Top 10 Masturbating Animals. Humans… You’re Not Alone!

Porcupines prefer sex toys, and moose get off by rubbing their antlers on trees. While scientists debate the evolutionary reason for masturbation, there's no doubt that we are not alone on our self-pleasure from time to time. Here are the top ten animal masturbators.

Mysterious Mass Bee Deaths

"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left." Albert Einstein

Bees are dying faster and faster everyday. This is not a good sign because they are the one and most creature that contributes in the pollination of flowers and plants. They are responsible for the production of the best element ever known to man, Honey.

For 2 years, scientists have been studying those sudden mysterious deaths and so far they couldn't come up with one exact answer, they came up with a million theories but not answers.

The Brain Can Be Trained to Reduce Pain

There may be a high-tech way to teach people to handle chronic pain, scientists report.

They’re not talking about a sophisticated device that erases pain. Instead, they used medical technology to help patients learn how to develop mental coping devices that would allow them to train their brains to cope with, and reduce their experience of pain.

The strategy is in its early days, so it’s not ready for widespread use. Thorough tests are needed, the researchers note.

They describe their work in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Coping With Pain

The study included 36 healthy students from Stanford University and 12 people in their 30s with chronic pain.

The pain patients had largely had little relief from other pain treatments (including painkillers and counseling).

Those who didn’t have chronic pain received pain exposure through heat applied to the palm of their left hand during the experiment.

The Golden Rules of Processing Pain

Alcohol and Tobacco are more Fatal than Cannabis, LSD and Ecstasy

This is the latest drug list revised by Britain's drug experts. It reveals the misconceptions we have of alcohol and tobacco being the least dangerous out of all drugs other than Heroine and Cocaine.

They tested 20 different drugs and scored the effects caused to the body. The results were surprising and shown in the graph provided.

"A team of 29 psychiatrists took part in the the study to classify all drugs into nine groups that were analyzed on the physical harm, addiction and social danger. Another group consisted of 16 experts did the research in several fields including chemistry, pharmacology, psychiatry and legal field to say a final word on drug ranking.
According to this new drug list, alcohol is named A drug. It slightly outruns heroin and cocaine. Tobacco was placed ninth and fell within a category B drug, after amphetamine. Such dangerous drugs as cannabis, LSD, ecstasy were left far near the end of the drug list."infoNIAC

Komodo Dragon - One Bite Killer

You're thinking... Dragons??!! They are in myths and they are known to breathe fire. Well this dragon is real and dangerous, except for the fire part. So dangerous that it bites the prey ONE time injecting fatal degenerate bacteria into the prey's body and waits.

This dragon has an incredible sense of smell, when the prey dies from the deadly bacteria after days, the Komodo Dragon will know where they are from their keen sense of smell. Go there and eat it.

Actually to be more precise, the prey will become a big meal for a Komodo fest because all Komodo Dragons sense their own saliva miles away and goes there. The Komodo Dragon is the fastest, largest, strongest lizard alive. Komodo Dragons are endangered species although they are new species. One last interesting fact is that a Komodo can open it's mouth so wide that it becomes bigger than it's own head.

Prehistoric Very Rare Shark Discovered and Photographed Alive

Flaring the gills that give the species its name, a frilled shark swims at Japan's Awashima Marine Park on Sunday, January 21, 2007. Sightings of living frilled sharks are rare, because the fish generally remain thousands of feet beneath the water's surface.

Spotted by a fisher on January 21, this 5.3-foot (160-centimeter) shark was transferred to the marine park, where it was placed in a seawater pool.

"We think it may have come to the surface because it was sick, or else it was weakened because it was in shallow waters," a park official told the Reuters news service. But the truth may never be known, since the "living fossil" died hours after it was caught.

Strange Weird Fish Compilation

This is the famous Batfish. As you can see it looks like it had put lipstick on its lips. Roaming through aquatic life is an interesting journey. It's a journey full of unexpected discoveries; every single day a new species are discovered in the deep blue waters.

Recently, they also discovered new life forms in the freezing waters. Scientists say that they discovered only about 30% of life in the aquatic atmosphere. I don't know what to expect other than what we've already seen.

This week is the Aquatic Week. I will be posting videos and pictures of new fish and species discovered in the watery life. I will also be posting few prehistoric forms of life and explaining them bit by bit. I will not forget to share rare photos and strange aquatic life forms. I hope you will enjoy this week.

Get the "Flying Car" for $194,000 - Roadable Aircraft

This illustration shows the Transition aircraft, wings partially unfolded, as it shifts from road-worthy to air-worthy. The vehicle carries a price tag of $194,000.
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A Boston-area company plans to begin flight tests this year of a two-seater airplane that moonlights as a car.

The aptly named Transition takes a stab at bridging the gap between automobiles and airplanes. Some people call it a flying car. The company designing and selling the vehicle prefers the term "roadable aircraft."

Drug that Can Mutate Aids Virus to Self-Destruct

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This microscopic image in false color shows the HIV virus up close. Famous for its ability to evolve and evade drugs designed against it, HIV appears vulnerable to a new drug that speeds up the mutation process. It takes time and may not work for all patients, but early clinical trials are promising.

HIV is notorious for its ability to mutate and evade drugs designed to destroy it. Now scientists are testing a new drug that actually speeds up that rate of change in the hope that the deadly virus will mutate itself to death.

"The HIV virus is so dependent on mutation that it really lives on the edge of existence," said John Reno, Chief Operating Officer for Koronis Pharmaceuticals, the company developing a drug called KP-1461. "But we figured that if we could increase this mutation rate, [HIV] might finally fall off that edge."

KP-1461 is a mutagen, meaning it encourages mutation, and has been in development for several years by the scientists at Koronis Pharmaceuticals.

Weird Fish with Transparent Head Discovered - Video

The Pacific Barreleyes Fish is a magnificent fish having a transparent head and a normal semi-bloated body. You can see clearly the two green lens-like structures inside the head. The fish was discovered since 1939, pictures were taken in 2004 and the story with the pictures was released on the February 23, 2009. National Geographic news featured the story of the fish.

The fish was discovered off California's central coast by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI).This is the first specimen to be found with it's transparent head intact. What's more surprising and strange about this fish is that the small beads at the front side of its head aren't actually its eyes. The eyes are the big lens-like green structures inside its dome. Scientists discovered that the eyes can pivot, like a birdwatcher pointing binoculars.