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The latest science extra Geeky Bits news from Sciencebase's David Bradley. The most recent 30 days of news snippets, worthies and oddities, as well as other items of interest that didn't make it on to the Sciencebase Science Blog homepage because I was (a) too busy to do a full write-up (b) too lazy to do a full write-up (c) too bored to do a full write-up. Visit the Science Extra Geeky Bits Archive for all items posted during the last year.
- Stonehenge Building Site - January 30, 2007 → Six sugars please
- Eyes Wide Shut - January 30, 2007 → Could orexin (hypocretin) missing in narcolepsy help insomniacs
- Comfort foods comfort shock - January 29, 2007 → Sad people find comfort in comfort foods
- Elemental Revival - January 26, 2007 → UK chemical renaissance, thanks to RSC
- Iguana and Viagra Don’t Go There - January 26, 2007 → Mozart will lose penis because of week-long priapism
- Memory Cramming - January 25, 2007 → 160,000 bits in blood cell sized device
- New schizophrenia treatment - January 24, 2007 → Discovery heralds possible new drugs
- Satellite link - January 23, 2007 → China admits to shooting “down” satellite
- Cats catch bird flu - January 22, 2007 → Dozens of Indonesian cats infected with H5N1
- Women shun cancer test - Britain - January 22, 2007 → “Intrusive” smear test avoided, cancers undetected
- Life-extending resveratrol drugs - January 20, 2007 → Red wine extract, too good to be true?
- Spam Wars - January 20, 2007 → Guess who’s back?
- Jupiter on the Horizon - January 19, 2007 → Probe will bear down, head for Pluto
- Cancer Drug without Patent - January 18, 2007 → Lack of commercial gain could stymie side-effect free cancer drug, dichloroacetate (DCA)
- Cancer Fall Off - January 18, 2007 → Cancer deaths fall for second year
- Malarial Resistance - January 17, 2007 → Even strict controls cannot prevent spread
- Moore-ish Law Broken - January 17, 2007 → Hewlett Packard claims to have broken Moore’s Law
- Kill liver cells, revitalise liver - January 15, 2007 → Ongoing research shows simple drug regenerates diseased liver
- Marriage + $$$ = :-) - January 16, 2007 → Marriage and money equal happiness
- Test tube baby has baby - January 16, 2007 → First IVF baby, Louise Brown, gives birth to baby boy
- Fresh beer in the greenhouse - January 15, 2007 → Global warming could ruin beer, but for malty preservatives
- Procrastination, that’s the name of the game - January 15, 2007 → News about procrastination came in on the 10th and I was going to post it then, but…
- Chew Yourself Slim - January 15, 2007 → Chewing gum with appetite-reducing hormone could make you slim
- Alzheimer Gene - January 15, 2007 → New gene for dementia disease found
- Dressed for sex - January 12, 2007 → Californian scientists find fertile women dress to impress
- Lower Cholesterol Through Diet - January 12, 2007 → Nutritional advice for cutting LDL
- UK Delays Hybrid Embryo Decision - January 11, 2007 → Human-cows still on hold
- Canned heat - January 12, 2007 → Nuclear waste eats its container, takes centuries
- Scientists Catch Trich - January 12, 2007 → First STD genome
- Asteroid Threat - January 11, 2007 → We’re all doooomed…
- What Is the Top Medical Advance - January 10, 2007 → SciGuy highlights BMJ survey
- Exploring the Mind-Body Orgasm - January 10, 2007 → A multiple view of the orgasm from Wired
- EU Plans Industrial Revolution - January 10, 2007 → Yet more hot air about global warming, expect a cool response
- Cocaine found on 99.9% of British banknotes - January 8, 2007 → Mass spec study finds charlie on cash
- Ramadan Fasting Alters Arsenic Metabolism January 8, 2007 → Annual festival defers toxic hit for many on Indian sub-continent
- Ten Most Underreported Humanitarian Crises - January 8, 2007 → Report reveals worst afflications of humanity, with several oversighs
- NASA Finds Life on Mars, Kills it! January 08, 2007 → Early Martian probes may have spotted life, but destroyed it in the process
- Gas Giants Jump into Planet Formation Early - January 08, 2007 → Jupiter-sized planetary formation
- Molecular Anatomy of Influenza Virus - December 29, 2006 → Sophisticated imaging technique reveals flu virus structure
- Crazy Inventions - January 9, 2007 → Oddities from presumably even odder inventors
- New study sheds light on ‘dark states’ in DNA - January 9, 2007 → Genetic dark matter studied
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