Crazy Russian Broads
Braving sub-zero temperatures, she has thrown caution — and her clothes — to the wind to tame two beluga whales in a unique and controversial experiment. Natalia Avseenko, 36, was persuaded to strip naked as marine experts believe belugas do [...]
Is there anything nanoparticles can’t do?
IBM Nanoparticle Breakthrough Destroys Drug-Resistant Bacteria IBM researchers created a new type of nanoparticles that are capable of destroying the membrane walls of certain drug-resistant bacteria strains, leaving the cells to harmlessly degrade without any trace. The new system works [...]
A biologist’s St. Patrick’s Day song
i’m both a bio-nerd and a beer-nerd so this is awesome to me
Release of Mosquitoes With Suicide Genes Attempt To Eradicate Dengue Fever
fuck mosquitoes…this is a long, but interesting article Release of Mosquitoes With Suicide Genes Attempt To Eradicate Dengue Fever Two months ago, in a remote province of Eastern Malaysia, genetically engineered mosquitoes were released into the wild in a two [...]
Orcas have been munching on some sharks
Killer whales’ taste for shark meat triggers dental disaster Until the 1990s, only two kinds of Orcas were seen in the inshore waters of British Columbia, he says: “resident whales,” which prefer delicacies such as salmon; and “transient whales,” which [...]
Researchers dress up as pandas
Scientists Dress Up as Pandas to Fool Them (and Us?) these pictures are amazing:
6 animals that don’t give a fuck
great article from cracked: 6 animals that dont give a fuck this might be my favorite part: And then there’s the cane toad: Not only will they regularly have sex with dead bodies, but they’ll even make sweet love to [...]
Yet another Ph.D comic that hits close to home
comic from november 5th
Tylenol-loaded mice dropped from air to control snakes
Tylenol-loaded mice dropped from air to control snakes Dead mice packed with acetaminophen, strapped to pieces of cardboard and dropped from helicopters may help control one of the big headaches for the Pacific island of Guam – the brown tree [...]
Are you a morning person? Your hair knows
this is cool Body-clock gene reveals sleep cycles with just a pluck, study says When the researchers tested the genes in the subjects’ follicles, they found that body-clock gene activity peaked right after a subject had woken up, regardless of [...]