boingboing.net / .boingboing-net-science

A brain implant let a paralyzed man feed himself and drink -- his arm strength rose 86% in 35 weeks.

New cocktail party problem research: switching voices, your brain tracks both for a beat, cued every 15-30s.

In 1978, a proton beam passed through Anatoli Bugorski's brain. He finished his PhD and ran the same accelerator.

The volcanic winter of 536 dimmed the sun for 18 months and starved 3 continents. Maybe history's worst year.

Trunko, the furry sea monster seen fighting whales in 1924, was decayed whale collagen. Photos surfaced in 2010.

The Peking Man fossils, bones of 40 Homo erectus individuals, vanished in 1941 en route to a US ship. Still unfound.

Researchers used yeast from Ötzi the Iceman, dead 5,300 years, to bake sourdough and say the strains stayed active.

Tabloids called the Baltic Sea anomaly a sunken UFO. Geologists say the 200-foot sonar blob is a glacial rock formation.

Two foragers boiled 2 Amanita muscaria buttons to eat and tripped for hours -- beer bottles bonded, food felt alive.

A T. rex fossil named Gus sold for $50.1 million at Sotheby's, the most valuable dinosaur ever auctioned.