Genetic modification of livestock just took a turn for the downright weird. Chinese scientists have announced that they have altered cows to produce milk more similar to human breastmilk. They claim to have introduced human genes into a herd of 300 cows that will cause the cows’ milk to have much more “human” milk properties. [...]
September 30, 2010
LONDON — It was hard to explain, that dead mouse baked into a loaf of bread. British officials have released the photo which proved that Stephen Forse wasn’t kidding when he claimed to find the wee creature while making sandwiches for his children. Stephan Forse, of London, found a mouse baked and embedded into a [...]
September 28, 2010
It may sound like Michael Crichton movie plot, but senior U.S. airmen will claim today that since 1948, aliens have been hovering over United Kingdom and U.S. nuclear missile sites and deactivating the weapons– once even landing in a British base. Furthermore, they warn, our governments are hushing the activity up. The six former U.S. [...]
September 25, 2010
National Punctuation Day is “a celebration of the lowly comma, correctly used quotation marks, and other proper uses of periods, semicolons, and the ever-mysterious ellipsis,” says a description on the National Punctuation Day website. Founder Jeff Rubin has a haiku contest to commemorate the marks that make the meaning of our words clear to everyone. [...]
September 24, 2010
It’s home to 90,000 people, one of the nation’s biggest malls, a National Hockey League team and, the city’s mayor boasts, the first IKEA store in the state. But, for at least a month this summer, Google’s computers “lost” Sunrise, Florida. People who searched Google Maps for the city were directed instead to Sarasota, Florida — a [...]
September 23, 2010
Darwin’s bark spider is very small and yet constructs webs with anchor lines spanning rivers. It was discovered in 2001 in Madagascar, but a recent paper documented that its silk is stronger than Kevlar. The extra strong silk is what makes it possible for the spider to make anchor lines that are very long and can bear [...]
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