| December 17, 2012 | -
Scientists learned that the presence of elephants can make smaller animals feel safe; found the largest tear ever detected in Earth's magnetic field; and reported that the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and space was lowering, which would mean that the sky is falling.
| Source 1:
New Scientist
Source 2:
Salon
Source 3:
Science Daily
|
| January 4, 2009 | -
Otolaryngologists warned golfers that they could go deaf from using a new generation of thin-faced titanium drivers, which create a loud boom on impact with the ball.
| Source:
TelegraphUK
|
| December 27, 2008 | -
Scientists found that chimpanzees use the same region of the brain as humans to recognize familiar faces.
| Source:
Science Daily
|
| December 8, 2008 | -
Scientists found that smaller spiders make better lovers and that dogs get jealous.
| Source 1:
Science Daily
Source 2:
New Scientist
|
| December 6, 2008 | -
Scientists at Berkeley found that as compared to rich-child brains, the brains of poor children are often more like those of stroke victims, with less response in the prefrontal cortex. “This is a wake-up call,” said a neuroscientist.
| Source:
Science Daily
|
| November 25, 2008 | -
Researchers learned that ants that perform specific tasks are no more efficient than regular ants. “It turns out,” said scientist Anna Dornhaus, “that the ones that are specialized on a particular job are not particularly good at doing that job.”
| Source:
Science Daily
|
| November 4, 2008 | -
Scientists in Japan produced clones of dead mice, a feat they say brings them closer to resurrecting extinct species.
| Source:
CNN
|
| October 1, 2008 | -
Scientists found that hydrogen sulfide, which is produced in the colon and causes the rotten-egg stink in flatulence, helps keep blood pressure low in mice.
| Source:
Live Science
|
| September 23, 2008 | - Scientists hunted for crops that could withstand climate change.
| Source:
BBC
|
| September 22, 2008 | - Geologists found that Iran is sinking.
| Source:
National Geographic
|
| September 18, 2008 | -
Researchers found that 55 percent of U.S. citizens believe they have been helped by a guardian angel. “Americans,” said one scholar of religion, “live in an enchanted world.”
| Source:
TIME
|
| September 10, 2008 | - The Large Hadron Collider commenced operations, firing a beam of protons through a 17-mile-long tunnel that runs under the Franco-Swiss border. “I thought, 'Oh, wow,'” said an engineer. “'It actually worked!'”
| Source:
National Geographic News
|
| September 9, 2008 | - Scientists at the Norwegian Polar Institute were surprised to find the partial remains of a polar bear in the stomach of a Greenland shark. “There is,” said a researcher, “far easier prey to be found.”
| Source:
The Scotsman
|
| August 28, 2008 | -
Australian
scientists determined that sponges have the genes necessary to express nerves.
| Source:
LiveScience
|
| August 27, 2008 | -
Scientists studying the Permian-Triassic Mass Extinction, which annihilated much of life on Earth 251 million years ago, attributed the die-off to floods of reeking Siberian lava, which released carbon dioxide and created a greenhouse effect, thereby starving oceans of oxygen and poisoning the atmosphere. “In the late Permian,” said geoscientist Lee Kump, “Earth itself was the villain. But today we've stepped in as the villain.”
| Source:
McClatchyDC.com
|
| August 22, 2008 | -
Microbiologists found a virus named Sputnik that can infect larger viruses.
| Source:
National Geographic News
|
| August 19, 2008 | -
Scientists found that dogs can develop a sense of right and wrong, that elephants can do basic math, and that Australian Aboriginal children can count even if their local language has no words for numbers.
| Source 1:
Stuff.co.nz
Source 2:
New Scientist
Source 3:
Science Daily
|
| August 11, 2008 | -
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, developed a material for use in invisibility cloaks.
| Source:
BBC
|
| August 9, 2008 | -
Australian
scientist George Wilson called on people to eat kangaroo instead of beef to reduce global warming.
| Source:
BBC
|
| July 20, 2008 | -
Research showed that men lust for women whether or not they find them attractive.
| Source:
Telegraph
|
| July 10, 2008 | -
Scientists discovered a new form of mad cow disease in the United States.
