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Smash It on Purpose

March 13, 2013
It's like a video game in the sky: A joint mission between Europe and the US plans to slam a spacecraft into an asteroid in order to prove that incoming space rocks can be knocked off their paths before they... continued

What if Women Ruled

March 12, 2013
What if more women were in leadership positions? Things still wouldn't be perfect, but things might be better: for one thing, we would probably have less war. Women often experience life differently, and that experience affects the way they see--and... continued

Is There a Neanderthal in the House?

March 12, 2013
Bunions bothering you? How about lower back pain, or impacted wisdom teeth? As we humans evolved to walk on two legs, grow larger brains and shorter jaws, bear big babies and live longer, we’ve also experienced some negative consequences on... continued

Bee Venom Kills AIDS

March 12, 2013
A new study show that bee venom can kill the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). While we don't recommend getting stung by bees as a preventative, this COULD be incorporated into a protective gel for women. The secret is a toxin... continued

What if Coal Didn’t Pollute

March 11, 2013
We're desperately searching for new oil and gas (with fracking), but we have plenty of coal. China does too, but they use so much of it that their country is hopelessly polluted. If only we could find a way to... continued

End of the Gentle Giants

March 11, 2013
African forest elephants are being poached out of existence. A new study with of largest dataset on forest elephants ever compiled reveals a loss of more than 60% in the past decade, due to slaughtering them for their ivory tusks.... continued

Mining Mars

March 11, 2013
NASA's Curiosity rover has bored into a Martian rock and pulled out its first sample of the planet's insides to analyze. This could be the first step to mining Mars. In New Scientist, Lisa Grossman quotes NASA's Louise Jandura as... continued

Don’t Swat It–It May be a Spy

March 8, 2013
Why make tiny flying drones when you can fly REAL insects by remote-control? In 2006, DARPA asked US scientists to submit "innovative proposals to develop technology to create insect-cyborgs"--tiny flying robots that can perform surveillance in dangerous territory. One there... continued

We’re Closer Than Ever to Becoming Invisible

March 8, 2013
Great strides are being made, when it comes to creating invisibility. Baile Zhang, a scientist from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, caused his audience to gasp when he demonstrated the following experiment: He used a small box made of calcite... continued

Will the Next Pope be Black?

March 8, 2013
Africa is the continent where Catholicism is strongest, unlike Europe, where people are becoming more secular--even in Italy, home of the Vatican. The exiting Pope Benedict will have a lot of influence on who will be chosen to succeed him.... continued