Weird Science starts disinfecting its phones
Just what orifice have you been speaking with?: In case you missed it, yesterday was Global Handwashing Day, which we here at Weird Science celebrated by leaving the home office and having a shower....
Weird Science starts disinfecting its phones
Just what orifice have you been speaking with?: In case you missed it, yesterday was Global Handwashing Day, which we here at Weird Science celebrated by leaving the home office and having a shower....
Weird Science is nice to the nurses in order to get more morphine
Anyone you don't like is just whining: Alternately, if you want better pain management, be nice to the hospital staff. A small study population was given a pictures of a set of patients,...
Weird Science avoids "professional exposure to goats"
Latest cancer risk is "professional exposure to goats": This one makes a bit more sense when you dive into the details, but only a bit. There's an unusual form of lung cancer that...
The Weird Science of promiscuous squid
Squid aren't picky about where they put their sperm: Inhabitants of the deep sea are spread pretty thin, so many of the species there take extreme measures to make sure they take full advantage...
Weird Science can’t find its invisible mouse
Canadian girls gone wild on spring break... leads to a notable baby boom nine months later. That's one interpretation of the data obtained by tracking all the pregnancies that were handled at an Ontario...
Weird Science rejects the sperm of low-status mates
Social subordinates risk rejection—of their sperm: Hens don't have to be too choosy about whom they mate with; they still exert some control over who fathers their offspring. Hens have the ability to eject sper......
Weird Science protects its honor by dying in a horrible accident
A state of living stupidly: We here in the US tend to use the phrase "honor culture" to describe recent arrivals from a number of foreign countries. But if the authors of a recent paper have it...
Weird Science checks the size of its sneaker sperm
In which we inform you that the term "sneaker sperm" does not mean what you probably thought it does: And we suspect that you'll be happy to hear it. In this case, "sneaker"...
Forget tennis elbow: Weird Science identifies tennis butt
Does this sport make my butt look funny?: The format of PLoS ONE papers is such that the authors get to write a short description of the purpose of their work. And a...
Weird Science puts electronics in the backpacks of wild animals
Backpack-wearing colugos show ideas about gliding are for the birds: A number of mammalian species, like flying squirrels, have evolved the ability to glide for long distances. Some researchers have suggested this is a...
When blindfolded, Weird Science prefers rocks and scissors
If you rock, I will rock too. If you paper, you're on your own: Recently, we covered how rock-paper-scissors could help us understand evolution. Now, it's helping us understand human behavior. ...
