Missing Tortoise, Reclaimed Fungi
Feeding Tortoise GNU Free Documentation LicenseNew York City was full of mysteries this week: Who was the idiot that approved the low-flying plane? Does being near the swine flu outbreak in Queens...
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Infrared A thermal image taken by an NEC TH7800 camera. 108 of these cameras are set up in Japanese airports to help screen for swine flu carriers courtesy of NEC Corporation Scientists decoding...
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Grizzly Bears Chris Servheen/USFWS This story of a man and his best friend, an 800-pound grizzly bear, is sweet and all. And it's pretty cute that the bear served as best man in his wedding. But...
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Dung Beetles Rafael Brix (GNU Free Documentation License) Willy Wonka would have liked this, but I can't imagine a whole lot of human cooks worth their -- ahem -- salt, will have much interest: a...
View ArticleAre Those Birds In Your Pants?
White-Rumped Shama K. W. BridgesProps to whoever noticed bird poop on a smuggler's socks. The smuggler passing through LAX turned out to have 14 birds in his pants when he was busted. Of course the...
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Elbow MB (CC licensed) There has been one beneficiary of flu madness: the elbow. Handily bendy, usefully pointy, the joint is seeing its moment in the sun. Rubbing elbows together in greeting has been...
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Rubber Ducks Elf (GNU Free Documentation License) An FBI agent who posed as a cybercriminal named for a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles character talks about how he helped bring down a worldwide network...
View ArticleSlow Down and Enjoy The Virtual World Now
Common Snail macrophile (CC licensed) Changing your Facebook status to "[Your name here] is dead" would be just one small step in simplifying the post-mortem wrangling and puzzlement over how to...
View ArticleThe Sounds of Science
White Noise Omegatron (GNU Free Documentation License) Behold Huia cavitympanum: the only frog species that can communicate through ultrasonic calls too high-pitched for humans to hear. Two scientists...
View ArticleLet's Talk About Space
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field NASA/ESA On Tuesday, a Hubble astronaut posted on the micro-blogging site from the great beyond. Stay tuned -- @Astro_Mike likes to update. Coming soon, we hope, @PopSci...
View ArticleWhat Doesn't Kill You... Will Help With Your Allergies?
Money Tracy O (CC Licensed) The findings of a recent mice study suggest that smoking reduces allergic reactions by inhibiting mast cell activity. This, of course, begs the question, Was tobacco giant...
View ArticleThe Secret to Happiness
Shopping Cart Dano (CC licensed) What makes us happy? There's no simple answer (sorry), though this 70-year-long longitudinal study on well-being offers some fascinating insight. Humility helps, so do...
View ArticleSwine Flu Is Still Here
Back to Normal A discarded flu mask lays idly on the pavement as Mexico City residents return to the streets courtesy of Eneas, via Flickr.comWhile the streets of Mexico City once again host the...
View ArticlePrehistoric Gangsta Grills
Dental Bling, Circa 500 B.C. via National GeographicResearchers can figure out who was the Flava Flav of ancient Mesoamerica by checking out skeletons' teeth. Dentists who lived up to 2500 years ago...
View ArticleNASA Releases Satellite Photos of Olympic Host Cities
London From Space NASA As is the case every four years, only a lucky few will be able to see the summer Olympics live and in-person. The rest of us peasants will settle for watching and streaming the...
View ArticleWhat the Elbow?
There has been one beneficiary of flu madness: the elbow. Handily bendy, usefully pointy, the joint is seeing its moment in the sun. Rubbing elbows together in greeting has…
View ArticleSuper-Smart People Rule the Earth
An FBI agent who posed as a cybercriminal named for a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles character talks about how he helped bring down a worldwide network of identity thieves,…
View ArticleSlow Down and Enjoy The Virtual World Now
Changing your Facebook status to "[Your name here]is dead" would be just one small step in simplifying the post-mortem wrangling and puzzlement over how to update, monitor or remove a person's online...
View ArticleThe Sounds of Science
Behold Huia cavitympanum: the only frog species that can communicate through ultrasonic calls too high-pitched for humans to hear. Two scientists made the discovery by camping out with recording...
View ArticleLet's Talk About Space
On Tuesday, a Hubble astronaut posted on the micro-blogging site from the great beyond. Stay tuned -- @Astro_Mike likes to update. Coming soon, we hope, @PopSci goes to space. Also in today's links:...
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