Yes, I am a month behind on this, but if you haven’t seen Beware the Believers yet, now is your second chance. I’m not sure exactly what side of the Evolution - ID battle the creators of this video support, but don’t miss it. (PZ apparently thinks they are coming down on […]
Artists: Sachiko Kodama, Minako Takeno
“In space, if unprotected pieces of metal touch each other, they stick together permanently.”
source and explanation
Tip of the hat to Auxiliary to the World
Holy crap
NASA photographs have revealed bright new deposits seen in two gullies on Mars that suggest water carried sediment through them sometime during the past seven years.
“These observations give the strongest evidence to date that water still flows occasionally on the surface of Mars,” said Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, Washington.
The Bush administration has appointed a new chief of family-planning programs at the Department of Health and Human Services who worked at a Christian pregnancy-counseling organization that regards the distribution of contraceptives as “demeaning to women.”
Eric Keroack, medical director for A Woman’s Concern, a nonprofit group based in Dorchester, Mass., will become deputy assistant secretary […]
New Scientist has an article about a new painkiller being developed from a substance in human saliva that is non-addictive and more powerful than morphine.
Saliva from humans has yielded a natural painkiller up to six times more powerful than morphine, researchers say.
The substance, dubbed opiorphin, may spawn a new generation of natural painkillers that relieve […]
What could possibly go wrong with this plan?
Thanks to advances in DNA technology, scientists can now reconstruct new copies of old viruses. Last year United States government scientists reconstructed the virus that caused the influenza epidemic of 1918. Now a team of French scientists has rebuilt a virus that infected our apelike ancestors several million […]
I also saw this on New Scientist:
Fathers: watch what you say. It seems dads may have more of an influence on their children’s language development than they might think.
Lynne Vernon-Feagans at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and her colleagues sat in on playtime with 92 families with dual incomes, observing how much each […]
This is very cool:
The first known organisms that live totally independently of the sun have been discovered deep in a South African gold mine.
The bacteria exist without the benefit of photosynthesis by harvesting the energy of natural radioactivity to create food for themselves. Similar life forms may exist on other planets, experts speculate.
The bacteria live […]
