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Monday mornings: a time for quietly contemplating the upcoming week’s trials and tribulations, then deciding to do nothing about them until Tuesday.

And, in our opinion, a great time for pictures of tongues. Here’s this week’s: a goose tongue, sporting an array of what look like teeth along its outer edges.

Real or fake? Find out in a moment… Read the rest of this entry »

Well, it turns out  that Disney have acquired the film’s rights, and are going to be releasing it this year using the new title, “Oceans“. Read the rest of this entry »

Monday mornings: a time for quietly contemplating the upcoming week’s trials and tribulations, then deciding to do nothing about them until Tuesday.

And, in our opinion, a great time for pictures of tongues. Join us after the jump for this beauty: a foot-long hunk o’ Sun Bear lovin’… Read the rest of this entry »

We’re not sure why, but everybody is reporting today on the Dutch scientists who have created meat within a lab culture system. First as always, we reported this in November last year. So here’s a re-post for ya:

Great news for vegetarians who miss the taste of meat: in a few years, you may be able to chow down on a slice of bacon or two with a clean conscience. Scientists report today the first ever production of a piece of meat grown entirely in vitro.

Where next with this? May we suggest co-culturing a piece of pork with a pair of pigeon wings? Hey presto: flying pigs. Read the rest of this entry »

Your mother always warned you about gambling, and now scientists have validated her opinion: a paper just published in The Journal Of Gambling Studies shows that even when you win, you still lose.

Oh, Life, is there no end to your cruelty? Read the rest of this entry »

Cancer begins when a single cell’s DNA acquires sufficient mutations in key areas (or ‘genes‘) that it can no longer regulate its own growth. The cell begins to divide and divide repeatedly, being unable to either sense or act upon the signals coming from nearby cells telling it to “be a good neighbor and quit with all the mitosis already“. The result, perhaps only detected after several years of growth, is a tumor.

But why are some cancers relatively benign – growing in mass but showing no inclination to leave their location – while others are extremely aggressive, throwing out their seeds to grow as copies of the original cancer (or ‘metastases“) in different parts of the body? Well, scientists are reporting that they have discovered a new reason which partly explains the aggressive behavior: cancer cells can dramatically ramp up production of a protein which helps them to release energy and cellular building blocks from stored fat. Read the rest of this entry »

Scientific breakthroughs have traditionally been announced to the world at serious, prestigious conferences to an audience of bookish old men dressed in tweed.

So kudos to Douglas Hines, who last week made his big proclamation at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas, presumably to an audience of sweaty perverts wearing heavily-stained underpants.

And his revolutionary scientific advance? Why, only a life-sized robotic girlfriend with artificial intelligence and the ability to speak.

What? It was hardly going to be a cure for cancer, now was it? Read the rest of this entry »

When there’s so much serious, life-changing scientific research being done in the world, people often accuse SlantedScience of being obsessed with sex and genitals, like a horny fifteen-year old boy. Partly that’s because we give the majority of stories to local high school kids to write (they’re really cheap), but mostly it’s because when scientists study these subjects they tend to come up with some really bizarre shit.

And after all, it ’s important that science’s less-exposed areas (such as bats having oral sex and slow-motion video of ehajculating duck penises`) get an airing now and again.

So we come to this: biologists at UC Berkley have just published the results of their work, which show that when a laser is used to shave the tiny spikes off a fruit fly’s penis, the fly was left almost unable to service its female counterparts.

Curing cancer can wait: let’s have more of this, please. Read the rest of this entry »

Have you ever had a splinter?

Of course you have. We all have. Normally works its way back out within a day or two, right? Well, imagine if instead of slipping out quietly the way it came in, that little wood chip worked its way into your body – through all the muscle, fat, and past the bones – and exited through your urethra.

Kermit won’t be smiling for long.

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