• Starving with a smile: Engineering Food With Aromas That Make Us Feel Full Engineering Food With Aromas That Make Us Feel FullUsually the enticing smell of food is associated with hunger pangs, but researchers in the Netherlands think that foods can be engineered to release...
• Let the Sun shine in: Adding lithium to the water supply Excerpts:Our obsession with preventing all suffering could result one day in being involuntarily drugged with a psychotropic. According to the New York Times Magazine, scientists are seriously...
• Don't blame the internet for extremism Concerns about YouTube users being recruited by jihadis shouldn't lead us to treat the internet as a 'battlespace'The arrest last week of five young American men in Sargodha, Pakistan has reopened...
• Keep 'em high and distracted: Teens smoking more pot, less tobacco Cigarette smoking is out but pot use is in among the nation's teenagers, who also report a higher use of prescription painkillers and a waning perception about the risk of illicit drugs, a federal...
• Hackers declare war on international forensics tool: Microsoft's COFEE decaffeinated Hackers have released software they say sabotages a suite of forensics utilities Microsoft provides for free to hundreds of law enforcement agencies across the globe. Decaf is a light-weight...
• Darpa's Cyborg Insect Spies, Now Nuclear-Powered When you write for Popular Science, it's easy to become desensitized to wild and crazy future tech. To wit: When I first heard that Darpa wanted to develop cyborg insects to carry surveillance...
• Roche accused of withholding Tamiflu trial data Excerpts:Review published in British Medical Journal accuses flu drug manufacturer Roche of withholding evidence from trialsRoche, the manufacturer of Tamiflu, has made it impossible for scientists...
• Mass cannibalism evidence found in Germany (Press TV) -- Archaeologists have unearthed 500 human remains in Germany as evidence of mass cannibalism in Europe's early Neolithic period. The archaeologists have discovered rare evidence of mass...
• Pentagon: Zombie Pigs First, Then Hibernating Soldiers Around half of U.S. troop fatalities are caused by blood loss from battlefield injuries. Now, with another 30,000 troops deploying to Afghanistan, the Pentagon is pushing for medical advances that...
• Drug-Makers Paying Off Competitors To Keep Cheap Generics Off Market Republicans and their allies in the business community talk a good game about the virtues of free-market competition. But, as we've seen in the debate over the public option, that stance often goes...
• THE BIGGEST DEMOCRACY: India plans its own net snoop system On the anniversary of the Mumbai terror attacks, the Indian government has announced its own version of the UK's Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP) - a massive expansion of communications...
• It is not the size that counts: Intelligence poorly related to brain size British scientists say they've found brain size is much less related to the complexity of an organism's thought and behavior than is currently assumed.Professor Lars Chittka of the Queen Mary's...
• "Bless" thy mind Darwin: First edition of Darwin book sells for $170,569 (Press TV) -- A rediscovered first edition of Charles Darwin's revolutionary book has fetched $170,569 at a Christie's auction in the British capital of London. The copy of On the Origin of Species...
• Global Warning: Leaked “Climate Fraud” emails under probe Comment: Global warming has been politically utilized to coverup the reality of Peak Oil. World Oil Production Peaked in 2008Hackers have tried to prove that global warming researchers are...
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