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Ancient cave girl genome could crack Man's genetic puzzle Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:09:39 GMT Boffins pore over 500GB of data plastered onlineNearly 500GB of data from the DNA of an ancient girl has been published for the first time. The genetic information - made available for wider analysis by intrigued boffins - was extracted from her finger bone and tooth, which were unearthed in the Denisova Cave in Siberia in 2008.…
Greenpeace releases meaningless 'Cool IT' rankings Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:25:05 GMT Hippies' 'leaderboard' apparently made using dartboardAnalysis International hippie* collective Greenpeace has issued a "Cool IT leaderboard" of apparently randomly selected major firms which it has assigned meaningless self-generated scores intended to indicate how eco-friendly the companies are.… (image)
Russians drill into buried 20 million-year-old Antarctic lake Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:33:32 GMT Will boffins find prehistoric life - or secret Nazi files?Russian scientists have drilled through to a 20-million-year-old lake under Antarctica, which, depending on who you listen to, could harbour alien life forms, prehistoric microbes or Hitler's secret hideout.…
Chilli crab scoffing boffins build anti-cancer claw robot Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:22:12 GMT New stomach tumour busting gadget inspired by top Asian noshThe fight against cancer reached a weird new level after Singapore’s centuries-old chilli crab dish inspired boffins to build a tumour-removing robot.…
Prehistoric cricket love songs recreated for your listening pleasure Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:54:14 GMT Throbbing Jurassic passion returns in boffin-mungous featAn international team of top boffins has quite literally left no stone unturned in its efforts to answer a highly unusual question: Just what did the love songs of the Jurassic era really sound like?…
Boffins find prehistoric croc species with 'mate-attracting' skin helmet Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:17:03 GMT 'Shieldcrocs' mingled with dinosaursBone-bothering US boffins have identified a new species of prehistoric crocodile, nicknamed "Shieldcroc" because of a flat ornamental skin shield on its ginormous head.…
JEDI alliance: Jellyfish overlords won't rule Earth after all Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:13:26 GMT Blancmange invader threat turns out to be, erm, triflingThe worldwide jellyfish-threat trouser state was officially downgraded from "damp" to "wear again if necessary" yesterday as top international boffins - operating under the title "JEDI" - announced that in fact there is little evidence to suggest that planet Earth will soon be ruled by wobbling gelatinous blobominations.… (image)
Japan takes second shot at extraterrestrial sampling with Hayabusa 2 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:00:58 GMT Damp asteroid 1999 JU3 may hold clues to Earth’s lifeThe Japanese space agency (JAXA) has confirmed a new mission to collect samples from an asteroid and return them safely to earth, and has set the target as 1999 JU3 - one of the damper asteroids in range.…
Drink diet pop all the time? Look forward to VASCULAR DEATH Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:31:03 GMT New study reveals fatal consequences of mock-swill habitNews today calculated to disgruntle many a Reg reader – and some Reg hacks – as it has been revealed by boffinry that the daily glugging down of "diet" soft drinks increases the risk of "vascular events such as stroke, heart attack, and vascular death".…
Berkeley boffins crack brain wave code Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:21:08 GMT Electrical signals used to recreate sound heard by test subjectsScientists have reconstructed the words people hear by using a computer algorithm to decode electrical signals in the brain.…
Serial killer PYTHONS stalk Florida's Everglades Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:33:08 GMT Rapacious reptiles scoff mammal populationPesky pythons are wiping out mammals and birds – some of which are protected species – in Florida's Everglades National Park, according to a new study.…
iPhone doc will detect cancer, diabetes - boffins Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:22:10 GMT Touch screen literally meets bleeding-edge scienceA drop of blood or saliva can be analysed using an ordinary touch screen - and once boffins perfect the identification of biological molecules, then diagnosis by iPhone – or indeed any smartphone – isn't far off.… (image)
NHS unfurls condom app – for iPhone-toting teens Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:39:11 GMT Droid lovers will have to source their own love glovesKent's NHS Trust is hoping that youngsters' love of iPhones, coupled with a new app, will lead to a fall in teen pregnancies in the county.…
Try a 'shroom before ruling on chill pills, boffin tells gov Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:27:04 GMT Ministers 'irrational' on depression-busting hallucinogenThe government may never be able to “think rationally” about the therapeutic properties of hallucinogenic drugs, says Professor David Nutt. The top boffin was speaking on the publication of two new studies that show the anti-depressant qualities of magic mushrooms.…
iPad users 'risk shoulder pain', say US gov, Microsoft boffins Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:47:07 GMT Too much time fondling your slab will leave you stiffBoffins employed by the US Department of Environmental Health and Microsoft (among others) say that users of tablet computing devices – an area almost completely dominated at the moment by Apple's iPad, selling in unbelievable numbers – run a more serious risk of "neck and shoulder discomfort" compared to people using normal desktop kit.…
