Dead Parkinson’s Disease Patients… yummy
Whitehead Institute researchers have developed a novel method to remove potential cancer-causing genes during the reprogramming of skin cells from Parkinson’s disease patients into an embryonic-stem-cell-like state. Scientists then used the resulting induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells to derive dopamine-producing neurons, the cell type that degenerates in Parkinson’s disease patients.

An international team of scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) in Berlin, Germany, and the University of Sheffield, UK, now answered the question how social status is inherited in one of the most social of all mammals, the spotted hyena.

This is a real bird, this is not a test…
A team of scientists, led by the University of Exeter, has used game theory to explain the bizarre behaviour of a group of ravens. Juvenile birds from a roost in North Wales have been observed adopting the unusual strategy of foraging for food in ‘gangs’. New [...]

 
Radical New Green Chemistry Makes The Impossible Possible
 McGill University chemistry professor Chao-Jun (C.J.) Li is known as one of the world leading pioneers in green chemistry, an entirely new approach to the science which eschews the use of toxic, petrochemical-based solvents in favour of basic substances like water and new ways of making molecules.

Moths need just the essence of a flower’s scent to identify it, according to new research from The University of Arizona in Tucson.

 
Hey its a marshmallow with wheels that runs on air hey what a concept
How’s this for a “green” fuel: air.
That’s right, like the stuff that we humans run on in the form of oxygen. French firm MDI has introduced such a vehicle at the Geneva Auto Show.
Dubbed the AirPod, the three-wheel vehicle is set for [...]

 
Not your normal old wind up toy
It’s been many decades since there was any kind of correlation between the price of a wristwatch and its timekeeping abilities. Today, expensive watches are all about style and making a statement. The problem is an increasing number of the young and rich are choosing to go watchless, using [...]

Either you’re incredibly brave or just plain crazy for taking a joy ride in a police cruiser,
but either way these criminals got a extra bonus – new toys for their next heist
Montebello police spent more than an hour today trying to find a police cruiser after someone apparently took it for a joy ride and [...]

 
A French kiss is costly
Graham Moore was fined £130 for using modified number plates that read “kisses” in french
A ROMANTIC gesture to impress a woman has landed a British man with a £130 fine.
Graham Moore, 60, was driving a car with plates that his now-deceased son had modified to amuse his French girlfriend.

Cool idea for saving the planet
Slatterz writes “Cisco has inked a deal with NASA to build a new global system for tracking climate change.

Naked mole rats resemble pink, wrinkly, saber-toothed sausages and would never win a beauty contest, even among other rodents. But these natives of East Africa are the champs for longevity among rodents, living nine times longer than similar-sized mice. Not only do they have an extraordinarily long lifespan, but they maintain good health for most [...]

Distorting time and space with the enormous powers of tequila
Much of life around us is an illusion, and we spend time arguing over which of our illusions are more correct. We are here to tell you to get over yourself and try a new illusion every once in a while. This weeks photos are all [...]