SCIENCE BUZZ – The Gamma-ray Large Area Telescope will look for dark matter and microscopic black holes. After a series of delays, the launch of the new Gamma-ray Large Area Telescope went off without a hitch. Peering into the mysteries of the universe!

The Best Links:

1. Gamma-ray Large Area Telescope Finally Gets “Go”
2. Live Blogging GLAST Off
3. NASA’s GLAST Launch Blog
4. Exploring the Werid and Unknown in the Universe

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SCIENCE BUZZ – Scientists discover the most recently exploded supernova in our galaxy. By “baby,” they mean it exploded 26,000 years ago (Baby Supernova would also make a good band name).

The Best Links:

1. It Practically Just Blew Up
2. “An Unprecedented Opportunity to Watch a Star Dying”
3. Kind of an Unfortunate Name: G 1.9+0.3
4. NASA Announcement Crashed By Nutjobs

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SCIENCE BUZZ – The U.N. warns that a quarter of the world’s wheat could be threatened by a new, “highly pathogenic strain” of wheat stem rust called Ug99. The scary what blight strain was first detected in Iran and may be making its way towards the bountiful wheat fields of Asia and the Near East.

The Best Links:

1. Stem Rust Fungi
2. UN Alert! UN Alert!
3. “Ug99 is not another Neil Diamond cover band”
4. Beware the Ug!
5. A Longer Look at the Scary Ug Super-Blight

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SCIENCE BUZZ – Scientists have mapped the bizarre DNA of the duck-billed platypus. Citing it as a key to understanding all mammalian evolution, scientists noted the platypus also has 10 different sex chromosomes, instead of just X or Y, and say it may finally solve the question about the origin of the scrotum.

The Best Links:

1. There’s a Reason the Platypus Looks So Weird
2. The Platypus Has Ten Sex Chromosomes, Whereas We Have But Two
3. The Platypus: It Ain’t No Evolutionary Accident!
4. “Platypus Genes Hint at Scrotum’s Origin”
5. The Long-Term Story of the Platypus

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SCIENCE BUZZ – PETA is offering $1 million to anyone who can bring lab-made meat to the market by 2012. That’s right: They want to spare animals via man-made meat. Of course, the ability to grow meat in the lab, providing the FDA would approve it, would be so wildly lucrative that $1 million would seem like a pittance in comparison.

The Best Links:

1. “Eating meat and eating animals used to be the same thing.”
2. Why PETA’s $1 Million Prize is B.S.
3. The Details of PETA’s Million-Dollar In Vitro Meat Prize
4. Wait, Didn’t PETA Attack KFC for Allegedly Growing Chicken in the Lab?

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