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Biologists have tried panda porn, with good results (and pornography is not necessarily a bad thing). Now scientists have started an online dating service for orangutans.
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Three of the most commonly-used medicinal herbs are Echinacea purpurea, Astragalus membranaceus, and Glycyrrhiza glabra (licorice). Doctors who tested them found them to be effective in boosting blood lymphocytes, which are essential to the body’s immune system. They also found that the extract of a mushroom commonly found in the woods of North America, Asia and Europe?which is too tough and chewy to eat?has a beneficial impact on the immune system.
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In her new diary, Anne Strieber writes: “Whitley has written about how he feels about his new novel The Grays. People Magazine calls it ‘a great read.’ It is based not only on Whitley’s own experiences, but also on the experiences of so many other witnesses whose stories we have heard over the years. But for me it’s more than any of those things: it’s the love story of Whitley and me.”

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The recent thwarted terrorist threat to airlines in London has made us all even more nervous about taking flight. What are scientists doing do help keep dangerous chemicals off planes? And what will we do if terrorists begin to target non-humans?

While it might be very difficult to detect benign chemicals that could make an explosive when mixed together, it is not nearly as difficult to detect traces of potentially dangerous chemicals on the FINGERS of people who recently have been in contact with them, so scientists want to develop an airport sensor that could detect such traces on the fingers of airline passengers.
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