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NASA Needs Your Urine
The [urine collection] drive is to benefit NASA’s fledgling Orion Program, which aims to put astronauts back on the moon by 2020. The pee drive is to help engineers working on designing the new spaceship’s toilet.
Donations will be treated with a chemical that can hold solid particulates in the liquid so they […]
Sharp-Toothed Slug Found in Welsh Garden, Named New Species
Experts say a slug with blade-like teeth found in a Welsh garden is a new species, the BBC reported.
The creature was discovered in Cardiff last year and sucks in earthworms like spaghetti, the BBC said on Thursday. Another was found in Caerphilly.
Called the “ghost slug,” the Selenochlamys […]
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Secret ‘dino bugs’ revealed
It is like a magic trick - at first there is nothing and then it appears: a tiny insect unseen by any eye for 100 million years.
We are with Paul Tafforeau who is scrolling through images on his computer.
His pictures have been produced by a colossal X-ray […]
A whole dinosaur, with fossilized skin & soft tissue, a paleontologist’s Holy Grail:
Workers Uncovering Mummified Dinosaur
Using tiny brushes and chisels, workers picking at a big greenish-black rock in the basement of North Dakota’s state museum are meticulously uncovering something amazing: a nearly complete dinosaur, skin and all.
Unlike almost every other dinosaur fossil ever found, the […]
The Crusher « Innocent Bystanders
I don’t know why DARPA wasted time inventing the intertubes when they could have been working on cool stuff like this. [Go to I.B. for the link to] video of the Crusher in action.
Now, all we need to do is mount some nasty frickin’s remote-contolled guns on that thing.
It’s interesting that […]
IPhones Worth $143,000 Stolen By Truck Drivers
Two truck drivers stole 300 Apple iPhones worth $150,000 from a Hong-Kong cargo which they were taking it to Kennedy Airport, according to Nassau County police.
They’ve put in the empty boxes paper so that the theft wouldn’t be noticeable.
The truck drivers, from Baldwin, L.I., with the help of another […]
Tata unveils world’s cheapest car
NEW DELHI - India’s Tata Motors on Thursday unveiled the world’s cheapest car, bringing new mobility within the reach of tens of millions of people and nightmares to environmentalists, traffic engineers and safety advocates.
Company Chairman Ratan Tata, introducing the Nano — price tag $2,500 — during India’s main auto show, drove […]
Glowing pig passes genes to piglets
A cloned pig whose genes were altered to make it glow fluorescent green has passed on the trait to its young, a development that could lead to the future breeding of pigs for human transplant organs, a Chinese university reported.
The glowing piglets’ birth proves transgenic pigs are fertile and able […]
Wow! This is either huge news or the biological equivalent of cold fusion:
“We are more different genetically from people living 5,000 years ago than they were different from Neanderthals.”
MADISON — Countering a common theory that human evolution has slowed to a crawl or even stopped in modern humans, a new study examining data from an […]
After the landmark case in Dover, Pennsylvania, finding that Intelligent Design was religion, not science, and then the Kansas school board election repudiating the IDiots, I thought perhaps we had turned the corner. But perhaps not.
Evolution and Texas - New York Times
Is Texas about to become the next state to undermine the teaching of evolution? […]
Pope: Creation vs. evolution an ‘absurdity’
Pope Benedict XVI said the debate raging in some countries — particularly the United States and his native Germany — between creationism and evolution was an “absurdity,” saying that evolution can coexist with faith.
The pontiff, speaking as he was concluding his holiday in northern Italy, also said that while there […]
Baby mammoth find promises breakthrough
The discovery of a baby mammoth preserved in the Russian permafrost gives researchers their best chance yet to build a genetic map of a species extinct since the Ice Age, a Russian scientist said on Wednesday.
“It’s a lovely little baby mammoth indeed, found in perfect condition,” said Alexei Tikhonov, deputy […]
Giant Penguins May Have Roamed Peru
Giant penguins roamed what is now Peru more than 40 million years ago, much earlier than scientists thought the flightless birds had spread to warmer climes. Best known for their formal attire and presence in Antarctica, penguins today live in many islands in the Southern Hemisphere, some even near […]
Giant Bird-Like Dinosaur Fossil Found in China
Scientists have uncovered a huge surprise in the Inner Mongolia region of northern China: the fossil skeleton of an unusually robust bird-like dinosaur that lived 70 million years ago. The animal appeared to be a young adult 25 feet long and weighing 3,000 pounds and, if it had lived […]
Majority of Republicans Doubt Theory of Evolution
The majority of Republicans in the United States do not believe the theory of evolution is true and do not believe that humans evolved over millions of years from less advanced forms of life. This suggests that when three Republican presidential candidates at a May debate stated they did […]
