Odd shaped fruit.
An apple a day might keep away more than the doctor. HortResearch, a New Zealand company with 400 scientists studying all things fruit, has early data that suggests a specific (mystery) fruit can delay fatigue by 20 percent and increase muscle power by 70 percent.

 
 gifts…. A way into a womens………Heart
Thinking of giving flowers and candy this Valentine’s Day? Nice gesture, but chances are your girl would prefer something a little shinier. Something with buttons perhaps, and a flash drive. Fortunately, PopSci is here to make shopping a breeze…

Why wait? Plan your vacation today
Want to pep up your love life? Well, then all you need to do is plan “vacation sex” with your partner, for it can do wonders for your heart, mind, and soul, according to a new research. Sex on a holiday allows you to get away from pressures, distractions, worries […]

Tom Cruise playing Claus von Stauffenberg, leader of the July 20, 1944 plot to kill Hitler
It all started when 11 extras dressed in Nazi army uniforms tumbled out of a World War II-era truck in Berlin during the filming of Tom Cruise’s movie “Valkyrie.” Now, the actors are suing United Studios for $11 million.

 
Burning a cheap car in effigy
An Indian factory that will make the world’s cheapest cars has been besieged by 30,000 protesters, who say it was built on land taken illegally from farmers. Is the October launch date for the $2,500 car in jeopardy?
 

 
In 2008, solar power seems to be the hot topic for alternative fuel use. Solar powered products are already coming down in price so that the average consumer can take it home and use it, but now scientist are turning to the moon as well as the sun for power. Could the moon fuel our […]

 
In case you weren’t aware, below the surface of the earth there’s a sea of insanely hot material that’s constantly swirling around. When tapped, that heat source can be used as geothermal power. With so much down there, why aren’t we using it more? That’s a question asked in Australia, where a study determined that […]

 
26 people Survived?…
MADRID, Spain - A Spanish airliner bound for the Canary Islands at the height of the vacation season crashed, burned and broke into pieces Wednesday while trying to take off from Madrid, killing 149 people on board, officials said….

Burj Dubai is set to be the world’s tallest building and the centerpiece of the Gulf regions most prestigious urban development, entitled Downtown Dubai. The Arabic meaning for the word Burj is ‘tower’, which gives Burj Dubai a meaning of ‘Dubai Tower’ or ‘Tower of Dubai’. Its exact height hasn’t been disclosed but it has […]

Look for a Class Action lawsuit to be filed by the “wrong” guys
Taking the contraceptive pill can lead a woman to choose the “wrong” partner, a new study suggests. The pill is thought to disrupt an instinctive mechanism that brings together people with complementary genes and immune systems.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GchYChDfx5k

Hurricane simulator - University of Florida
Essentially, this is a portable wind tunnel with water. They move it in front of a house and test whether the house is strong enough to withstand the force of a hurricane. More videos after the jump.
 

 
Police are planting secret GPS devices on cars to monitor potential criminals
The Washington Post has a long investigative article on how more and more police departments are secretly planting GPS tracking devices on the cars of people they are investigating — usually without a warrant. After-the-fact court challenges on this technique have largely upheld such […]

 
But can they create a clone of a clone?
On August 5, an American woman received her five purchased pitbull puppy clones at South Korea’s Seoul National University Hospital for Animals. Bernann McKinney paid the firm $50,000 for the five dogs from RNL Bio, reported as the world’s first successful commercial dog […]

 
It may be possible to be both fat and healthy, researchers reported on Monday, for at least half of overweight adults, and close to a third of obese men and women, have normal blood pressure, cholesterol and other measures of heart health.

Sere Traore, 7, sells gold for 5,000 Guinean Francs (approx. $1) to gold buyer Majan Djwara,
in the region of the Fatoya mine, in Guinea on April 25, 2008. (AP Photo/Rukmini Callimachi)
If you wear a gold ring on your finger, write with a gold-tipped fountain pen, or have gold in your portfolio, then chances are you’re […]

According to the Beijing Times, 55 seconds of the televised Olympics 2008 firework display? Completely fake:
Anyone who saw the opening to the Bejing Olympics would agree that the fireworks display was exceptional, but those watching at home were tricked into thinking what they saw was real, when some of it was actually CGI.

Great or Gross Ice Cream?

The city of Yokohama has marked the 130th anniversary of the arrival of ice cream in Japan with a festival showcasing exotic regional varieties including eel, raw horse, curry, crab and potato.
Yokohama Ice Cream Expo attracted thousands of fans before it closed yesterday (SUN), according to organiser Manabu Matsumoto, who identified […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC-KOYQsIvU

 
This crazy experiment will show you how to turn a liquid to a solid with just a touch.. amazing.  Total costs $25-35 for 500 grams of sodium accitate.  Second video after the jump.

Chinese weather control rockets like this were used Friday to stop rain from disrupting the Olympics
Beijing fired over 1,000 rain dispersal rockets on Friday evening to blow away rain clouds for the smooth opening ceremony of the 29th Olympic Games at the National Stadium, confirmed the local observatory on Saturday morning. It […]

 
 Great plans = great controversy
Great Britain is mulling plans to build the world’s largest tidal power station. Though the climate-friendly energy source is expected to provide 5 percent of the country’s power, environmentalists oppose the project, which they say will destroy vital wildlife habitat. (Pics)

 Apparently loyalty now has a price
In a move that will likely kill the program, American Airlines joins Delta in announcing changes to the frequent-flier program. Changes included new fees and higher mileage requirements for upgrades and free tickets.

 
Many people are getting very nervous about this breach of privacy
The Washington Post reports on the booming business of selling your medical treatment records. Today these are mainly records of your prescriptions, but the data warehouses will soon have records of your lab tests, too. The companies selling these records make it easy for insurance […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUkiyBVytRQ

 Amazing arrogance!
A New York City police officer has been placed behind a desk after being caught on tape deliberately pushing a man off of his bike during a Friday Critical Mass event in Times Square.

Add sweetener to taste…
Obviously, the soaring cost of energy is causing plenty of pain for Americans, especially at a time when they’re being hammered by declining house values and rising food prices. The pain isn’t about to ease, either.
 

When Viviane Maraghi took blood tests to find out how many chemical pollutants were in her body, she expected the number to be low. An environmentalist, she carefully monitored what she ate and the household products and items she purchased.