Rosie Mestel of the L.A. Times takes six pages to tell you everything you ever wanted to know about sugar replacements, but never knew you…

Next month, the FDA is expected to approve Vivitrex for use by alcoholics. Vivitrex is a once-a-month injection containing the drug naltrexone which blocks pleasure…

After 1,000 embryo transplants into 123 recipients, South Korean scientists have finally managed to make the world’s first dog close, named Snuppy, which stands for…

First, take some carbon nanotubes. Then coat them in folate molecules (a type of B vitamin, available at most Chinese delicatessens). Inject these into cancerous…

It has already been established that America’s obese population is adding a significant toll to the nation’s medical bill, up to an estimated $75 billion…

How are today’s teens coping with the need to have six-pack abs, bulging biceps, trim little tummies and pert little buttocks? According to a survey…

Why worry about Iraq and terrorism and gay marriage? By 2036, we’ll all be dead anyway — or at least as-good-as if a certain asteroid…

Scientists in Vancouver are DNA-testing tufts of Sasquatch fur in order to find out what a Bigfoot is made of. The hair was turned in…

Okay, so… here’s a little something to think about when you’ve nothing better to do than ponder the future of meat production. A team of…

Scientists have discovered a planet that they can’t quite explain, because although it’s 75% as big as Jupiter, its core is as big as 70…

A 35-year, €10 billion nuclear fusion reactor project has been won by France after an 18-month delay while the parties involved tried to broker a…

Unable to figure out on his own why the United States hasn’t built a new nuclear power plant in 30 years, George W. stated during…

USC researchers now say that all those detoxification diets that supposedly rid your body of toxins and clean out your system through regimens of drinking…

Wondering what to do about the high cost of drugs? What are you supposed to do when you pay hundreds of dollars to keep replenishing…

Democrats and Concerned American Scientists Against Kansas had their dreams of time travelling back to the year 2000 to replace a Supreme Court justice with…

Microcyn looks, smells and tastes like water. It’s made of water and salt. But it’s formulated in such a way that an ion imbalance in…

And more about sex! Yay! Another study, this one from our friends in sexy Stockholm, shows that gay men react to odors more like women…

Just going to show that San Francisco really is the center of Satanic evil in all of America — and we couldn’t be prouder —…

Thanks to this New York Times article and the National Cancer Institute and teh Centers for Disease Control, I now feel a lot better about…

You know what I like? Cereal. You know what I don’t have a lot of time for? Breakfast. You know what product you’ll never be…

Lately I have had to ask myself what decade I’m actually living in. Consider the fact that science teachers all over America are afraid to…

Scientists, having studied the images and data being returned from Saturn’s moon Titan, now say that the satellite is made up of a delicious creamy…

After a 57-year study of 465 people in Scotland, scientists say that smoking is not just bad for your health, it makes you stupid. Smokers…

An old story, but one of those that just makes us stop in our tracks and think, “What the fuck?” So… High School teachers in…

The United States filed to strongarm the United Nations into ratifying an international treaty banning all forms of cloning, including cloning for research, i.e. stem…

NASA plans on sending its scramjet to Mach 10, or 7,200 miles per hour next week over the Pacific Ocean. That’s fast enough to fly…

A study from the University of California, San Francisco suggests that obesity may make you dumber as you grow older. “Apple-shaped” people show elevated cognitive…

Chances are, within the next 3 or 4 years you’re going to own a robot. It’ll probably spend its time vacuuming your rug or mowing…

Yay, more bad news about the environment! According to the United Nations, people need a minimum of 50 liters of water per day for drinking,…

In what could be one of the most important scientific discoveries in decades, what may be a new breed of primate has been discovered -…

The Unified Theory of Everything managed to grab its authors The Nobel Prize for Physics, which is only just since, hey, if a Theory of…

A great big fat huge enormous capacity disc, but not called Great Big Fat Huge Enormous Capacity Disc, sadly, has been developed by Imperial College…

A former brainwashing expert from Japan has allegedly invented a cell phone ringtone that makes women’s breasts bigger. …

Richard Branson thinks the era of passenger space flight is just around the corner, so he’s starting up Virgin Galactic, a spaceline that will start…

The Japanese, in their never-ending struggle to make positively everything either cute or anthropomorphic or, preferably, both, have invented a way to make flowers sing….

SETI@home, the online project that uses screensavers on millions of personal computers to check out radio telescope signals, may have picked up its first real…

Rimonabant is a newly discovered drug that tells your brain not to want things. Consequently, a once-a-day pill could appear in two years (or five…

Researchers at Ohio State University say that women and men with asymmetrical extremities are more likely to beat the shit out of you when annoyed….

Sure, go ahead and keep laughing about California falling into th eocean. Say what you will about us San Franciscans risking our lives every day…

In a rash of mail to the NYT editors about a recent stem cell article, a lot of ethical points get raised (but seriously, fuck…

Oregon State University’s Food Innovation Center (because we need more innovative food, you know) has come up with the latest trick to get kids and,…

While populations in Europe and Japan are shrinking as they grow older, they’re really pumping out the babies in India, China and most African nations—not…

Scientists in Britain at the International Centre for Life in Newcastle have been given permission by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority to use human…

A company that tracks drug sales and movement says that Viagra usage among men under 45 (when, one presumes, getting erections ain’t an issue) increased…

Revenge may or may not be a dish best served cold, but apparently it really does satisfy a type of hunger. Researchers watching brainwave activity…

Rats who eat cassaroles are less likely to develop cancerous tumors in their prostate than rats who elect to watch Nascar and long hours of…

In news that will no doubt rock your meteorological world view and make you cringe and shake and lose sleep tonight, huge, gigantic, monster raindrops…

Over the next 30 years, there’s a 33% chance that a big earthquake will not hit the area. And, yes, that means there’s a 66%…

The AIDS epidemic is growing faster than ever according to a U.N. report. There’s a growing opinion here in the U.S. that the epidemic has…

Robert Fleishman designs playhouses based on his knowledge of mathematics and structural engineering. Lately, he’s turned his intellect to the problem of affordable housing and…

The fourth sign of the coming Apocalypse has taken place in Iran, as Dick Cheney’s illegitimate hell-spawn has been born in the shape of a…

American and Russian occupants of the International Space Station must make a more dangerous than normal walk outside their home to make repairs. The risky…

I like coffee. A lot. I can make coffee using four different methods at home. I drink coffee, I eat coffee ice cream, and I…

Finally, someone said it: The whole low-carb everything trend is a rip-off. In short, skimping on all carbs, including those in vegetables, fruits, whole grains…

Researchers may have figured out why all those happy morning people bug the shit out of the rest of us: They’re evil. Turns out that…

U.S. and Austrian scientists have succeeded in teleporting the qubits from one atom to another without a physical link between them. What this means is…

A new comet dubbed Wild2 is a freakazoid with almost no gravity, wild towering protrusions and it emits giant space farts as it cruises along…

For those of you mobloggers who don’t think a simple digital camera is enough to record every little thing you see on a daily basis,…

There are four chimp species, and only 8,000 of the rarest chimpanzees left in the wild. A new study presented at The Pan African Sanctuaries…

With a nano-scale coating of microcrystalline titanium oxide, Pilkington Activ glass manages to clean itself. The coating reacts to daylight, breaks down the grit and…

A University of Virgina astronomer has produced a 5-second audio clip that he and his colleagues believe condenses the sound of the first million years…