Stop blogging for a couple of days and you get so far behind it's almost silly. In an attempt to catch up without staying up all night, I've quickly put together the science-related articles that I've come across in the past few days. Enjoy!
- A Guardian article about attempts to save the Vancouver Island Marmot that involved shooting six golden eagles.
- Canadian lynx, on the other hand, are having their genetics altered by climate change.
- Scientists at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have found that the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, one of the major greenhouse gases, has reached a record high.
- ABC reports a group of scientists convinced that climate change, not global terrorism, is the greatest threat to Western civilization.
- Apparently the drink of choice for King Tut in the afterlife was red wine.
- Dailmer-Chrysler is testing a vibrating pedal system that could increase fuel efficiency by reminding you when your driving is unnecessarily using too much gas.
- The weapon that experts fear from terrorists turns out not to be pathogens or suitcase nukes, but fuel-air bombs.
- A company in Missouri has come up with a way to 'defuse' fertilizer from being useful to construct bombs like the one used in the Oklahoma City bombing.
- Physicists at the Hardon-Electron Ring Accelerator in Germany believe they have created a new massive subatomic particle.
- A new exhibit in England called Spaced Out will attempt to create the world's largest scale model of the solar system.
- Eating a lot of canned white tuna? You might want to reconsider due to a joint FDA/EPA warning about mercury levels in various fish, including shark and swordfish.
- The Washington Post published an article about the massive reaction to the news that the Hubble is going to be scrapped.
- NASA engineers have found a potentially disastrous flaw in the space shuttle's rudder that has been around for almost 20 years. Apparently it was installed backwards.
- A European-Chinese satellite is probing Earth's magnetic field, watching for how it interacts with solar flares.
- The central desert of Australia is so much like Mars in its terrain that an international group of scientists known as the Mars Society are planning to build a space research center there.
- The Mars rover is atop what NASA scientists believe was once the shore of a salty Martian sea.
- A very detailed picture of the heart of a comet was just taken by the NASA spacecraft Stardust.
- Paleoanthropologists believe they have found evidence showing that humans controlled fire up to 1.5 million years ago.
- Dutch scientists have uncovered a new coronovirus, a cousin to SARS that does not exhibit the pneumonia symptoms but is still a risk to younger patients and those with compromised immune systems.
- New gels may work to prevent people from contracting AIDS during sexual intercourse.
- As if you didn't have enough reasons not to smoke, new research shows that it can also cause brain decline in the elderly.
- An attempt to clone an extinct species by Australian scientists might be the first step towards the end of the idea of extinction.
- Research into the wings of Pterosaurs might influence the design of modern airplane wings.
- You only use 10% of your brain, right? Not really.
- In good news, the growth in world population is increasing at a decreasing rate.
- Home and Garden TV in Canada brings you 10 ways that you can recycle and reuse items that you might not otherwise think about.
- People in Western Canada apparently got a good view of a meteor coming to earth the other day.
- Heath Canada is organizing a pilot project in British Columbia that will make marijuana available in pharmacies. Apparently you can get 30 grams for $150, which at $5/gram is half the 'going' rate for a bulk buy.
- Western Australia at the same time has passed a law effectively decriminalizing marijuana.
- A Harvard University psychologist has theorized that dreams are more likely to be about subjects that we consciously block in the daytime.
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