Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Antimatter

http://dsc.discovery.com/space/top-10/anti-matter/

 

Yearbook Photo Smiles Predict Marriage Success

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/04/23/yearbook-smile-marriage.html

The finding adds to a growing body of evidence that smiling behavior in photos, no matter how fleeting, staged or contrived, indicates underlying emotional dispositions that can have direct and indirect consequences throughout the person’s entire life.

 

Asexual Ants Give up on Males

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/04/15/asexual-ants.html

The insect, Mycocepurus smithii, represents the first documented male-less species of ant, the scientists believe. What’s more, all of its female ant colonies are thriving on clonal fungi, and appear to have stopped producing males a long time ago, puzzling experts who believe asexuality is evolutionarily disadvantageous.

 

Strangest Creatures To Ever Die

http://dsc.discovery.com/earth/slideshows/10-extinct-beasts/top-10-extinct-beasts.html

Ooo, someone’s been reading Discovery.com! Oh, wait, it’s me.

 

Did Great Salt Lakes Trigger Mass Extinction?

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/03/31/salt-lake-extinction.html

“During the end-Permian mass extinction 250 million years ago, nearly 90 percent of life on Earth was extinguished, and everything from magnetic field reversals to supervolcanoes has been invoked to explain it. But a group of researchers have an even more provocative idea for the murder weapon: poisonous gases vented from dried-up salt lakes.”

 

Hot Tea Linked to Throat Cancer

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/03/27/hot-tea-cancer.html

“People who drink their tea piping hot run a higher risk of throat cancer than counterparts who prefer a cooler cuppa, according to an investigation published Friday by the British Medical Journal.” (March 27, 2009)

 

Space Station Poll Tallies in Colbert’s Favor

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/03/11/space-station-colbert.html

And don’t cry for Colbert if NASA uses its regulations to thwart him. He’s already managed to get his name attached to an ice cream flavor, a Hungarian bridge and an eagle, to name a few.

 

Red Boosts Attention, Blue — Creativity

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/02/06/blue-red-effects.html

 

Rare 1,800-Year-Old Figurine Found in Jerusalem

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/01/27/jerusalem-figurine.html

Is it a Limited Edition Franklin Mint piece?

Also: Photo Caption: “Tiny Depiction.” Paging Mr. Tusks!

 

Manners Lowered Brit’s Chances of Survival on Titanic

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/01/26/titanic-manners-british.html

David Savage, a behavioral economist at Queensland University of Technology, Australia, and Bruno Frey, of the University of Zurich, Switzerland, spent more than a year studying survival rates from one of the worst maritime disasters in history.

The aim was to determine whether people reverted to a “survival of the fittest” mentality when it was a matter of life and death.

 

Ancient Greek Homes Doubled as Pubs, Brothels

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/01/21/greece-brothel-pub.html

This gives me an idea for a way to generate some additional income. I hope our renter doesn’t mind!

 

Invisibility Cloak Closer Than Ever to Reality

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/01/15/invisibility-cloak.html

“A large number of folks are looking at it, and I think it’s a matter of coupling the right material to the right device.”

If it’s invisible, how do they know they’re actually looking at it?

 

Candy Canes Fight Germs, Settle Stomachs

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/12/24/candy-canes-germs.html

Peppermint oil, and other potent essential oils, may even one day be wafted in their vapor form over food to prevent the growth of bacteria.

 

Space Shuttles Up For Grabs

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/12/18/space-shuttle-nasa.html

 

Mars Phoenix’s Twitter Proves a Huge Success

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/12/05/phoenix-twitter.html

NASA gave the historic Space Age mission an Internet Age spin by adding a Twitter page, enabling the robotic interplanetary explorer to answer the hot micro-blogging Web site’s trademark query: “What are you doing?”