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Viking’s Protected Graves With Thor’s Hammer
If this is an elaborate viral campaign to promote the upcoming Thor movie, color me impressed. Long dismissed as accidental additions to Viking graves, prehistoric “thunderstones”—fist-size stone tools resembling the Norse god Thor’s...
5 UFO Sightings That Non-Lunatics Find A Bit Unsettling
The fine folks at Cracked.com list ’em like only they can, from military dogfights to strange green fireballs. [Cracked]
Experimental Limb Regeneration That WILL Turn You Into A Lizard
We told you last week about a possible new therapy hoping to regrow body parts. Unlike the ill-fated research of Dr. Curt Connors, it does not use the DNA of an animal that naturally regrows limbs so the likelihood of the recipient turning...
Even Monkeys Are Baffled By Flying Squirrels
Apparently some small monkeys are freaked the freak out by flying squirrels. Researches have noticed that the otherwise even-keeled creatures lose their s@#$ when they see one. When Japanese giant flying squirrels glided over to a tree in...
Experimental Limb Regeneration That Won’t Turn You Into A Lizard
Paging Dr. Connors… Dr. Curt Connors… Researchers at the Tufts Center for Regenerative & Developmental Biology at Tufts University are testing whether a replicated amniotic (womb fluid) environment can promote limb regeneration in adult...
Shooting A Shark In The Head Whilst Pop Melodies Strum [Video]
And on Shark Week no less! In the interest of fair comment the YouTube description says that fatal shot was fired because the injured shark was going to be eaten anyhow, so this was a mercy killing. Still… OMFG! This completely changes how...
Are We About To Create A Real-Life Captain America?
The FDA has given a biotech tech firm the A-OK to start embryonic stem cell therapy trails. First up? An Iraq war vet who was paralyzed from the chest down in 2005. Yesterday it was announced that Iraq War veteran and Marine Matt Cole,...
What To Get The Corpse Hunter Who Has Everything…
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the Cadillac of dead body retrieval technology… The system involves a small aluminum pipette that can detect trace amounts of a chemical called ninhydrin-reactive nitrogen, which collects in air...
Are We Seeing Evidence Of Distant “Flaws In Space-Time?”
Could brief flashes of gamma explosions billions of light years away be the very seems of our cohesive universe? According to theories of high-energy particle physics, the strings would have been created when matter in the very early...
3-D Model Recreates Living Blob Which Used To Prowl The Oceans
It meandered about the sea, a living blob named Drakozoon kalumon. Surviving by glomming on to other creatures and surviving on the tiniest morsels of food, this 1.7 millimeter creature was protected by a leathery outer skin bigger than...
The Laser Is Saved! Lucasfilm Backs Away From Wicked Laser Lawsuit
In a letter to CNN Lucasfilm indicates that Wicked Lasers has provided sufficient evidence that they are not intentionally marketing their new (awesome) laser as a light saber. That means Lucasfilm Legal is powering down their Death Star...
You Will Believe A Squid Can Fly…
Want to hear something awesome? Squids can squirt their way out of the water engaging in what many marine biologists classify as flight. The phenomenon was so random that little photographic evidence existed of the practice. New proof...
Ladies & Gentleman: The Anti-Laser
My feeble brain can’t process how this could be used, but I’m pretty sure it’s awesome. “It’s kind of surprising that we’ve been using lasers for 50 years or so, and only now somebody noticed something pretty fundamental,” says Marin...
It’s People! The Ebola Virus Is Made From People!
Guess what’s lurking in your genome? Bits of Ebola and other viruses! Happy Friday! Viruses do not make good fossils. But advances in genomic technology have allowed scientists to peer into the genetic material of viruses and their hosts...
How Humans Can Mind Meld! Also, A Flying Donkey! [WeirdThingsTV]
Podcast: Gay for science
Kidnapped by scientists who dress like Nazis, but aren’t actually Nazis, the trio is pushed to try a radical new procedure that would make them temporarily gay. With the life of a young child on the line, they have to confront their own...
Mapping Out The Evolutionary Path Necessary To Create A Dragon
You want dragon? Here is how you’d make one with revisionist evolution… [Pop Sci]
Revise Your 172-Year Plan, Asteroid-Enhanced Death Looms
there is a one in a thousand chance that WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE BY THE CRUSHING BLOW OF AN ASTEROID. the probability of IT KILLING US ALL BY REIGNING UNHOLY DESTRUCTION FROM SPACE is about one in one thousand. however, half of that...
NASA Revisiting Magnetic Shield Assumptions, Could Force Fields Happen?
A Portuguese professor believes force fields enveloping space ships that take us to Mars could be a reality. …a mini-magnetosphere stretching a few hundred metres beyond the craft could be used in conjunction with the heavy shields that...
Mind Melding Is Real
Humans effectively synchronize brain wave patterns when telling a story to one another. Look Spock, no hands! [New Scientist via Kruzweil]