| Source:
BBC
|
| July 9, 2008 | - Danish scientists found that infants born from once-frozen embryos had a higher birth weight and fewer twin siblings, and were less likely to suffer from abnormalities. “Only the very top quality embryos,” explained Dr. Anja Pinborg, “survive the freezing and thawing process.”
| Source:
Telegraph UK
|
| July 4, 2008 | -
British
studies warned that eating junk food during pregnancy might cause lasting damage to the child, and that eating too much tofu could lead to dementia.
| Source 1:
BBCnews.com
Source 2:
BBCnews.com
|
| July 3, 2008 | -
Researchers at Texas A&M's Fruit and Vegetable Improvement Center found that watermelons have a “Viagra-like effect,” but a researcher in Oklahama pointed out that this benefit may be offset by the melon's diuretic properties.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| June 27, 2008 | -
Scientists found that humans laugh because they are surprised by new patterns, that they grow happier as they grow older, and that their sense of adventure is located within the ventral striatum; they also found that they can easily remember happiness and sadness, but, with the exception of some groups of Asian Americans, often have trouble recalling mixed emotions. People also sleep poorly when they eat at night, and tend to overeat as they contemplate their own deaths.
| Source 1:
Science Daily
Source 2:
Science Daily
Source 3:
Science Daily
Source 4:
Science Daily
Source 5:
Science Daily
Source 6:
Science Daily
|
| June 3, 2008 | -
Scientists located the part of the brain responsible for understanding sarcasm.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| May 3, 2008 | -
Scientists reported that echolocating bats cry out loud to detect their prey, emitting sounds louder than those at a rock concert.
| Source 1:
Plosone
Source 2:
Science Daily
|
| May 2, 2008 | -
Scientists found that spiders “talk” to potential mates using a type of light not visible to the human eye.
| Source:
BBC
|
| April 13, 2008 | - European scientists used lasers to stimulate electrical activity in thunderclouds.
| Source:
Scientific Blogging
|
| March 20, 2008 | -
Researchers found that a diet that includes lots of folate will keep sperm healthy.
| Source:
BBC News
|
| March 14, 2008 | -
Scientists concluded that destroying information by throwing it into a black hole was not effective, because the information could leak from the hole at 1,000 bits per second, the same speed as a dial-up Internet connection.
| Source:
Scientific American
|
| February 22, 2008 | -
Scientists revealed that the sun will vaporize the earth if we cannot figure out how to change our orbit within 7.6 billion years.
| Source:
Scientific Blogging
|
| February 19, 2008 | -
Researchers were at a loss to explain why suicide rates recently rose sharply for Americans aged 45-54, and it was revealed that the man who killed five Northern Illinois University students and himself had stopped taking Prozac shortly before his death because it “made him feel like a zombie and lazy.”
| Source 1:
NY Times
Source 2:
NY Times
|
| February 6, 2008 | -
NASA celebrated its 50th anniversary by beaming the Beatles hit “Across the Universe” into deep space, directing the song toward Polaris, 431 light-years away. Scientists meeting at Arizona State University were concerned that the broadcast could provoke an attack by mean-spirited aliens. “Before sending out even symbolic messages,” said a researcher, “we need an open discussion about the potential risks.”
| Source 1:
Washington Post
Source 2:
Telegraph
|
| January 31, 2008 | -
British scientists announced that it would soon be possible to convert female bone marrow into viable sperm cells, hastening the obsolescence of men.
| Source:
Death of the father: British scientists discover how to turn women's bone marrow into sperm
|
| January 20, 2008 | -
Scientists funded by mobile-phone companies found that if the phones are used before bedtime their radiation can reduce sleep and cause headaches and confusion; the Mobile Manufacturers Forum insisted that the “results were inconclusive.”
| Source:
The Independent
|
| January 20, 2008 | -
Scientists in Chicago found that lonely people are more likely to assign human qualities to their pets and to believe in God.
| Source:
Science Daily
|
| January 19, 2008 | -
Hungarian
scientists created a computer program that, based on its analysis of 6,000 barks from 14 Hungarian sheepdogs, can exceed human capability in accurately classifying sheepdog barks.
| Source:
Science Daily
|
| January 11, 2008 | -
Scientists from the American Astronomical Society attended their annual meeting and agreed that the universe is bizarre and violent. “This is the glory of the universe,” said the association's president. “What is odd and what is normal is changing.”
