http://www.the-amazing.com Amazing Photos, Science News, Funny Photos Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:49:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. Here, at the Society of Toxicology annual meeting, yesterday, researchers rolled out ... http://www.the-amazing.com/brain-scans-depict-gulf-war-syndrome-damage/ Wind power has made incredible inroads into the U.S. energy system thanks to big, efficient machines standing hundreds of feet tall. But the future of wind power may be underground. In the abandoned mines and sandstones of the Midwest, compressed-air storage ventures are trying to convert the intermittent motions of the ... http://www.the-amazing.com/bottled-wind-constant-coal/ An extra-tall wave struck a cruise ship off the Mediterranean coast of Spain this week, claiming two lives and injuring one person on board. Though the wave may not qualify as a “rogue wave,” it could have been created by the same forces. To officially be rogue, the wave’s height must ... http://www.the-amazing.com/big-waves-rogue/ A moon probe has found millions of tons of water on the moon’s north pole, NASA reported Monday. The vast source of water could one day be used to generate oxygen or sustain a moon base. A NASA radar aboard India’s Chandrayaan-I lunar orbiter found 40 craters, ranging in size from ... http://www.the-amazing.com/millions-tons-water-ice-moons-north-pole/ The connection between gut bacteria and obesity has gained some weight, with new findings demonstrating links in mice among immune-system malfunction, bacterial imbalance and increased appetite. Mice with altered immune systems developed metabolic disorders and were prone to overeating. When microbes from their stomachs were transplanted into other mice, they also ... http://www.the-amazing.com/gut-bacteria-overeating-mice/ Prodigious plumes of planet-warming methane are bubbling from sediments across a broad region of Arctic seafloor previously thought to be sealed by permafrost, new analyses indicate. The resulting increase of methane gas in the atmosphere may accelerate climate warming, scientists say. sciencenewsThough immense amounts of carbon are known to be trapped ... http://www.the-amazing.com/fears-undersea-methane-leaks-coming-true/ Scientists have discovered 243-million-year-old fossils of dinosaurs’ closest relatives, pushing back the origin of dinosaurs by at least 10 million years. The dinosaur-like creature, Asilisaurus kongwe, was about the size of a Labrador retriever and had teeth and jawbones ideally shaped for eating plants, indicating it ate a mostly vegetarian diet. “This ... http://www.the-amazing.com/dinosaurs-arose-10-million-years-earlier-thought/ Atrazine is receiving lots of attention for turning male frogs into girls, but that’s not all the common herbicide does. It also weakens amphibian immune systems, leaving the fragile creatures vulnerable to disease. Though less obvious than gender bending, immunosuppression could play just as large a part in the worldwide decline ... http://www.the-amazing.com/sexchanging-herbicide-amphibians-sick/ Scientists have found a 67 million-year-old fossil of a snake coiled around dinosaur eggs and a hatchling. This is the first evidence of snakes eating dinosaurs. “It’s a stunning, once-in-a-lifetime find,” said paleontologist Paul Sereno of the University of Chicago, who was not involved in the study. “We’ve caught one of ... http://www.the-amazing.com/67-millionyearold-snake-fossil-eating-baby-dinosaurs/ Long before human communication evolved into incessant tapping on computer keys, people scratched on eggshells. sciencenewsDon’t laugh—researchers say a cache of ostrich eggshells engraved with geometric designs demonstrates the existence of a symbolic communication system around 60,000 years ago among African hunter-gatherers. The unusually large sample of 270 engraved eggshell fragments, mostly ... http://www.the-amazing.com/stone-age-engravings-ostrich-shells/