Some Links

The Mystery Being Anaesthesia - Great article exploring the use and research of anaesthesia and frankly, how we know diddly squat about how it works.

Images of near-infra-red elephants - Not all elephants keep cool in the same way.

Republicans switch science for votes - Nature comments on the changeable nature of the GOP candidates views on science issues.

Neutrons escape our Universe? - Maybe and maybe we can measure it. Mind-boggling stuff.

Science for all - New Statesman discusses how science is not limited to the followers of one belief or none.

Pope sets up science foundation - Nice and well intentioned, but surely it would be better to just have your organisation embrace science in better ways wholesale rather than compartmentalising it off into a single unit amongst many?

Graphene can distil alcohol - or 'booze' as the BBC helpfully dumb it down as.

Non-existent weather forecasters? - Ahh, the British media and the weather. You've got to love them.