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| December 12, 2007 | -
Scientists
cloned fluorescent cats, developed an antidote for zombieism in cockroaches, and revealed that evolutionary changes in the lower backs and hip joints of females prevent pregnant women from toppling over. “When you think about it,” said Harvard anthropologist Katherine Whitcome, “women make it look so very damn easy.”
| Source 1:
New Scientist
Source 2:
Yahoo News
Source 3:
CNN
|
| December 8, 2007 | - Scientists discovered a mysterious black fungus growing on the cave paintings of Lascaux. Some thought it might be the effect of global warming, noting that soil temperatures around the caves have risen two degrees centigrade since 1982.
| Source:
NYT
|
| October 5, 2007 | -
Canadian
researchers found that lonely, bullied, or ostracized children have sex earlier than happier children.
| Source:
Canada.com
|
| September 12, 2007 | -
Scientists predicted that ebola would also kill the last remaining western lowland gorillas.
| Source:
BBC
|
| August 24, 2007 | -
Researchers found that cornrows can cause permanent bald patches.
| Source:
BBC
|
| August 24, 2007 | -
Scientists found a very big hole in the universe.
| Source:
Yahoo News
|
| August 23, 2007 | -
Studies in the U.S. showed that one in four adults read no books last year, that white youths are happier than the youths of other races, and that senior citizens are enjoying an active and varied sex life that includes masturbation, vaginal intercourse, and oral sex.
| Source 1:
Yahoo News
Source 2:
Yahoo News
Source 3:
Washington Post
|
| August 22, 2007 | -
Scientists in England determined that Tyrannosaurus rex would have been able to outrun a professional soccer player.
| Source:
BBC
|
| August 20, 2007 | -
Scientists in Louisiana determined that some obese people may be infected with a fat virus.
| Source:
MSNBC.com
|
| August 18, 2007 | -
Scientists analyzing the urine of the lonely found higher levels of epinephrine, a “fight or flight” chemical that contributes to physiological decay over time.
| Source:
biosingularity.wordpress.com
|
| August 16, 2007 | -
German
physicists claimed to have broken the speed of light.
| Source:
TelegraphUK
|
| August 8, 2007 | -
Scottish
physicists reversed the Casimir force to make objects levitate.
| Source:
TelegraphUK
|
| August 6, 2007 | - Scientists found that a female mouse with a disabled nasal organ will begin to exhibit masculine behavior: mounting other mice, engaging in pelvic thrusting, and abandoning her young.
| Source:
Sydney Morning Herald
|
| July 31, 2007 | -
Researchers at the University of Texas identified 237 reasons that people have sex, including “he smelled nice.”
| Source:
ABC News
|
| July 30, 2007 | -
Australian
scientists said that rats can learn the risks of consuming marijuana.
| Source:
The Age
|
| July 30, 2007 | -
Marine biologists discovered an octopus with elephant ears.
| Source:
CBC News via SympaticoMSN
|
| July 29, 2007 | - A team of scientists had bred schizophrenic mice.
| Source:
The Sunday Times via Times Online
|
| July 25, 2007 | - Scientists said that obesity can spread like a virus among friends.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| July 20, 2007 | - A French geologist stated that a newly discovered underground lake in Darfur, which was expected to help bring peace to the water-starved region, likely dried up at least 5,000 years ago.
| Source:
BBC News
|
| July 4, 2007 | - A study claimed that men with high testosterone make irrational decisions.
| Source:
Newscientist.com
|
| July 3, 2007 | -
Scientists cloned a sperm.
| Source:
BBCNews.com
|
| July 2, 2007 | -
Scientists succeeded for the first time in making a baby using a lab-matured thawed egg.
| Source:
BBCnews.com
|
| July 2, 2007 | - Scientists announced a potential drug that could erase bad memories.
| Source:
Livescience.com
|
| June 20, 2007 | -
Scientists said that global warming, overfishing, and pollution are stressing out coral, causing an outbreak of lethal herpes in the world’s reefs. “The coral,” said microbiologist Forest Rowher, “is actually losing control of its microbial community.”
| Source:
Live Science
|
| June 20, 2007 | -
Scientists called Europe's
winter of 2006 - 2007 the warmest in 700 years.
