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A million miles here, a million miles there

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: July 16, 2008 · Comments (13)

We are all doomed.....maybe in 2036. Since Apophis was discovered in 2004, asteroid-watchers have known that it has a slim chance of hitting Earth in 2036. At 270 metres wide, it is too small to rival the object that wiped out the dinosaurs, but it could cause devastating tsunamis were... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (6 votes cast)

Obvious Story Of The Day

Posted by Kevin · Published: June 12, 2008 · Comments (4)

Did they really, really need to conduct this survey? BALTIMORE, June 10 (UPI) -- Mothers of twins seldom get the recommended full night's sleep and often suffer from depression, U.S. researchers said. A U.S. researcher found the mothers of twins sleep an average of 5.4 hours in a 24-hour period,... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (6 votes cast)

Does a wild bear dance in the woods?

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 5, 2008 · Comments (4)

Bears apparently can and do dance in the wild - or something closely approximating it. Researchers with the USGS have caught several on hidden cameras lately. ***WARNING*** Do NOT try this at home, kids. Bears are strong and often unpredictable. Just ask Tim Treadwell about that . . . the... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.3/5 (3 votes cast)

DNA busts cave-pooper - 14,000 years later!

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 4, 2008 · Comments (13)

The recent consensus has been that the earliest humans in North America were the Clovis people, roughly 13,000 years ago. Newly discovered fecal fossils in Oregon indicate people were pooping here at least 1000 years earlier, though. Consider, if you will: it is 10,000 B.C. You are Og the caveman,... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (7 votes cast)

Sex, deceit, jealousy, transvestitism, and . . . MURDER!

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 3, 2008 · Comments (5)

No, this is not a recap of recent political sex scandals. This goes much deeper - to the very bottom of the ocean, where all sorts of going's on are going on amongst the octupi . . . as found by octopus researchers from Berkeley, and reported by the Associated... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (4 votes cast)

The Knucklehead of the Day award

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: March 15, 2008 · Comments (1)

Today's winner is Kim Tae-kook. He gets the award for the following. SEOUL, South Korea - A South Korean biotechnology professor agreed to retract two papers on anti-aging technology published in international science journals after the institute discovered he fabricated data, officials said Friday. Kim Tae-kook, a professor at the... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.8/5 (4 votes cast)

Monkeying around

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: January 17, 2008 · Comments (21)

Do some scientists have too much time on their hands? From the Japan Times Online- KYOTO (Kyodo) A team of Japanese and U.S. researchers succeeded in transmitting a monkey's brain signals over the Internet from the United States to cause a humanoid robot in Japan to walk, the Japanese team... [Full Story]

Rating: 2.5/5 (8 votes cast)

Mars could be hit by asteroid next month

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: December 23, 2007 · Comments (16)

Scientists say there is a one-in-75 chance a significant asteroid could crash into Mars on January 30, reports AFP: An asteroid hurtling towards Mars has a one in 75 chance of chance of scoring a direct hit on the red planet next month, NASA experts said in a statement Friday.... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.8/5 (6 votes cast)

Deevolution?

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: December 17, 2007 · Comments (10)

Chimps as good as college students in mental math Chimps performed about as well as college students at mental addition, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a finding that suggests non-verbal math skills are not unique to humans. The research from Duke University follows the finding by Japanese researchers earlier... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.8/5 (9 votes cast)

Coming soon: "Gay Spray™"

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: December 11, 2007 · Comments (5)

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have discovered altering a particular gene in fruit flies can turn them into homosexuals, but that the introduction of certain pheromones (smells) affected the behavior. They could, through manipulating the genetic effect and the pheromones, control whether or not male fruit flies... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.9/5 (10 votes cast)

Kangaroo farts could ease global warming

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: December 6, 2007 · Comments (11)

Most of the proposed strategies for reducing "greenhouse gases" focus on human consumption of fossil fuels which emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as a byproduct. However, methane is the "greenhouse gas" which does the most damage - equivalent to roughly twenty times an equal volume of CO2. The principal... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.6/5 (12 votes cast)

It's A Great Big Universe, And We're All Really Puny...

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: November 19, 2007 · Comments (40)

A lot of people have been giving Dennis Kucinich a hard time over the words of Shirley McLaine, and her pronouncement that he had seen a UFO at her home -- and it had a profound effect on him. I think it's time to clear the air on a few... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.4/5 (22 votes cast)

Chinese to test space weapon in moon shot

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: October 23, 2007 · Comments (16)

According to a watchdog group, the Chinese will be testing a space weapon during their moon launch this week, reports the Associated Press: A Chinese submarine will send test signals that could change the course of a satellite when China launches its first moon orbiter, as part of the country's... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.5/5 (23 votes cast)

Next "Endangered Species": Crab lice?