Dinosaurs were super mums, nest find proves Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:09:12 GMT Cold-blooded reptiles showed caring side - bone boffinsThey may have been cold-blooded, but it turns out dinosaurs were caring parents – arranging their eggs neatly and letting their scaly offspring stay in the nest until they had at least doubled in size.…
Alcohol DOUBLES LIFESPAN, helps resist stress Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:53:09 GMT We're filing this from the pub, naturallyPour yourself another one, quickly, as scientists have proven that alcohol can double life-span.… (image)
Ancient tulip-like stomach-onna-stick creatures found in Rockies Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:07:29 GMT Waving anus-tipped filter flowers covered Cambrian sea bottomFossil-boffins probing into the remains of a soft-bodied tulip animal that lived in the Rockies 500 million years ago have just published a paper revealing the secrets of the weird creature.…
American search team fails to find women's G-spot Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:22:04 GMT Dig finds no evidence for earth-moving equipmentUS researchers have concluded that there's little evidence to support the existence of the legendary Gräfenberg Spot - a bundle of nerves located in the front wall of the vagina which can supposedly cause the earth to move.…
Boffins dig up prehistoric popcorn in Peru Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:42:45 GMT Bit soggy now: Man wolfed down treat 6,700 years agoMankind was scoffing prehistoric popcorn 1,000 years earlier than previously thought, reckons a top archaeologist.…
Phages: The powerful new bio-ammo in superbug war Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:32:11 GMT Keep calm and carry on researchThey're the most abundant form of life on Earth – they have astonishing properties – and we know bugger-all about them.…
Pollution-gobbling molecules in global warming SMACKDOWN Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:17:58 GMT Boffins: Newly observed particles scrub our filthy airElusive pollution-busting molecules are scrubbing our planet's atmosphere at a much faster rate than first imagined, according to gas-bothering boffins.… (image)
Golden booty-shakin' bug named after pop diva Beyoncé Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:32:10 GMT That ass is flyHot pic American popular music luminary Beyoncé has had a species of horse fly named after her in honour of the one-time Destiny Child singer's celebrated bottom.…
X Prize: Build a Star Trek 'tricorder' and win $10m Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:02:08 GMT CATCH: It has to work...CES 2012 Make a portable body scanner that can detect 15 diseases and capture key health metrics and you could win 10 million dollars (£.6.5m).…
Tiny frog claimed as smallest vertebrate ever Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:50:02 GMT Mine's smaller, yells irate ichthyologist*Boffins have found what they believe to be the world's smallest vertebrate. The tiny amphibian was discovered when scientists grabbed some leaves from the forest floor in Papua New Guinea and shoved them in a plastic bag.…
Boffins hack evolution, create SUPERSOLDIER ANTS Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:30:28 GMT Genetic prestidigitation could engineer new speciesResearchers in Canada have created a new type of supersoldier ant by activating genetic material from long-dead forms of life.…
World's first mixed-embryo rhesus monkeys born in US Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:42:53 GMT Normal, healthy chimeric primates created during stem cell researchGenetic researchers have created the world's first chimeric monkeys, primates who were created from a combination of cells from separate rhesus monkey embryos.… (image)
Parasites spark swarm of ZOMBIE BEES Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:59:30 GMT California infestation grave, declare buzz boffinsResearchers have found a type of parasite that turns bees into zombies, causing them to exhibit strange behavior before dying.…
Boffins glue self-righting ROBO-VELOCIRAPTOR tail to car Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:05:09 GMT Leaping lizards inspire super stable search botsBiologists at the University of California in Berkeley have stuck an intelligent robotic tail on a toy car in an attempt to make clumsy droids of the future more stable.…
Vomit virus drives punters to NHS Choices over Christmas Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:03:10 GMT NHS Choices attracted 56% more users, many on their mobesThe Department of Health (DoH) has reported a 56 per cent increase in the number of people using NHS Choices in October to December 2011 compared to the same period last year.…
Boffins drill into human language by terrifying chimps with vipers Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:29:12 GMT Primates holler only if friends are unaware of snakesChimps don't just blurt out whatever is on their mind - they consider who's listening, says an article published in Current Biology that could reveal an important stage in the development of language.…
Three more 'nauts prepare for space station housewarming Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:42:11 GMT Crew blasts off tomorrow in time for weightless XmasThe second half of the International Space Station's Expedition 30 crew is getting ready to blast off tomorrow to dock with the station in time for Christmas.… (image)
North America makes entry into dino fatty league Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:19:19 GMT 73-tonne dino is US's biggest yetSeems like Americans have been fatties for longer than we thought. The heaviest creature to have walked on land lived in New Mexico circa the Late Cretaceous period, according to an article by Montana State Uni researchers.…