-
Scientists called Europe's
winter of 2006 - 2007 the warmest in 700 years.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| June 13, 2007 | -
Mr. Wizard died.
| Source:
LA Times
|
| June 11, 2007 | -
Scientists speculated that the woolly mammoth, which died off more than 10,000 years ago, as well as the saber-toothed cat, the mastodon, and the giant ground sloth, were exterminated by a comet that exploded over Canada with a force equivalent to more than a million nuclear weapons.
| Source:
Washington Post
|
| June 7, 2007 | -
Scientists successfully produced talking construction paper, trained dogs to track polar bear feces, and made stem cells out of adult mice.
| Source 1:
BBC News
Source 2:
New York Times
Source 3:
Medical News today via google news
|
| May 30, 2007 | - It was revealed that young sparrows learn their songs by eavesdropping.
| Source:
UPI via ScienceDaily
|
| May 29, 2007 | -
Scientists in Des Moines, Iowa, talked to apes, who responded by pointing to lexigrams.
| Source:
ABCNews
|
| May 28, 2007 | -
Argentine
researchers used Viagra to treat jet lag in hamsters.
| Source:
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Wichita Eagle
|
| May 11, 2007 | -
Peruvian
scientists were concerned that an itinerant penguin from Chile “could suffer discrimination” among Peru's penguins.
| Source:
BBC
|
| May 10, 2007 | - Researchers at Johns Hopkins University linked throat cancer to oral sex.
| Source:
BBC
|
| April 18, 2007 | - A Stanford study concluded that pollution from ethanol could be a worse health hazard than that from gasoline.
| Source:
San Francisco Gate
|
| April 13, 2007 | -
Scientists announced the creation of nascent sperm cells from human bone marrow samples.
| Source:
BBC
|
| April 5, 2007 | -
Researchers used infrared and atomic-emission spectroscopy, mass spectroscopy, electron microscopy, pollen analysis, and the leading “noses” in the perfume industry to determine that a rib bone unearthed at the site where Joan of Arc was burned at the stake actually belonged to an Egyptian mummy.
| Source:
New York Times and Xinhua
|
| April 4, 2007 | -
British
scientists were “baffled” by the discovery of five-footed frogs.
| Source:
Breitbart.com
|
| March 27, 2007 | -
Austrian
scientists claimed that men who sleep in the same bed as their partners may suffer reduced mental function.
| Source:
iol.co.za
|
| February 23, 2007 | -
Scientists said “quasicrystalline” designs in medieval Iranian architecture indicated that Islamic scholars had made a mathematical breakthrough that Western scholars achieved only decades ago and concluded that ancient Iranian culture was very, very smart.
| Source:
Chicago Tribune
|
| February 23, 2007 | -
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University confirmed that mothers suffering from heartburn are likely to give birth to hairy newborns, and scientists in Senegal watched chimpanzees fashion spears from sticks and use their weapons to stab sleeping bush babies.
| Source 1:
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Source 2:
Washington Post
|
| February 2, 2007 | - Biological anthropologists speculated that male chimps living in communal “free love” simian societies attempt to control the sexuality of their female partners by beating them.
| Source:
Science Now
|
| January 26, 2007 | - A molecular scientist who owns a café announced that he had found a way to put caffeine in a donut.
| Source:
AP via NY Post
|
| January 25, 2007 | -
Scientists in Jena, Germany, who had been using spaghetti and cucumbers as bait to make a sloth climb up and down a pole, gave up after three years.
| Source:
AP
|
| January 17, 2007 | - Members of the Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists moved the hands on their “doomsday clock” two minutes closer to midnight.
| Source:
BBCnews.com
|
| January 15, 2007 | -
Scientists in London were working on a gum that suppresses appetite and fights obesity. “Obese people like chewing,” explained a researcher.