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: October 22, 2007 · Comments (13)

A Dutch museum is appealing for donations: they need crab lice - or at least one louse. No questions asked . . . and they are afraid for the species, reports Toby Sterling for the Associated Press : A Dutch museum said Friday it is having trouble getting its hands... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.7/5 (10 votes cast)

I take thee, Robot . . .

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: October 13, 2007 · Comments (15)

A British artificial intelligence expert earns a doctorate for researching marriage - between humans and robots. The UPI report: University of Maastricht in the Netherlands is awarding a doctorate to a researcher who wrote a paper on marriages between humans and robots. David Levy, a British artificial intelligence researcher at... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.9/5 (7 votes cast)

Fat's not bad for you? Double cheesecake to go, please

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: October 10, 2007 · Comments (21)

For the last twenty years, many Americans have adjusted their diets - or felt guilty for not doing so - to include less fat, especially saturated fat, based on warnings from those supposed to know such things that dietary fat contributes to heart disease and other illnesses. Maybe not .... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.1/5 (14 votes cast)

Obama's energy plan: shut down the economy?

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: October 8, 2007 · Comments (69)

Perhaps annoyed, but undeterred by the constant snickering over his naivety on foreign policy, Senator Barack Obama hastened to add energy policy to the list of subject areas on which he comes off as a sputtering buffoon, as Steve Holland reports for Reuters: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Monday... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.5/5 (22 votes cast)

Artificial life created?

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: October 6, 2007 · Comments (5)

Scientists are close to creating artificial life, reports Ed Pilkington for The Guardian: Craig Venter, the controversial DNA researcher involved in the race to decipher the human genetic code, has built a synthetic chromosome out of laboratory chemicals and is poised to announce the creation of the first new artificial... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (11 votes cast)

The Perfect Boob

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: September 26, 2007 · Comments (9)

No, this isn't about Mahmoud Ahmadinehad, or Chavez, or even Howard Dean. It's about the good kind. And with all the bad news in the world, we can certainly use a story that is perky and uplifting. Modern science has discovered the precise formula for perfect female breasts. A leading... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (17 votes cast)

My dog is smarter than your Honor Student

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: September 8, 2007 · Comments (5)

Better looking, too, but that's not the subject of this University of Vienna scientific research: Smarter than Apes? For serious scientists, Lassie and her friends were deemed little more than dumbed-down ancestors of the wolf, degenerated into panting morons by millennia of breeding. But a younger generation of researchers has... [Full Story]

Rating: 3/5 (5 votes cast)

Catch a falling star

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: August 11, 2007 · Comments (6)

No, this isn't about the travails of Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan, or even disturbing pictures of Debra Messing - for those you need to check Wizbang Pop!. Shortly after midnight tonight, though, Earth begins to enter the debris trail of the Comet Swift-Tuttle, which orbits the sun once every... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.3/5 (9 votes cast)

Al Gore's Global Warming Hysteria the Result of a NASA Programming Error

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: August 10, 2007 · Comments (78)

This is big, big news. Al Gore's global warming cause is based upon NASA graphs that say 1998 was the hottest year of the millennium. It turns out that is completely wrong. 1998 was not the hottest year; that distinction goes to the year 1934. Here's the nut of the... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.9/5 (40 votes cast)

Did Wayne Industries underwrite this research?

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: July 6, 2007 · Comments (15)

It turns out that for over a century, we might have been looking at the wrong animal for inspiration... ... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.9/5 (20 votes cast)

The Stem Cell Research that's Working Now

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: April 11, 2007 · Comments (25)

Even though politicians and activists insist that the real life saving potential resides in embryonic stem cells, there has not been one case in which embryonic stem cells have produced any results. However, adults stem cells, which these same politicians and activists virtually dismiss, are producing results right now. The... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.9/5 (19 votes cast)

The land of the rising rocket

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: January 23, 2007 · Comments (18)

During most of the "space race," the United States lagged behind. The Soviet Union beat us to every single landmark: first satellite. First man in orbit. First to orbit the moon. They won every single event, up to the very final, most important one: the first man on the moon.... [Full Story]

Rating: 0/5 (0 votes cast)

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