Go on. Stink it up and not worry!

Yup, get prepared to enjoy the most unfettered air through anus adventures you can dream up and not have to worry about paying the olfactory price! According to the official site, “The new 2nd Generation Under-Ease underwear for flatulence is made with the same quality design and soft [...]

Large blue butterfly
A blue butterfly died out in Britain 30 years ago because of disruptions to a life cycle that includes pretending to be an ant, according to a study published Tuesday that points to smarter ways to protect wildlife.

Drinking alcohol goes to your head fast 
For the first time, researchers have proved the rapid changes that drinking alcohol causes in human brain cells.
Previous tests on how alcohol affects the brain have only been done on animals.  Scientists set out to test the well-known saying that just one drink can quickly go to your head.

 
University of Chicago postdoctoral scientist Philipp Heck with a sample of the Allende meteorite.
The interstellar stuff that became incorporated into the planets and life on Earth has younger cosmic roots than theories predict, according to the University of Chicago postdoctoral scholar Philipp Heck and his international team of colleagues.

 
pictured is the Bald Eagle soaring
Why aren’t birds larger? Fifteen-kilogram swans hold the current upper size record for flying birds, although the extinct Argentavis of the Miocene Epoch in Argentina is estimated to have weighed 70 kilograms, the size of an average human. In a forthcoming article in PLoS Biology, Sievert Rohwer, and his [...]

 
Model of a multifunctional micelle
Scientists and engineers at UC Santa Barbara and other researchers have developed a nanoparticle that can attack plaque –– a major cause of cardiovascular disease. The new development is described in a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Car power: The future of shopping 
Shoppers’ cars will be used to power supermarket tills in a revolutionary new scheme.
The weight of vehicles driving over road plates into a new eco store will power a generator that creates enough electricity to keep checkouts ringing.

 
Deep optical image of the Antennae galaxies
Astronomers have discovered new tidal debris stripped away from colliding galaxies. New debris images are of special interest since they show the full history of galaxy collisions and resultant starburst activities, which are important in ‘growing’ galaxies in the early Universe.

 
Marijuana smoke may increase the risk of cancer, scientists report
Using a highly sensitive new test, scientists in Europe are reporting “convincing evidence” that marijuana smoke damages the genetic material DNA in ways that could increase the risk of cancer.

 
A controversial new theory suggests that long-term changes in Earth’s main magnetic field are possibly induced by the oceans’ circulation.
Some 400 years of discussion and we’re still not sure what creates the Earth’s magnetic field, and thus the magnetosphere, despite the importance of the latter as the only buffer between us and deadly solar wind [...]

Mmmmm…. Hurts so good?

In a sunny garden in deepest Dorset yesterday 65 people – their faces rigid with pain and disgust – gathered in a quest to be crowned the King of the Stingers.
There is no easy route to winning the World Stinging Nettle Eating Championship, held each year in the village of Marshwood near [...]

The recently revived Herminiimonas glacei 
image: The Society for General Microbiology

Disregarding the lessons of Jurrasic Park, scientists have “awaken” a strain of bacteria called Hermeniimonas glacei from a 120,000-year slumber trapped beneath a block of ice. What could go wrong?
The new bacteria species was found nearly 2 miles (3 km) beneath a Greenland glacier, where temperatures [...]