Feb 09 2010

Botox May Paralyze Reaction to Negative Emotions

Tag: Cosmetic Treatments, Emotions, SkinCristen Conger @ 5:00 am
Are emotions only skin deep?

Feb 08 2010

Celebrity Deaths: Homicidal and Accidental

Tag: Crime, Current Events, Drugs and Alcohol, Mental HealthBenjamin Radford @ 11:02 pm
Everybody dies, but even after celebrities shuffle off this mortal coil their deaths get the Hollywood gloss. The King of Pop, Michael Jackson, didn’t die of a drug overdose; he was killed. This morning, one of Jackson’s physicians, Dr. Conrad ...

Feb 08 2010

Digital ‘Fort Knox’ Hacked

Tag: Army, Computers, Laptops, Military, SpiesDiscovery News - Top Stories @ 10:05 pm
A hacking specialist reveals a weakness that can force heavily secured computers to spill their secrets.

Feb 08 2010

When Earth Swallows a Continent

Tag: Geology, GeophysicsMichael Reilly @ 8:39 pm
Earth can do strange things to continents. Like eat them, for example. Previously, the planet's hot interior was only known to have an appetite for ocean crust, consuming it in subduction zones around the world. Continental crust was thought to ...

Feb 08 2010

Spaced-Out Super Bowl Ads 2010

Tag: Asteroids, Humor, MeteoritesIan O'Neill @ 8:03 pm
The Super Bowl is over, the Saints won, but most importantly, were the commercials any good? (Is it me, or is Danica Patrick wearing less and less clothing every year?) On Friday I gave a brief rundown of some of ...

Feb 08 2010

‘Thirdhand Smoke’ May Pose Health Risk

Tag: Cancer, Health, Health and Illness, Lung CancerEmily Sohn @ 8:01 pm
If smokers needed yet another reason to take it outside, here it is.

Feb 08 2010

Older Mothers More Likely to Bear Autistic Children

Tag: Father, Infant, Mother, Pregnancy, Pregnancy IssuesDiscovery News - Top Stories @ 5:10 pm
As births to older mothers have increased, so has the number of autism cases.

Feb 08 2010

Ultra-Micro Wind: Coming to a Downtown Near You

Tag: UncategorizedChris Davis @ 5:02 pm
Ultra-Micro Urban Architectural Wind. A clumsy name for really small wind power; smaller even than the residential turbines sometimes pressed into service in the urban environment (because wind makes so much sense in these places, even if the technology doesn't ...

Feb 08 2010

Super Beans Aim for the Sky

Tag: Family Farms, Food Sources, Green TechAlyssa Danigelis @ 4:42 pm
I have some exciting bean news that bodes well for struggling smallholder farmers in Africa. The Rwanda Agricultural Research Institute announced that it has unveiled 15 varieties of climbing beans that put the common "bush bean" in the dust. The ...

Feb 08 2010

Friday News Feedbag for February 5, 2010!

If this is your first exposure to the Friday News Feedbag...we're glad to have you in the club. Welcome to Feedbag Nation, which stems from our weekly science news podcast that you can subscribe to here on iTunes and chat ...

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