An oxygen-depleted "dead zone" the size of New Jersey (well, figures!) is starving sea life near the coast of Oregon and Washington. picked by Bornbad 4 weeks ago

NASA has recalculated the trajectory of asteroid Apophis and concluded that Bruce Willis can stand down from a state of doom-body-busting readiness. picked by Bornbad 4 weeks ago

An Italian scientist says he has reproduced one of the world's most famous Catholic relics, the Shroud of Turin, to support his belief it is a medieval fake, not the cloth Jesus was buried in. picked by Bornbad 4 weeks ago

Who Would Have Thought? Ducks Like Water! picked by Bornbad 4 weeks ago

In 1969, Sagan contributed a piece about his marijuana use for the book "Marihuana Reconsidered." Sagan wrote under the pseudonym of Mr. X, but he was later confirmed as the author.
*props to boingboing* picked by Bornbad 1 month ago

The authors suggest that the analgesic effect occurs because it enhances the sense of body ownership, the sense that one's body belongs to oneself. Viewing one's hand in pain may therefore increase one's sense of ownership over the hand, and in turn increase bodily control of it. picked by Bornbad 1 month ago

EARLIER this year, a puzzling report appeared in the journal Sleep Medicine. It described two Italian people who never truly slept. They might lie down and close their eyes, but read-outs of brain activity showed none of the normal patterns associated with sleep. Their behaviour was pretty odd, too. picked by Bornbad 1 month ago

This year's Nobel prize for chemistry has been awarded to Professors Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath. picked by sharon22 1 month ago

Imagine awaking to a strong sense of a 'presence', pressure on your chest, intense fear and hallucinations, but being incapable of moving a muscle. picked by Bornbad 1 month ago

Vaccine works similar to vaccines for microorganisms, training your body to view cocaine as a bad invader.

* Thirty-eight percent produced anti-cocaine antibodies picked by tgkprog 1 month ago

Van Gogh was comforted and inspired by the night, as a new show in Amsterdam highlights. But was this fascination a symptom of mental disorder? picked by chez 1 month ago

Menstruation is often seen as embarrassing or disgusting and is rarely discussed. But some feminists are determined to break this taboo picked by suebe 1 month ago

Workers at an Arizona cryonics facility allegedly mutilated the frozen head of baseball legend Ted Williams - even using it for a bizarre batting practice picked by nateebiinature 1 month ago

Steel or titanium is great for helping bones to repair but they have to be removed once the repair is completed. A new metallic glass mixture of o 60% magnesium, 35% zinc and 5% calcium has been created in Switzerland that will perform like steel but will dissolve instead of having to be surgically removed. picked by 2manyusernames 1 month ago

Monique Zimmerman-Stein has been nearly blind for the last two years from Stickler syndrome, a rare genetic disorder. She recently decided to forgo her own treatment to save funds to treat her two daughters, who also suffer from the condition, reports Lane DeGregory of the St. Petersburg Times. picked by nateebiinature 1 month ago

Scientists hunting for amino acids in the giant dust cloud at the center of the Milky Way were surprised to discover ethyl formate, a chemical that smells like rum and gives raspberries their unique taste. picked by Bingo 1 month ago

This is just going to be a light-hearted thread about things that science can't explain. picked by Bornbad 1 month ago

In the largest study of its kind, more than 4000 prostate cancer patients were tracked. Findings from the study show that aggressive cancer requiring surgery has a certain protein indicator. More than 60% of the patients lacked the indicator and could be treated with careful monitoring. picked by bernardblack 1 month ago

Beat the defenseless into the hopeless. picked by Bornbad 1 month ago

Meet Buttkiss, the black pacu who has eaten more than 175,000 fish during his residence in Queens. picked by suebe 1 month ago

Researchers say they have found a small but statistically significant increase in the number of patients who die each year when junior doctors start work. picked by suckersklub 2 months ago

Do you ever wonder why dogs sniff each other’s butts? Whether it is a new acquaintance or old one, they meet up and immediately run to the rear. Most people believe it is their way of saying “hello.“ However, this is a myth. Dogs sniff each other’s butts for a much deeper reason - to get to know one another. picked by Bornbad 2 months ago

We've been looking at other planets through telescopes for four centuries. But if you really want to get to know a place, there's no substitute for being there. And in the past decade, more than 20 spacecraft have ventured into the deepest reaches of our solar system.*check out Photo Gallery* picked by Bornbad 2 months ago

A new ghostshark species has been identified off the coast of Southern California, and it’s darker and weirder than any shark we know. The purplish black ancient relative of the modern shark comes packed with a suite of odd features that give its taxonomical family the name chimaera, after the mythical beast made from the parts of many animals. picked by equinox 2 months ago

The main premise of the New Agers is that our thoughts create our reality—positive or negative. So, by extension, our thoughts make us sick or well. On an elementary level, that seems easy enough to accept. After all, we all know people who are stuck in a quagmire of self-pity, depression, and anger who exhibit physical symptoms that mirror their mental state picked by Bingo 2 months ago