January 2008
Study debunks personality link to breast cancer →
WTF?
Beijing said to have some success preventing rain →
By Nick Mulvenney BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing has successfully managed to stop light rainfall in experiments aimed at guaranteeing a dry opening ceremony at August’s Olympic Games, officials said on Wednesday. With no roof on the showpiece Bird’s…
Bizarre spider scar found on Mercury's surface -... →
Putting the change in climate change →
Artificial letters added to life's alphabet - tech... →
DNA construction kit self-assembles 3D crystals -... →
Dark energy makes galaxies keep their distance -... →
Corruption is devouring the world's fish stocks -... →
Suicide warning over clinical trials - health - 30... →
Neurons evaluate goals when using tools →
SARS enters host cells via ''fatty rafts'': study →
HONG KONG (Reuters) - The SARS virus, which spread to many countries around the world in 2003 killing about 800 people, invades its victims using ”fatty rafts” on the cell membrane, Chinese scientists have found. These lipid rafts, or fatty acids,…
Use 'instant bubblewrap' for soft planetary... →
Frugal librarian amassed $8 million art trove →
By Luke Baker LONDON (Reuters) - From the outside it’s an ordinary, red-brick house in a terraced row, not unlike tens of thousands of others scattered across Britain. But on the inside, Jean Preston’s spartan Oxford home contained works of art of…
Man arrested in eBay sale of historic documents →
By Christopher Michaud NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York state employee who had access to government-owned archives has been arrested on suspicion of stealing hundreds of historic documents, many of which he sold on eBay, authorities said on…
Man struggles to return from the dead →
WARSAW (Reuters) - Red tape is preventing a Polish man from returning from the dead. Piotr Kucy, 38 and from the city of Polkowice in southwest Poland, was wrongly identified by authorities last August as a drowned man, only to show up a few days…
Fly naked on nudist holiday flight →
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German nudists will be able to start their holidays early by stripping off on the plane if they take up a new offer from an eastern German travel firm. Travel agency OssiUrlaub.de said it would start taking bookings from Friday…
Family ties defy changing society - being-human -... →
Galaxies give birth to stars on cosmic highways -... →
SpaceX tests multiple rocket engines for first... →
Shape-shifting robot forms from magnetic swarm -... →
Researchers make tiny radio from nanotubes →
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - Transistor radios tinier than a grain of sand, made using nanotechnology, can not only tune in to the traffic report, but may end up outperforming current silicon-based electronics, U.S. researchers said on…
Black Death did not kill indiscriminately, experts... →
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Black Death that decimated populations in Europe and elsewhere during the middle of the 14th century may not have been a blindly indiscriminate killer, as some experts have believed. An analysis of 490…
Chameleons' colourful flashes are social signals -... →
Human skin cells hide circadian clock - health -... →
Honour for Colossus code-cracker →
UK astronomers lose prime access to northern sky -... →
Sperm 'tap' planned for reversible vasectomy -... →
Pope wades back into debate on ''seductive''... →
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict warned on Monday of the ”seductive” powers of science that relegate man’s spirituality, reviving the science-versus-religion debate which recently forced him to cancel a speech after student protests. ”In an…
Some ordinary flu strains resist Tamiflu in study →
By Sarah Edmonds and Douwe Miedema STOCKHOLM/ZURICH (Reuters) - Some seasonal influenza viruses are resistant to Roche Holding AG’s Tamiflu, a study showed, but Roche said no doubts had been raised about the drug’s power to combat any deadly bird…
Caffeine ups blood sugar level in diabetics: study →
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cutting down on caffeine could help people with the most common form of diabetes better control their blood sugar levels, researchers said on Monday. Giving caffeine to a small group of people with type 2…
Invention: Nanotube X-ray enhancer - tech - 28... →
Kidney racket scandal shocks country →
By Alistair Scrutton NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The uncovering of an illegal kidney transplant racket in a booming IT city has gripped India, with reports hundreds of poor laborers may have been duped or forced into donating organs to wealthy clients,…
How's it going? Oh, can't complain.. →
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A choir that planned to sing a list of complaints about life in Singapore cancelled its performances after the city-state banned its foreign members from singing, organizers said Saturday. The 60-member ”complaints choir,” a…
Space impact creates giant mushroom cloud - space... →
New islands may be forming in the Adriatic Sea -... →
Earth-bound satellite 'nothing to worry about' -... →
The Emerging Mind
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Science's Most Wanted: Outrageous Innovators,... →
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The Autobiography of Charles Darwin... →
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Rat-eating plant discovered in Cape York - ABC... →
The Emerging Mind by Vilaynur Ramachandran →
Profile Books Ltd (2003), Paperback, 224 pages
Science's Most Wanted: Outrageous Innovators,... →
Potomac Books Inc. (2002), Edition: 1st ed, Paperback, 304 pages
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882 by... →
W. W. Norton & Company (1993), Paperback, 253 pages
DuBreq Stylophone pocket organ makes a comeback →
I must get one of these.
Y. Pestis as Black Death? →
Largest asteroid to come near Earth in 22 years -... →
Whew! That was close!
Comet samples are surprisingly asteroid-like -... →
Dirty snowball, snowy dirtball, whatever…
Scientific group calls for 50 percent reduction in... →
House-hunting bees behave like a brain - life - 26... →
Pitter-patter of raindrops could power devices -... →