Flesh and Stone: Weird Science


Bees voted most ‘irreplaceable species’ in the world
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Kathlyn Stone on 28 November, 2008 11:19:00
 
European scientists draw attention to global plight of bees at Earthwatch
debate.

U.S. researchers roll out fluorescent cat 2.0
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Kathlyn Stone on 28 October, 2008 10:20:00
 
Mr. Green Genes may be the United States’ first fluorescent cat, but South
Korean researchers at Gyeongsang National University in Seoul first introduced
the world to glow-in-the-dark cats in December 2007.  Korean scientists not only
manipulated the genes of cats to make them fluorescent, they also claimed to
clone them.

Robotics engineers endow flowers with animal-like behavior
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Kathlyn Stone on 19 September, 2008 05:20:00
 
Cyberflora contain sensors that detect the presence of visitors and make the
flowers respond in a certain way.

Weird government science policies
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Kathlyn Stone on 10 August, 2008 09:50:00
 
From HIV to missile defense to wildlife management, the Bush administration’s
policies that should be science-based have been called weird, unfeasible,
secretive, non-scientific, reckless, arbitrary, capricious and bankrupting.

The Anima Project puts clairvoyance and precognition under mathematical scrutiny
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Kathlyn Stone on 01 June, 2008 09:00:00
 
Believers and skeptics invited to take part in testing.

Electronic tongue distinguishes between top shelf and rip-offs
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Kathlyn Stone on 16 February, 2008 06:39:00
 
St. Petersburg, Russia chemists develop specialized electronic tongues on a
case-by-case basis