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Fish Developed With 'Six-Pack Abs' (175 diggs) A 10-year effort by a scientist to develop transgenic rainbow trout with enhanced muscle growth has yielded fish with what have been described as six-pack abs and muscular shoulders that could provide a boost to the commercial aquaculture industry.

Telepathic computer can read your mind (183 diggs) Telepathy has taken a step closer to reality after British scientists developed a computer that can read your thoughts.

Half-Hen/Half-Rooster Shows Cells Can Decide Sex (240 diggs) In mammals, a flood of hormones tells cells to develop male or female features. But a new study of gender-bending chickens reveals that birds may be different. They have an additional way of determining whether they appear male or female: Individual cells may be able to do it.

Thicker Than Water? Antarctica's Amazing Ecosecret (378 diggs) Blood Falls is a waterfall in Antarctica that spews blood-red water from five stories up. It was first discovered in 1911, but it wasn’t until recently that scientists have begun to dig into just how significant the location really is – both for understanding life on Earth and for speculating about life on other planets.

Brain Scans Depict Gulf War Syndrome Damage (319 diggs) SALT LAKE CITY — Nearly two decades after vets began returning from the Middle East complaining of Gulf War Syndrome, the federal government has yet to formally accept that their vague jumble of symptoms constitutes a legitimate illness.

How the Chile Earthquake Went Nuclear (416 diggs) As has been widely reported, the Chile quake was a megathrust earthquake, the largest class of tremor we know of. At magnitude 8.8, it was over 500 times more powerful than the Haiti quake.

New Charging Method Could Slash Battery Recharge Times (503 diggs) Apply an oscillating electric field to the anode of a lithium battery and the recharge drops dramatically, say chemists

(Wonderful, Awesome) Study Says Porn is Socially Beneficial (391 diggs) "And in every region investigated, researchers have found that as pornography has increased in availability, sex crimes have either decreased or not increased."

New Method to Turn Wood And Straw Into Liquid Biofuels (210 diggs) British scientists say they've discovered a mechanism that might lead to a new way of converting wood and straw into liquid biofuels.

WTF? SNOW ON THE PALM TREES! Snow hits Mediterranean coast! (363 diggs) Blizzards have hit the French Mediterranean coast amid warnings of up to 20 inches of snow in Northern Spain on Tuesday.

MRI's successes put the brain on trial (178 diggs) As we obtain a finer-grained understanding of the brain structures that perform specific functions, the use of MRI to probe an individual's mental capacity may be ready to take a starring turn in the courtroom.

LHC fault forces 2011 shutdown (818 diggs) [Reported by Diggers as Possibly Inaccurate] The Large Hadron Collider must be shut down for a year starting in late 2011 to address design flaws, the BBC has learned.

Fuel-injection System That Delivers 64 Miles Per Gallon (535 diggs) The best hybrid cars of today can only deliver about 48 miles per gallon. By using this newly developed fuel injection system a test vehicle was measured at achieving 64 miles per gallon in highway driving. This is approximately a 50% increase in fuel efficiency in a gasoline engine.

Scientists tease DNA from eggshell of extinct birds (369 diggs) In a world first, scientists in Australia announced on Wednesday they had extracted DNA from the fossilised eggshells of extinct birds, including iconic giants such as the moa and elephant bird.

Is Number of Earthquakes on the Rise? (Washington Post) (354 diggs) Are the recent earthquakes in Haiti, Chile and Turkey a coincidence or a sign of increases seismic activity?

Real-life Hurt Locker: How Bomb-Proof suits work (1,385 diggs) A fascinating look at how bomb-proof suits actually work

Woman tries to shut down Large Hadron Collider (537 diggs) A German woman has failed in a bid to force her country's government to halt experiments at the world's largest atom smasher which she feared would lead to the Earth's destruction.

Insulators Made Into Conductors (296 diggs) Most polymers -- materials made of long, chain-like molecules -- are very good insulators for both heat and electricity. But scientists have now found a way to transform the most widely used polymer, polyethylene, into a material that conducts heat just as well as most metals, yet remains an electrical insulator...

Finally see an actual Giant Squid (266 diggs) Controversial anatomist Gunther von Hagens has stuffed the monstrous pair of squid with silicone for preservation. A new technique preserves the squid in a life like form.

Physicists Find Way To See Through Opaque Materials (398 diggs) New experiments show that it's possible to focus light through opaque materials and detect objects hidden behind them, provided you know enough about the material.

A Computer That Processes Faster Than The Speed of Light (662 diggs) Exceeding the speed of light opens one up to all kinds of theoretical problems, but two Austrian researchers claim there's no reason we can't build a computer that processes information at superluminal speeds.

Biblical City's True Location Discovered, Researchers Claim (353 diggs) Scientists think they've finally found the real location of a city mentioned in the bible called Neta'im.

Mile-High Mega-Kites Could Pull Giant, Floating Power-Plant (317 diggs) Take a huge oceanic catamaran, stick a hydroelectric turbine underneath it, and hitch it to a 6.5 million-square-foot parafoil flying nearly a mile in the air. That’s a Korean research team’s new proposal for generating gigawatts of clean energy.

Engineering a parasite to tell you where it has been (260 diggs) Researchers insert a gene into a parasite that ensures that cells it infects can switch genes on or off, permanently marking infected cells.

How to Reboot Your Corpse (440 diggs) Thousands of bodies are already cryonically frozen, waiting for faster computers and medical advances that will undo their cause of death.