 100 million years old, were discovered after a three-month excavation.
— AFP
Monday, February 8, 2010
Snowpocalypse Seen from Space
Image from space reveals how the storm swept through Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia but largely spared New York City.
— LiveScience
Tale of a Would-Be Spy, Buried Treasure, and Uncrackable Code
Brian Regan used a complex encryption scheme to describe the locations of documents buried in a state park near Washington, DC.
— Wired Magazine
Audio Interview: Christopher Knowles
An exploration of the esoteric influences behind comic books and superheroes.
— Binnall of America
Doctors Stunned When 3-Year-Old Girl's Brain Tumor 'Disappears'
A grueling chemotherapy treatment only had halved the tumor.
— The Sun
Mystery "X" Stands For "X-traterrestrial" to Some Believers
An "X" pattern of dust debris, presumably from an asteroid collision, is simply arresting.
— Discovery News
Cassini detection adds to Enceladus liquid water story
There seems little doubt that Saturn's moon Enceladus hides a large body of liquid water beneath its icy skin.
— BBC News
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Weather forces NASA to scrub Endeavour launch
Low cloud ceilings forced NASA to scrub Sunday's launch of space shuttle Endeavour to the international space station.
— Associated Press
Smart dust could give early warning of space storms
Tiny spacecraft could improve our ability to detect sun storms, adding valuable minutes to the time we have to act.
— New Scientist
The Big Question
What do we know about the human brain and the way it functions?
— The Independent
British researcher asks: How many friends can you have?
Anthropologist Robin Dunbar says human beings can have no more than 150 friends – that’s the upper limit the brain can absorb.
— Toronto Star
The government has your baby's DNA
Many parents don't realize their baby's DNA is being stored in a government lab.
— CNN
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Do we want brain scanners to read our minds?
As 'vegetative' patients 'talk' to scientists, Prof. Colin Blakemore assesses the profound implications.
— The Telegraph
This Tree's a Lady!
Scientists have discovered the female sex hormone progesterone in a walnut tree.
— LiveScience
Mexican journalist to present evidence of UFO sightings
UFOlogist Jaime Maussan is convinced mankind will see a marked change in the year 2012.
— The Monitor
Physicist Discovers How to Teleport Energy
First, they teleported photons. Now one physicist has worked out how to do it with energy.
— Technology Review
Exoplanet gas spotted from Earth
Astronomers have used a new ground-based technique to study the atmosphere of a planet outside our Solar System.
— BBC News
Friday, February 5, 2010
The strangest liquid: Why water is so weird
Key to the understanding of water's mysteries is the way its molecules interact with one another.
— New Scientist
Pig lungs in human transplants move step closer
Scientists used a ventilator and pump to keep animal lungs alive and "breathing" while human blood flowed in them.
— The Telegraph
Could life exist on Jupiter moon?
Europa may harbor an ocean beneath its thick crust of ice.
— BBC News
Bees See Your Face as a Strange Flower
Bees can learn to recognize human faces, or at least face-like patterns.
— LiveScience
Bosom bombers: Women have explosive breast implants
Authorities alarmed by possibility of surgically placed explosives.
— WorldNetDaily
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Vegetative state patients can respond to questions
Scientists have been able to reach into the mind of a brain-damaged man and communicate with his thoughts.
— BBC News
Powering cube satellites
An electric propulsion technology for miniature satellites aims to give them more mobility.
— MIT News
Pill That Will Help You Live to 100
The breakthrough has come after scientists identified three "super-genes."
— Daily Express
Ancient Mongolian Tomb Holds Skeleton of Western Man
The remains of a 2,000-year-old skeleton found in eastern Mongolia reveal a man of multi-ethnic heritage.
— Discovery News
