SlantedScience’s Monday Morning Tongue

serrated edged goose tongue looks like teeth

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 »

“Oceans For Pathi” Renamed: It’s Now “Oceans”, It’s By Disney, And It’s Out In April

Oceans For Pathi has been bought by Disney and renamed Oceans for release on world earth day

 

We reported back in December 2009 that there was quite the buzz about an upcoming film called “Oceans For Pathi“. It was reported to be a mind-blowing piece of cinematography, which had taken years to make and which used novel techniques (such as remote-controlled helicopters with cameras attached) to document the oceanic world in ways never seen before.

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 »

Dead Man Blinking: Scientists Create Working Synthetic Eyelid

scientists create worlds first mechanical eyelids

 

This is a story which may be of great benefit to many people in a few years’ time, but which at the moment we find most remarkable for two things. One is cool but a little bit weird, the other is cool but so freaking creepy it’ll dance through your dreams tonight. Read the rest of this entry »

SlantedScience’s Monday Tongue: The Sun Bear

Monday tongue the sun bear tongue
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 »

Re-Post: Pork Chop Grown In A Lab; Paul McCartney Is “Confused”

dutch scientists have grown pig meat or pork in the laboratory for the first time

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 »

Online Poker: Winners Are Actually Losers

scientists reveal that winners eventually lose at online poker playing

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 Cells Feed On Fat To Increase A Tumor’s Malignancy

scientists have shown that MAGL enzyme can help make tumors more malignant by breaking down stored fat

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 »

Creepy Man Creates Creepy Robot For Creepy Man/Robot Sex

douglas hines has created roxxy the worlds first sex robot

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 »

Ladies, Be Thankful: Male Fruit Flies Need Their Penises To Be Spiky For Sex


scientists have used lasers to shave spikes off fruit fly penises for reproduction research and evolution

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 »

Frogs Can Expel Foreign Bodies Through Their Urine

frogs remove foreign objects through their urineHave 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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