Science Etcetera Moonday, 20080414

April 14th, 2008

Scientists are getting a good look at the insides of Lyuba, the mummified baby mammoth.

Lyuba
Photo by Bernard Buigues

Using the Nintendo Wii for Parkinson’s Occupational Therapy.

12,000-year-old safe sex?

Christian scientists were left out of the film Expelled because they “would have confused the film unnecessarily.”

A star so cool it blurs the line between stars and planets… guess we’ll have to call it a “Dwarf Star”–oh wait, we all ready are, and Pluto’s still not a planet.

Using an X-ray machine, Researchers in France have identified nearly 360 fossilized wasps, ants, and spiders from the age of dinosaurs in amber (video and pictures at the article).

3D extraction of organisms in amber
Image by ESRF

Finding a way to reboot part of the brain might lead to a way to cure methamphetamine addiction.

Test-tube grown meat. At least it’s more appetizing that Micky-D’s.

Pollution is causing flowers to lose their smell, which may explain why bees are in decline in parts of the world.

Optical, Quantum, DNA, Neuronal, and Water Wave are just some concepts for computers.

The AMC-14 commercial satellite failed to reach its geostationary orbit, and now it can’t be moved into that orbit Boeing owns the patent on the physics they need to use.

Who’d a thunk it? Fire-eating is a health hazard.

Oragami Cubed, it’s Flat-Fold Paper Models: