OK, OK, here are your sleazy stories about frisky koalas and cybercheaters and sexual responses to domestic violence and MIT sex robots and Clockwork-Orange-like brain surgery on pedophiles and a little about synthetic sex cells and a LOT about synthetic sex cells and even a movie about a condemned sex act. Sheesh. Satisfied?

When your heart rate gets back down to normal after wading through the above barrage, here are a few more things worth thinking about that are a bit more highbrow. Like the technology behind a nurse robot (hey, no jokes – this is the serious paragraph) and peel-and-stick plastic lasers and self-evolving electronics. For your weekend dose of WMD, read about scientific proof that atomic weapons were used in 1945 Hiroshima and thought provoking scientific musings about genetic weapons being used in the future. On the cognitive science front, ponder the measuring of mouse intelligence and still more dicoveries on intelligence-robbing Alzheimer’s. On Mars we’re discovering thermal oases and getting ready to look for what might live there. On Earth, we’re discovering not life, but ocean deserts and how to kill things that aren’t alive
and how to create life from things that are dead.

To make sense of all this, who needs a 24/7 science news network when we’ve now got the inauguration of the George W. Bush Global Science Institute…or SciScoop?