The tooth fairy payment was astronomical
In the famed Sharktooth Hill Bone Bed near Bakersfield, Calif., shark teeth as big as a hand and weighing a pound each, intermixed with copious bones from extinct seals and whales, seem to tell of a 15-million-year-old killing ground.

Lunar eclipses are well-documented throughout human history. The rare and breathtaking phenomena, which occur when the moon passes into the Earth’s shadow and seemingly changes shape, color, or disappears from the night sky completely, caught the attention of poets, farmers, leaders, and scientists alike.

Raj Krishnan, a PhD student in bioengineering at the University of California San Diego (UCSD)
Cancers that are detected early have the best chance of being cured but, until now, there were no methods of detecting cancer at its earliest stages.  Raj Krishnan, a PhD student in bioengineering at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), [...]

European researchers in robotics, psychology and cognitive sciences have developed a robot that can predict the intentions of its human partner. This ability to anticipate (or question) actions could make human-robot interactions more natural.

Early action could be crucial to addressing the problem of major increases in jellyfish numbers, which appears to be the result of human activities.

The astrophysicist João Alves, director of the Calar Alto Observatory in Almeria, and his colleague Andreas Bürkert, from the German observatory in the University of Munich, believe that “the inevitable future of the starless cloud Barnard 68″ is to collapse and give rise to a new star, according to an article which has been published [...]

 
The average girl-next-door, right, with the ‘average’ shape is what men are looking for according to a new study
It is a finding that will quicken the hearts of size 14 women everywhere – gentlemen prefer Miss Average.
Men find the average shape of the girl-next-door more appealing than the ‘perfect’ proportions of models and centrefolds, a study [...]

Is your dog really guilty? 
What dog owner has not come home to a broken vase or other valuable items and a guilty-looking dog slouching around the house? By ingeniously setting up conditions where the owner was misinformed as to whether their dog had really committed an offense, Alexandra Horowitz, Assistant Professor from Barnard College in [...]

Disruption of planetary oribits could lead to collision with Earth
The solar system’s clockwork motion is by no means guaranteed, for new computer simulations suggests a slight chance that a disruption of planetary orbits could lead to a collision of Earth with Mercury, Mars or Venus in future.

GOOD magazine’s infographic reveals that recent bankruptcies dwarf Enron’s collapse. I dunno if that fact is supposed to make us laugh, cry or look for another country to migrate to….

Charmed I’m sure…

Sitting less than a metre away from a poisonous cobra, the children show no signs of fear and do not flinch when faced with one of the deadly snakes.
Children in India’s 600-strong Vadi tribe are first introduced to snakes at the age of two.
All Vadi children complete a ten-year initiation ritual that culminates [...]

New words are popping up everywhere!

A new English word is created about every 98 minutes, according to the website The Global Language Monitor. Based on that rate, English passed the millionth word mark earlier today.
Here are the 10 latest words in the English language:
1,000,000: Web 2.0 – The next generation of web products and services, [...]