Here’s the latest in a variety of science fields from around the web: the first New Testament inscription has been found on a Jerusalem burial headstone…research shows that male sexual orientation is tied to brain metabolism…
…a controversial primate brain lab gets a go-ahead…a new web-based atlas of neurosurgery techniques is announced…as is a new genome-sequencing technology that can sequence the human genome in a single year instead of a decade…a brief article about the USGS’s real-time global earthquake map…quantum molecules that huddle together as one for warmth (well, not exactly)…the world’s first custom-designed protein……robots that can do kung-fu moves and then carry the body away…starting development of an American hypersonic weapon…NASA’s Project Prometheus has successfully tested an ion engine…a cheap way of discovering extrasolar planets…a book review on A Traveler’s Guide To Mars…an educational incentive from a martian sundial for schoolchildren all over Earth to put live images of their own local sundials on the Web…