Great beasts peppered from space

12-11-2007 • BBC News--By Jonathan Amos--

Evidence suggests ice-age animals in North America were peppered by exploding space debris.

Evidnece suggests ice-age megafauna peppered by space debris.

Coming soon – spider socks (in packs of 8)

12-11-2007 • London Times

Researchers at Shinshu University have succeeded in injecting spider genes into silkworms to create a thread that is stronger, softer and more durable than conventional silk. A Japanese manufacturer is already experimenting with the thread, and spide

Archaeologists find 2,000 year old Roman glue in Germany

12-11-2007 • ANI

Archaeologists have reportedly found traces of a glue used by the Romans 2,000 years ago near the town of Xanten in Germany. This ancient glue was used to mount silver laurel leaves on legionnaires' battle helmets, made of iron. Though the hel

Scientists Make Fruit Flies Gay, Then Straight Again

12-11-2007 • LiveScience

A new study finds that both drugs and genetic manipulation can turn the homosexual behavior of fruit flies on and off within a matter of hours.

Rapid acceleration in human evolution described

12-11-2007 • Reuters

Human evolution has been moving at breakneck speed in the past several thousand years, far from plodding along as some scientists had thought, researchers said.

The Self-Righting Object

12-11-2007 • NY Times

The Gomboc is a roundish piece of clear synthetic material with gently peaked, organic curves. It looks like a piece of modern art. But if you tip it over, something unusual happens: it rights itself.

Mysterious mammal caught on film

12-10-2007 • BBC

An "extraordinary" desert creature has been caught on camera for what scientists believe is the first time. [The Jackarat?]

Electricity revives Bali coral reefs

12-04-2007 • Yahoo News

The Bali project is mostly dependent on traditionally generated electricity, a method that itself contributes to global warming, so the project has critics.

Scientists Get Rare Look at Dinosaur Soft Tissue

12-03-2007 • Washington Post

A high school student hunting fossils in the badlands of his native North Dakota discovered an extremely rare mummified dinosaur that includes not just bones but also seldom seen fossilized soft tissue such as skin and muscles, scientists will announ

Hub biotech biggies launch new stem cell startup

12-03-2007 • Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technol

Top scientists and investors from the Boston area have helped form a new biotechnology firm focused on new stem cell treatments. But the location of its headquarters is still up for debate -- and could end up on the West Coast, company officials say.

"An Electronic Warfare Capabilities Display Like The World Has Never Seen"

11-28-2007 • Mondoreb

An awesome display of electronic warfare capabilities by Israel in September sparked a sharp reaction in Russia today. It all may bode ill for Iran tomorrow.

Breeding cancer free mice

11-27-2007 • Daily Mail

Mice resistant to cancer have been created in a breakthrough that could lead to a human treatment free of side-effects. A protein produced by the creatures may hold the key to a future therapy. It attacks tumour cells, but does not harm healthy tissu

Scientists find fossil of enormous bug

11=21-2007 • AP

This was a bug you couldn't swat and definitely couldn't step on. British scientists have stumbled across a fossilized claw, part of an ancient sea scorpion, that is of such large proportion it would make the entire creature the biggest bug e

Did a Comet Cause the Great Flood?

11-15-2007 • DISCOVER--Scott Carney--

The Universal Human Myth may be the first example of disaster reporting

Untouched on a shelf for 113 years: a dusty bone of the dinosaur no one knew existed

11-16-2007 • www.guardian.co.uk

Spinal fossil of sauropod found in museum vault · Species believed to have lived 140m years ago

Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything

11-16-2007 • By Roger Highfield, Science Editor UK Telegraph

An impoverished surfer has drawn up a new theory of the universe, seen by some as the Holy Grail of physics, which has received rave reviews from scientists.

Cloning: a giant step

11-11-2007 • The Independent

A technical breakthrough has enabled scientists to create for the first time dozens of cloned embryos from adult monkeys, raising the prospect of the same procedure being used to make cloned human embryos. Attempts to clone human embryos for research

Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming ‘Greatest Scam in History’

11-8-2007 • Newsbusters

You knew this all along right? Global Whining is just an excuse for more control by Big Brother. And Al Gore got a Nobel Prize for his propaganda!

Scientists discover "fear switch" in mice - subjects fearlessly approach and interact with

11-8-2007 • Daily Mail

Japanese scientists have discovered how to shut down areas of mice brains which respond with fear to odors from natural enemies and dangers. Previous experiments have produced super-athletic mice. Will future applications in humans produce fearless a

Scientists note brain's reaction to fear

11-4-2007 • AP

Science is getting a grip on people's fears. As Americans revel in all things scary, scientists say they now know better what's going on inside our brains when a spook jumps out and scares us. Knowing how fear rules the brain should lead to t

Creating a super race

11-1-2007 • The Independent

The mouse can run up to 3.7 miles at a speed of 60 feet per minute for five hours or more without stopping. Scientists said that this was equivalent of a man cycling at speed up an Alpine mountain without a break. Although it eats up to 60% more food

Experts discover rare amphibian imprints

10-31-2007 • AP

Full-body imprints of 3 ancient amphibians were found by researchers in a rock that sat untouched in a museum's fossil collection for years. The salamander-like creatures are 330 million years old -- 100 million years before the first dinosaurs

Neanderthals 'were flame-haired'

10-28-2007 • BBC News

"In Neanderthals, there was probably the whole range of hair color we see today in modern European populations, from dark to blond right through to red," Dr Lalueza-Fox told the BBC News website.

ADS Ray Gun Ready For Iraq by Next Year

10-26-2007 • Mondoreb & Ginn

In the aftermath of Blackwater, non-lethal crowd control is an issue that commanders in Iraq very much have on their minds. They may soon have a new weapon to use as early as next year. It's not a science fiction weapon, but one that's been i

Humans to Divide Into 2 Sub-species? What's it Mean?

10-25-2007 • Mondoreb & Ginn

The separation of humanity into wheat and chaff? Science-fiction or truth? Read the following news for what's in store.

Mythbusters' test seeks to determine if cockroaches could survive a nuclear holocaust

10-21-2007 • Tri-City Herald

After a nuclear holocaust, would cockroaches really be the last creatures standing?

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PC Forces Attack Nobel Winner Watson

10-19-2007 • Mondoreb

Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson, discoverer of the DNA double helix discovered something entirely different: you can't say that here. Watson apologized for earlier remarks about IQ.