Not the base, the 527-foot former missile tracking ship. It was sunk off the Florida Keys to create a reef...And critters are moving in. picked by maven 1 month ago

The Catlin Arctic Survey was working with the World Wildlife Fund, and the WWF warns, "This could lead to flooding affecting one-quarter of the world's population, substantial increases in greenhouse gas emissions from massive carbon pools and extreme global weather changes." picked by suebe 1 month ago

If we see a person first in a good light, it is difficult subsequently to darken that light.


*does this halo make my butt look big?* picked by Bornbad 1 month ago

Brain signals have shown that calves do appear to feel pain when slaughtered according to Jewish and Muslim religious law, strengthening the case for adapting the practices to make them more humane. picked by Bornbad 1 month ago

A crow-sized reptile sporting a lengthy tail likely soared through the skies some 160 million years ago, snatching feathered dinosaurs and tiny flying mammals from the air, suggest fossils of a newly identified pterosaur. picked by Bornbad 1 month ago

The frenzy is building over mostly Western generated misinformation regarding the Mayan calendar.

The Maya have more important things to worry about, like rain. picked by jhordie 1 month ago

A Gömböc is a strange thing. It looks like an egg with sharp edges, and when you put it down it starts wriggling and rolling around with an apparent will of its own. picked by Bornbad 1 month ago

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 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months ago

Who Would Have Thought? Ducks Like Water! picked by Bornbad 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago

This year's Nobel prize for chemistry has been awarded to Professors Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath. picked by sharon22 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago

This is just going to be a light-hearted thread about things that science can't explain. picked by Bornbad 2 months 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 2 months ago