Science Links for Mercuryday, 20091118

Posted on 18th November 2009 by ideonexus in Science Etcetera
  • Buckyballs, nanotubes, and now the latest popular carbon-based molecule: graphene, which looks like chicken wire.
    • Graphene Sheet
    Graphene Sheet
    Credit: Berkeley Lab
  • “Female Viagra” is a drug designed to combat depression but it also increases a woman’s libido by working on the brain, poetically known as the body’s largest erogenous zone.
  • As CO2 emissions rose 29 percent between 2000 and 2008, the Earth is on course for 6 degrees Celsius of warming.
  • The “Lung Flute” is an instrument you play to clear mucus from your lungs.
  • The fat-tailed dunnart improves its chances of survival by basking in the Sun like a lizard, reducing its need for food and water while living in the desert.
    • Common Dunnart
    Common Dunnart
    Credit: Doug Beckers
  • One in ten people who are obese don’t know it and don’t realize they need to lose weight.
  • CT scans of 22 mummies, some around 3,000 years old, detected hardening of the arteries in five of them, meaning heart disease is nothing new.
  • Cryonics Estate Planning involves using your life insurance to freeze yourself and then leave the remainder to yourself as the inheritor, but it’s tricky since the state considers you legally dead.
  • Man vs. Electricity: Meet Dr. Megavolt:
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