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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

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