SoT 100: Intrauterine Cannibalization

May 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Sand tiger shark (Carcharias taurus) at the Newport Aquarium. Image: Jeff Kubina / WikiMedia Commons

Shark babies kill each other before their even born, fishy gestures, misused science words, genetically modified salmon, and the traces of supernovae in bacteria.

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SoT 99: Are They Good Eating?

May 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The head of a coelacanth, Natural History Museum (London). Scientists have sequenced the living fossil's genome, giving clues about the evolution of limbs. Image: Pascalou petit / WikiMedia Commons

Inoculating babies with ‘good’ bacteria, the genome of the coelacanth gives clues to limb evolution, conscious babies and more!

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SoT 98: WIMPs and MACHOs

April 26, 2013 By 2 Comments
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer onboard the International Space Station. Image: NASA".

Dark matter, rain on Venus, Otzi’s bad teeth, red meat and heart attacks, and the folk remedy that may combat bed bugs.

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SoT 97: Hypnopompic Hippopotamuses

April 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The newly discovered species of tarantula, a male Poecilotheria rajaei, with a 20 centimetre leg-span. Image: Ranil Nanayakkara / British Tarantula Society via WikiMedia Commons.

$100m for BRAIN research, dream interpretation, procuring drugs for research and more!

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SoT 96: Street View Is Here

April 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Fairy circles in the Marienflusstal area in Namibia. Could these bizarre shapes be made by termites? Image: Stephan Getzin / WikiMedia Commons

The immortal controversy over HeLa cells, horse hepatitis mystery, seven sexes and fairy circles!

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SoT 95: Bacterial Hugs

April 2, 2013 By 2 Comments
Roller Derby game between the Cherry Bombs (Green) vs Rhinestone Cowgirls (Red) on Aug 27, 2011, in Austin, Texas. Image: Earl McGehee / WikiMedia Commons

Where’s Voyager? Roller derby and bacteria, 3-donor IVF, bacteria that commit suicide and the real age of the Universe.

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SoT 94: Save The Fat Bottomed Slug

March 26, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The now-extinct Gastric Brooding Frog gave birth through its mouth. Image: Mike Tyler / University of Adelaide

Should we bring back extinct animals? The CDC warns about ‘nightmare bacteria’, plus windfarms, Tassie devils and more!

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SoT 92: Vulcan Rat Mind-Meld

March 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Scientists at Duke University were able to get one rat (left) to transmit instructions to another (right) via brain-to-brain wiring. Image:

Brain-to-brain communication between rats, the genetic impact of lack of sleep, old people on Mars, undersea vents and more!

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SoT 91: Spiders, Snakes and Dead Mice in Guam

March 5, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Flowers can communicate with bees through an electric field. Image: Stefan-Xp via WikiMedia Commons.

A tiny planet, the ultimate flu vaccine, the bees are a-buzzing and dead mice are a-dropping, plus lots more!

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SoT 90: An Ice Core of Pee

February 25, 2013 By 2 Comments
A Yellow-spotted Rock Hyrax, living in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. It pees goop, and always in the same spot. Image: Rieselsteinchen (WikiMedia Commons)

A small animal’s toilet habits provide piles of data, the not-so-useless appendix, eathquakes, poison, oral bacteria, evolution and heaps more!

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