Salt water to replace oil?

AP: "An Erie cancer researcher has found a way to burn salt water, a novel invention that is being touted by one chemist as the 'most remarkable' water science discovery in a century. John Kanzius happened upon the discovery accidentally when he tried to desalinate seawater with a radio-frequency generator he developed to treat cancer. He discovered that as long as the salt water was exposed to the radio frequencies, it would burn. The discovery has scientists excited by the prospect of using salt water, the most abundant resource on earth, as a fuel."


Bad. Ass. Yay science!

So... everything really tastes like T-Rex?

CNN: "Tiny bits of protein extracted from a 68-million-year-old dinosaur bone have given scientists the first genetic proof that the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex is a distant cousin to the modern chicken.

"It's the first molecular evidence of this link between birds and dinosaurs," said John Asara, a Harvard Medical School researcher, whose results were published in Friday's edition of the journal Science."


I think we're going to need a bigger ziplock...

Nebraska finds a way to measure the emotional state of non-living substances

NewsNet5: "OMAHA, Neb. -- Area drivers will soon be able to fill up with gasoline made from 'terror-free oil.'"


So.. does that mean that the oil was slaughtered humanely? Or just by surprise?

70 million year old dinosaur soft tissue discovered

Science Now: "When paleontologists find fossilized dinosaur bones during a dig, they usually do everything in their power to protect them, using tools like toothbrushes to carefully unearth the bones without inflicting any damage. However, when scientists found a massive Tyrannosaurus rex thigh bone in a remote region of Montana a few months ago, they were forced to break the bone in two in order to fit it into the transport helicopter. This act of necessity revealed a startling surprise: soft tissue that had seemingly resisted fossilization still existed inside the bone. This tissue, including blood vessels, bone cells, and perhaps even blood cells, was so well preserved that it was still stretchy and flexible."

This is incredibly cool.. Although we predict that some religious fundamentalist will jump on 'pliable soft tissue' as 'proof' that dinosaurs were around more recently, and just didn't fit on the ark... (insert eye roll)