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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.
- Travolta Solves Global Warming - March 30, 2007 → Pulp Fiction star and scientologist says move to another planet to solve global warming.
- Condom testers wanted - March 29, 2007 → All comers welcome
- Booze, carbs, eggs - March 29, 2007 → Alernative healthy eating
- Worrying mercury bulbs - March 29, 2007 → Mercury concern for environmental lightbulbs
- Blue brain - March 27, 2007 → Swiss artificial brain not full of holes
- Hexagonal Space Weather - March 27, 2007 → Spotted: strange saturnine storm
- Vitamin C Free Ribena - March 27, 2007 → Science project rumbles Ribena
- Identical but different - March 26, 2007 → Semi-identical twins found
- Creatine and Parkinson’s disease - March 22, 2007 → Could bodybuilders’ drug treat Parkinson’s?
- Portuguese first Europeans in Australia - March 22, 2007 → Not Brits, Dutch, French…
- Pocket DNA test - March 20, 2007 → Is that a lab in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?
- Legal High Alert - March 20, 2007 → Agency warning on BZP (benzylpiperazine) pep natural high
- Questioning global temperature - March 19, 2007 → Is rising global temperature an absurdity?
- Chlorine gas attack - March 17, 2007 → Eight killed, hundreds injured in Iraq gas attacks
- Wear sunscreen for the next generation - March 16, 2007 → Not for the easily offended, but some good lines
- Here kitty, kitty - March 15. 2007 → New big cat discovered in Borneo
- Universe popped up to say hello - March 15, 2007 → Hawking reckons Universe emerged from “nothing”
- Childhood obesity and lack of exercise - March 14, 2007 → Diet and genes, not lack of sport to blame for overweight children
- Carbon bond - March 13, 2007 → UK set to be first to reduce carbon, legally
- Nervous Tick for Sound Science - March 12, 2007 → Could nerve impulses be sound not electricity?
- Memory wipe - March 12, 2007 → Scientists wipe single memory in rats
- Obesity feeds appetite - March 9, 2007 → Overweight causes destruction of appetite suppression
- Sperm killer - March 8, 2007 → It’s a case for the spermicide squad
- Keeping asteroids at bay - March 7, 2007 → A tug job or a big blow, what’s best?
- Melting Mars - March 5, 2007 → Global warming on Mars, could sun be to blame for Earthly problems
- Diplomatic immunity - March 2, 2007 → Aristocrat’s body may provide flu clue
- Marijuana medicine - March 1, 2007 → Pot hailed as wonder drug
- British gas may contain silicon - March 02, 2007 → Worried drivers learn of possible silicon contamination in fuel
- Sir David supports human-cows - February 28, 2007 → UK chief scientist backs hybrid research
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