Energy from the air?  How very Tesla of you!   But unlike America's favorite quirky inventor, this isn't transmitted power and no dogs have to die.    It's using moisture from the air - and the more humidity you have the better.

Similar to the way solar cells capture sunlight, hygroelectric collectors would collect moisture and use it to light a house or recharge an electric car.   Bonus: Panels on the rooftops of buildings could prevent lightning strikes - and the technology is already in the early stages of development.

Are you a brilliant student but can't take tests well?   A star athlete in practice but nerves overwhelm you at game time?   It's common but in varying degrees; the line between someone who worries about performance and therefore does even better and someone who 'chokes' under pressure is fuzzy.

Did Neanderthals develop `modern' tools and ornaments solely through contact with Homo sapiens, or could they adapt, innovate and evolve technology on their own?  

A new anthropology study challenges a half-century of conventional wisdom that Neanderthals were primitive `cavemen' overrun and out-competed by modern humans arriving in Europe from Africa.

Airlines, hotel companies, anything with a date attached, know they have you on the hook the closer to that date because no one buys airline tickets for tomorrow unless they are desperate, and there are fewer tickets available, so capitalism says you consumers will pay more because they must.

But even William Shatner knows the airline seat or hotel room has no value for the corporation either, once it is gone - he works for a corporation that makes money selling last-minute fares and hotel rooms because it is an asset that expires. That can be your advantage also because airlines and others don't want to fly empty so they often have the 'best' prices on a limited number of seats long in advance in order to break even.   Buying in advance makes sense also.

The United States is home to some 40 different species of bat. Thanks to stories of blood-sucking vampire bats, they've somewhat developed the reputation of a fearsome pest, but in fact they are a vital part of our local environment. Many bats can eat their body weight in insects on a single nightly outing. As such they play a huge role in controlling local populations of real pests: disease-spreading insects.

But across the country something devastating is happening, more than a million bats have now been wiped out due to the rampant spread of a fungal infection known as White Nose Syndrome (WNS).

Ever want to build your own launch rail?  Interorbital Systems did, and sent me pictures.

I know, I know, you're thinking "aren't all the cool kids building their own rockets instead?"  Yeah-- and what are they gonna launch them off, huh?  Didn't think that far, huh?  So you're going to show up in a desert or tropical island somewhere with a rocket and be all "where shall I stick this?"  And the locals will be happy to tell you where to stick it.  Trust me, you need a launch rail for your rocket.  It's like the pod for the pea.

Black holes draw audiences, because they are weird, they are profound, they are Albert Einstein and Steven Hawking rolled into a singularity. Or some such – except, none of this is actually the case. The black hole is a much more mundane concept, older than relativity, and despite much misinformation in popular and pseudo science, black holes have in a certain sense little to do with relativity (and I say this although and because I worked for many years on black holes and used general relativity when doing so).

Since you are not Moses, with an omnipotently powerful deity covering your escape, in the situation of a fanatical pharaoh on your trail you may be confused as to how you could part the Red Sea and thus save your People.   Numerical modeling is here to help with some physics.

Tendons connect bones to muscles so if you want to run during a football game or fight a Trojan War, they are important.   If you didn't understand the clever pun in the title, the only vulnerability of Achilles was his calcaneal tendon (tendo calcaneus), because when his mother Thetis dipped him into the magical river Styx to make him invincible, she held him by the heel.

Naturally, it was his undoing.   So today that tendon of the posterior leg is called the Achilles tendon and a devastating weakness in an otherwise strong group or person is colloquially called the Achilles Heel (see Death Star - should we close that 2 meter port that leads to the fusion core?) 

Oxytocin (alpha-hypophamine ) is a nine amino acid peptide more commonly known as a neurotransmitter in the brain - a love hormone.

There have been many studies trying to discern the impact of oxytocin on things like maternal behavior and sex but researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine wanted to find out if oxytocin helped us to 'understanding' other people in ordinary social encounters.

Result:  They determined oxytocin selectively improves social cognitive abilities for less socially proficient individuals, but has little effect on those who are more socially proficient.