Taking the Wii to a whole new level
From Kotaku.com (via statesman.com) comes this unbelievably awesome story. I can hardly contain myself:

Want to be a badass wear a mask
They hide identity, disfigurement, or they’re just meant to be badass. No matter what the reasons for wearing them, these fifteen iconic movie masks have been permanently etched in our minds Enjoy.

Fire Fighter finding a koala after the mass fires in Victoria, feeding it some water from a bottle!
Via:Digg

 Scientists have tried for years to unravel the process of spindle assembly
The last step of the cell cycle is the brief but spectacularly dynamic and complicated mitosis phase, which leads to the duplication of one mother cell into two daughter cells. In mitosis, the chromosomes condense and the nucleus breaks down. Fibrous structures called spindles [...]

 Optical Brain Imaging Decodes Preference With 80 Percent Accuracy
Researchers at Canada’s largest children’s rehabilitation hospital have developed a technique that uses infrared light brain imaging to decode preference – with the goal of ultimately opening the world of choice to children who can’t speak or move.

 
An in-depth study by Sandia National Laboratories and General Motors Corp.
has found that plant and forestry waste and dedicated energy crops could sustainably replace nearly a third of gasoline use by the year 2030.

SO slippery… looks like a cartoon character
The decline of amphibian populations worldwide has been documented primarily in frogs, but salamander populations also appear to have plummeted, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, biologists.

Mediterranean diet also was associated with a lower risk for this transition
Eating a Mediterranean diet appears to be associated with less risk of mild cognitive impairment—a stage between normal aging and dementia—or of transitioning from mild cognitive impairment into Alzheimer’s disease, according to a report in the February issue of Archives of Neurology, one of [...]