Eyes on stalks: ancient predator a real monster Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:00:06 GMT Throw this shrimp on the barbieA group of scientists working on fossils from Kangaroo Island in South Australia has turned up a Cambrian predator with horror-movie specs: razor serrations in a circular mouth, claws at the front of its head, and compound eyes on stalks.…
New species of dinosaur discovered... in museum Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:27:21 GMT Dusty fossil of horny Canadian beastBone-bothering boffins have discovered an entirely new species of horned dinosaur, despite having parts of its skull for the last hundred years.…
Boffing boffins create 3D map of orgasmic female brain Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:34:20 GMT Women are complicated. Who knew?A team at Rutgers University claims that women use up to 80 different points in their brain when orgasming, a discovery achieved by mapping the moment in 3D using a MRI scanner.…
Bumblebee boffins rediscover long-vanished species Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:39:25 GMT Rare US insect had not been seen since 1956Scientists have rediscovered an extremely rare species of bumblebee in the US, which hasn't been seen since 1956.…
Microsoft researchers build spam filter for HIV Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:14:24 GMT Turns out spammers behave a lot like deadly virus...Researchers at Microsoft have discovered that tools first developed to fight email spam can be applied in helping to understand how the process by which HIV mutates to avoid attack by the immune system.…
UK.gov to require YOU to opt out of data-sharing plan with drug firms Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:44:06 GMT Confidential NHS records to be 'opened up'Plans to share confidential NHS records with private medical researchers have been revealed by Prime Minister David Cameron.…
NASA confirms first Earth candidate in habitable zone Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:22:38 GMT Kepler finds Earth 2.0 just 600 light years awayNASA’s Kepler mission has spotted the first possibility for a planet to escape to if it turns out the Mayans were right about 2012.…
Japan, Russia in plan for elephant to birth CLONE MAMMOTH Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:46:08 GMT Dumbo surrogate crucial to Pleistocene Park schemeJapanese and Russian boffins are planning to impregnate an elephant with a mammoth embryo cloned from viable fossil DNA discovered frozen beneath the icy Siberian tundra, according to reports.…
UK cops seek boffins to build handheld DNA sniffer kit Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:22:02 GMT Just zoom and enhance - like CSI on the tellyThe National Policing Improvement Agency wants to hear from companies that can supply Blighty's cops with mobile tech that spots DNA.…
'I'm the first to admit that we've made a bunch of mistakes' Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:03:10 GMT Plus 'The last Kardashian clan I heard of were on Star Trek'Quotw This was the week when an Android app developer claimed he had conclusive proof that millions of smartphones are secretly logging key presses, locations and even messages.…
Toads predict earthquakes: Official Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:18:11 GMT React to positive airborne ions, boffins explainScientists believe they have a plausible explanation for Italian toads' apparent ability to sense the imminent earthquake that struck the city of L'Aquila on 6 April 2009.…
Printed-out dissolving bones, teeth work well in rats Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:37:05 GMT Ready for slotting into people in a decade, seeminglyScientists have developed a way to make bones and teeth using an inkjet printer. The printed bones are doing well in rats and rabbits and the engineering team at the Washington State University predict that their bony print-outs could be in mainstream use in human medicine in as little as 10 years.…
Ravens' secret sign code probed Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:56:05 GMT Saying 'nevermore' etc with beak gesture, seeminglyA conspiracy of ravens may be conspiring more than we ever thought, as researchers have discovered that the carrion-scoffing birds use their beaks to gesture and communicate.…
British garbage worms survive in space without human help Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:11:10 GMT Extraterrestrial nematode freed from mankind's dominanceA worm family that originated in a rubbish dump in Bristol has successfully returned from a space mission, proving for the first time that worms can survive untended in space.…
US boffins unleash piezoelectric insect cyborg Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:34:05 GMT 'Leccy-generating beetle for hazardous missionsScientists from the University of Michigan's College of Engineering have developed a prototype insect cyborg with an eye to one day using electricity-generating six-legged critters to venture forth into potentially hazardous environments.…
Jarmageddon: Marmite spill sparks biohazard threat Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:12:10 GMT Lorry crash jams M1, leaves cops in the brown stuffA flood of yeast extract has blocked the M1 motorway in South Yorkshire after a truck containing the Marmite ingredient crashed and spilled its load.…
Biology miss punts homemade smut to pupils Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:51:06 GMT USB stick blunder unleashes X-rated personal vidsA group of Argentinian schoolkids copped a righteous eyeful of smut last week when their female biology* teacher handed them a USB memory stick containing a couple of vids of her going hammer and tongs with her boyfriend.… |
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