| Source:
BBCnews.com
|
| January 2, 2007 | -
Scientists were performing experiments to turn gay
sheep straight.
| Source:
Daily Telegraph
|
| December 7, 2006 | -
Scientists suspected that water was flowing on Mars.
| Source:
Washington Post
|
| December 7, 2006 | - Astronomers watched a giant black hole eat an entire star.
| Source:
Washington Post
|
| December 4, 2006 | -
Scientists discovered that the prehistoric Dunkleosteus terrelli, the “Darth Vader of fish,” had the strongest fish bite ever and could snack on sharks.
| Source 1:
BBC News
Source 2:
Washington Post
|
| December 4, 2006 | -
NASA head Michael Griffin compared space
explorers to Vikings. “Fifty years into it,” he explained, “the amount of progress that the Vikings had made would not have been that noticeable, and that's where we are in space flight today.”
| Source:
Washington Post
|
| November 28, 2006 | -
Researchers at the Stealthy Insect Sensor Project at Los Alamos National Laboratory announced that they had developed explosive-sniffing bees.
| Source:
CNN
|
| November 28, 2006 | -
Scientists said that a “primordial meteorite” may hold clues about the “raw organic molecules needed for life,” that humpback whales may be every bit as intelligent as humans, dolphins, and great apes, and that women speak three times as much as men.
| Source 1:
BBC
Source 2:
The Age
Source 3:
Daily Mail
|
| November 21, 2006 | -
Chinese
scientists revealed that showing pornography to pandas has helped increase the captive panda population; Vassar scientists said that they had successfully mated robot
fish.
| Source 1:
AP via Australian
Source 2:
Xinhua
|
| November 20, 2006 | - American scientists announced the creation of a self-aware robot that can heal itself.
| Source:
Information Week
|
| November 16, 2006 | - The Department of Health and Human Services refused to ensure that its reports on abstinence for young people were factually and scientifically accurate.
| Source:
TPM muckracker
|
| November 15, 2006 | - A researcher in Germany claimed that the swords of Damascus, which were made from a type of steel known as wootz, have a microstructure of carbon nanotubes.
| Source:
Nature
|
| November 2, 2006 | - Scientists claimed that at the current rate of consumption, global sea
food supplies will be obliterated by the year 2048.
| Source:
Washington Post
|
| October 24, 2006 | - The Reproductive Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, revealed that men who use their cell phones too much could be making themselves infertile.
| Source:
The Independent
|
| October 19, 2006 | -
Scientists identified more than 200 oceanic dead zones.
| Source:
local6.com
|
| October 19, 2006 | -
South Korean
scientists announced the development of a new genetically altered strain of adenovirus capable of destroying cancer cells.
| Source:
AFP via Breitbart
|
| October 16, 2006 | - In Panama, 22 people died from ingesting poisoned cough syrup that contained the industrial chemical diethylene glycol, rather than the safe solvent glycerin glycol.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| October 8, 2006 | - A Virginia
biology
teacher was suspended after compelling her students to pose with the bones of a century-old corpse in Pocahontas Cemetery.
| Source:
North Country Gazette
|
| October 6, 2006 | - Swiss researchers in Syria discovered the remains of an extinct species of giant camel.
| Source:
iol.co.za
|
| October 6, 2006 | - A new group called Scientists and Engineers for America vowed to promote a pro-science
president in 2008.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| October 3, 2006 | - John Mather and George Smoot won the Nobel Prize in physics for their research into cosmic microwave background radiation.
| Source:
Bloomberg.com
|
| September 28, 2006 | -
Muslim
scientists were called to jihad.
| Source:
AP via Yahoo! News
|
| September 26, 2006 | - A dinosaur species was cleared of cannibalism.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| September 26, 2006 | - Brain images showed that hysteria is real.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| September 20, 2006 | -
Researchers in Massachusetts successfully gave a mouse a tan without exposing it to the sun; other scientists partially restored the sight of blind rats.
| Source:
BBC News
|
| September 13, 2006 | -
Scientists in India announced that they had discovered a new species of bird.
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| September 5, 2006 | -
|
