Australian scientists might try a kangaroo intestinal bacteria transplant for cows in order to give them the 'roo's magical methane-free farts and thus aid the War on Global Warming.

But as someone quoted in the article says, perhaps they should just eat more kangaroo meat. Because, you know, kangaroos actually belong in Australia and can survive much more easily than the imported, antibiotic-loaded crap factories.

This drug sounds both glorious and terrifying:

The monkeys were deprived of sleep for 30 to 36 hours and then given either orexin A or a saline placebo before taking standard cognitive tests. The monkeys given orexin A in a nasal spray scored about the same as alert monkeys, while the saline-control group was severely impaired.

The study, published in the Dec. 26 edition of The Journal of Neuroscience, found orexin A not only restored monkeys' cognitive abilities but made their brains look "awake" in PET scans.

Siegel said that orexin A is unique in that it only had an impact on sleepy monkeys, not alert ones, and that it is "specific in reversing the effects of sleepiness" without other impacts on the brain.

No, seriously!

Research has shown that 24oz of Guinness a day may be as effective as aspirin at preventing arterial blood clots.

On a side note, I just learned that Guinness and a lot of other beers are not technically vegetarian (and will likely kill delicate vegans). A commonly used clarifier in beer and wines is isinglass, obtained from fish swimbladders. Plus there's gelatin in a lot of wine, etc etc.

via poe-news which also showed me this

Singing Tesla Coil
I really want one.

never drink diet cola with a mentos

Saturn's polar hexagon and some similar stuff.

It was probably the Russian hackers:

Pieces of space junk from a Russian satellite coming out of orbit narrowly missed hitting a jetliner over the Pacific Ocean overnight.

The pilot of a Lan Chile Airbus A340, which was travelling between Santiago, Chile, and Auckland, New Zealand, notified air traffic controllers at Auckland Oceanic Centre after seeing flaming space junk hurtling across the sky just five nautical miles in front of and behind his plane about 10pm last night.

Researchers have created genetically modified mosquitoes that are resistant to malaria.