"Researchers in Montana say they have been training honeybees to sniff out landmines.
They say bees have a very refined sense of smell, live in packs of thousands, are quicker than dogs and can learn within days."

Ananova - Bees trained to find landmines

Permanently green hair .. AT LAST!!

"Shuttling genes into hair follicles can alter hair colour, scientists have shown for the first time. The experiments on mice also suggest genetic modification treatments for hair loss will be possible in future. "

New Scientist

"By sticking tiny cannons on the backs of cockroaches to see how their recoil jars the insects' balance, researchers have added firepower to a new mathematical model that explains how roaches move so nimbly. The model has already helped them design a better robot bug. "

ScienceNOW -- Choi 2002 (826): 2

Interesting site with a bunch of in-depth info about Simplicity, Unification, Parsimony and Occam's Razor.

snippet :

This principle goes back at least as far as Aristotle who wrote "Nature operates in the shortest way possible." Aristotle went too far in believing that experiment and observation were unnecessary. The principle of simplicity works as a heuristic rule-of-thumb but some people quote it as if it is an axiom of physics. It is not. It can work well in philosophy or particle physics, but less often so in cosmology or psychology, where things usually turn out to be more complicated than you ever expected. Perhaps a quote from Shakespeare would be more appropriate than Occam's razor: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.".

Simplicity, Unification, Parsimony, and Occam's Razor in Science

The observations of Albert-Laszlo Barabasi about networks have broad applications in business. In an interview, he explained a few of the implications.

Cyan, this guys books sounds up your alley...

How One Decision Affects Many Players

"Principia Cybernetica tries to tackle age-old philosophical questions with the help of the most recent cybernetic theories and technologies."

Welcome to Principia Cybernetica Web

"June 3, 2002: Suddenly the horizon turns orange. Clouds glow strange shades of purple and pink, and the Sun itself swells ... bigger and redder than ever. Another lovely sunset.
You've probably seen so many that you hardly notice any more. But, if you live in North America, pay attention next Monday for something extraordinary as twilight approaches.
The setting Sun will be a crescent."

Weird Sunset

Researchers Use Gene Therapy to Destroy HIV Virus

Interesting approach here... Hurry up and wait 3 years for trials/maturity...

AIDS cured?

"Gene banking is easy and affordable. We'll
help your veterinarian obtain small tissue
samples from your animal, which we'll then
specially prepare and store in liquid
nitrogen, where they can safely remain
indefinitely."

Genetic Savings & Clone - Welcome

Strictly spoken it's a piece of software, simulating the Solar System's bodies in 3D on your Windows or Linux PC (will work in most *NIX's as well). In difference to quite a few other programs it does so in realtime. Meaning you can view all the planets, moons and spaceships move along their paths, trace them, follow them, orbit them and even control them (time and spaceship contol). And you won't have to fight your way through hordes of green, slimey and one-eyed aliens for that ;-)

OpenUniverse: A Free Space Simulator