Researchers in Oregon claim to have solved the tricky problem of cloning human stem cells, but you're more likely to see a duplicate of a years-old ethics debate — destroyed embryos or lives saved, Bush bans or Obama battles — than you are a duplicate human.
Inspired by Edwards' popular Tumblr, Fake Science, his recent book Fake Science 101 follows in the ever-growing trend of parodies and blogs-to-books. "Science is the beginning of a conversation," he writes. We talked to him to find out what the fake stuff can teach us about the real—in science, of course, but also in the broader book world.
We've constantly been told that obesity is one of the leading causes of health problems in the United States, today the Wall Street Journal reports on a new wrinkle on that obesity-health connection, as they found that some hospitals don't have equipment strong enough to deal with their injured, obese patients.
People are always talking about the lasting impact of investing in science, but how far does the government dollar really stretch? At least 15 years, according to this graph on astronomy grants by University of Washington grad student James R. A. Davenport.
Discovered: remote-control cockroaches; female snakes that don't need a partner to reproduce; anti-obesity campaigns engender stigma; deaf gerbils given stem cell transplants hear.
While you've probably heard of the expensive treatments likes Rogaine and Propecia, the latest hair loss remedy is so simple it's silly: Vitamin D.
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Stats in from a new paper show that between 2006 and 2011 between 4 percent and 13 percent of the earth's surface has been covered by extreme heat.
It's completely fascinating that, in a time when our laptops can give us a close-up satellite view of nearly anywhere on earth, scientists could just be discovering a geologic feature the size of the Grand Canyon.
Sorry. No, thanks. We'll take a little bruising and browning over the Arctic Apple--a genetically buffed super fruit designed to give you perfect-looking apple slices every single time.
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Let's face it, the biggest and most important physics discovery in the past 30 years is old news. So let's move on to the next sexiest physics mystery, who exactly is going get science's biggest prize for the Higgs boson discovery?
Now that Higgs boson discovery afterglow has faded, what are physics fans going to talk about? Well, the Nobel Prize for starters.
We're not even going to try and explain the significance of the Higgs boson discovery observation, but we did an find a lot of non-sciencey things that the Higgs boson taught us, which is a lot easier than explaining gammas, sigmas, and hadrons.
Picky females playing hard to get, overly-aroused alpha males striking out, and a culture of casual sex--no this isn't a your sad, typical bar scene, it's what cheetah-breeding zoos have to deal with to save this endangered cat.
What's one thing CERN scientists can do to pique interest in their maybe-spoiled, already-hotly anticipated Higgs boson announcement tomorrow? Leak a video possibly confirming discovery, then promptly take it away.
Today we found out that there's proof that the Higgs boson is out there. But you probably knew that if you were following the physics world's best gossips who broke the news two weeks ago.
We already know how bad mosquitos are: The itchy bites, that awful buzz, the Dengue fever and Malaria. But if the only way to eliminate these bastards was to put your trust in genetically-engineered versions, would that be a risk worth taking?
Scientists at CERN are being a little gun-shy even as it appears that they'll announce they have proof of the Higgs boson—the building block of all matter—but are stopping short of calling it a "discovery."
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Lonesome George, a giant and awesome tortoise believed to be the last of his subspecies, died on Sunday at the Galapagos National Park.
Someone has unearthed footage from the early times of man, when beings were only just starting to confront the complicated realities of scientific experimentation and wearing lipstick at the same time.
This evening, Venus will slide into alignment with the orbits of the Earth and the Sun. This will not happen again until the year 2117, when we will all be dead.
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Researchers say that giant bluefin tuna captured off the coast of the U.S. last fall contained trace amounts of cesium-134, a radioactive element released into the ocean by the quake-damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant.
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Science news! Scientists running the Large Hadron Collider, aka the "big bang machine", announced Friday they've discovered a brand new particle during one of their experiments.
Discovered: Definitive proof that the IQ gene exists, women are the moral sex, America has the world's saltiest food and the right way to respond to an earthquake.
Discovered: Urine isn't sterile, is there a nice gene?, a better way to cool gadgets and there's one good thing about a black fly bite.
Discovered: A link between autism and maternal obesity, computer science confirms Super Mario brothers is hard, a childhood obesity gene, and there's something funky on the sun.
Discovered: Everyone thinks they're skinnier than they are, a big Cystic Fibrosis breakthrough, dialysis isn't very sexy and money, not race, explains gap in life expectancy.
Discovered: There's nasty stuff in our chicken that shouldn't be there, a more sustainable replacement for whale vomit, Florida's pythons are getting hungry and Earth doesn't want humans to get into its copper stash.
Discovered: Red wine just keeps getting better, an unexpected link between Google and GDP, old people are using more drugs than ever and water can now float on oil.
Discovered: Early BPA exposure has some nasty effects for adults, a new feathery dinosaur, preschoolers don't play outside enough and the longer the commercial the better.
Discovered: A twin baby boom, college leads to better health, how to turn skinny babies into skinny adults, and a PTSD gene.
Discovered: Eating McDonald's will make you very sad, preventing cancer is easy, the Earth's clock is all wrong, and picky women help a species survival.
Discovered in green: The ocean is getting warmer, the coral reef might be okay, actually, probably not, and stop fishing so much.
Discovered: An artificial skin that could make robots feel, babies are not as rational as we thought, good news for nerds: smart people finish first, and a molecule for weight loss.
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Discovered: The first image of one billion stars, a new high for Autism diagnoses, some fishing advice and Lucy's cousins.
Discovered: Sitting all day will kill you, should we be eating placenta?, a coral-reef herpes outbreak, and a resistant form of breast cancer.
Discovered: Eating chocolate keeps you thin, a type of plastic that fixes itself, an incredible facial transplant, and machines can tell if you're lying.
Discovered: Crazy weather has a lot to do with climate change, why we like sad movies, another invisibility cloak (sort of), what made humans start walking less like apes and more like humans and black holes are rude.
Discovered: OB-GYNs aren't talking about sex enough, living alone is depressing, C-sections are too expensive, and there's a new type of land mass in town.
Chilean technicians exploded the top off of Las Campanas Peak in the Atacama Desert to begin the construction of a telescope ten times as powerful as the Hubble on Friday morning.
Discovered: Venice is sinking, record low TB cases, more evidence that breast cancer screenings work, and very speedy planets.
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