Sunscreen residue washed off in showers and sinks is reportedly sexually altering some male fish off the Southern California coast.
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Study: Sunscreen Sexually Alters Fish
Meditation Builds Up the Brain
Meditating does more than just feel good and calm you down, it makes you perform better – and alters the structure of your brain, researchers have found.
Robots Sniffs Out Snipers
A system based on human hearing can reveal the location of hidden gunmen in urban-warfare situations.
Best Products of 2005
Popular Science picks their top 100 products of 2005 including everything from a mind controlled bionic arm to a self inflating basketball.
Australia Sets Sites on Geothermal World Domination
Generating electricity using the heat of ancient rocks buried deep below the red sands of the Australian outback?
High Powered Hydrogen Truckers
Hundreds of semitrailer trucks zipping along North American highways are now powered in part by hydrogen. These 18-wheelers make hydrogen as they go, eliminating the need for high-pressure, cryogenic storage tanks or hydrogen filling stations, which, by the way, don’t yet exist.
Salmon-Flavoured Soda
For beverage connoisseurs tired of turkey-and-gravy or green-beans-and-casserole flavoured sodas, there’s a new choice being offered this year by speciality U.S. soda maker Jones Soda Co.: salmon.
