HuffPost Science: Tiny 'Monsters'.. Unibrows.. Near Death Experiences

April 6, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Tiny Tentacled 'Monsters' Discovered Scientists have discovered two new species of strange-looking microbes that live in the bellies of termites, and they've named the creatures Cthulhu and Cthylla, an ode to H.P. Lovecraft's pantheon of horrible monsters.  Continue reading... WATCH: Massive Unibrow Spotlights NASA Scientist's Theory WATCH: Baby Lizards Burst From Eggs In 'Emergency' Coma Study Spotlights Strange Power Of Near-Death Experiences Record-Setting Star Explosion Spied By Space Telescope Were Geologists All Wrong About How Continent Formed? Vintage Photos Spotlight Bizarre Nazi Concept Weapon Music Study Suggests Asians Have Key Advantage Ancient Life Form 'Breathes' Rocket Fuel Ingredient, Study Shows Creationist Offers Big Money To Anyone Who Can Disprove Bible Music Study Suggests Asians Have Key Advantage BEN GOLDACRE WATCH: What Doctors Don't Know About the Drugs They Prescribe Doctors need the results of clinical trials to make informed choices, with their patients, about which treatment to use. But the best currently available evidence estimates that half of all clinical trials, for the treatments we use today, have never been published. Continue reading... JAMES M. GENTILE BRAIN Initiative: A Bold Venture Into Brain Science Launched with approximately $100 million in initial funding, BRAIN is a high-risk, high-reward effort that will provide basic but significant research insights in neuroscience and will have a major applied impact on health and human well-being far into the future. Continue reading... PAUL RAEBURN Did Time Magazine Offer Favorable Coverage to M.D. Anderson Cancer Center? Did Time promise M.D. Anderson favorable coverage in return for buying the ad? Both Time and M.D. Anderson told me that did not happen. But there are reasons to be suspicious. Continue reading... AMITAI ETZIONI Individualism vs. Social Science NPR's social science maven reported that President Obama may have undermined the success of gun control legislation when he stated that "We are responsible for each other." Americans, Shankar Vendantam stated, care about individual rights and liberty, not the common good. Continue reading... MARK MCCLELLAND Brain Mapping: Will We Be Ready For Humanity 2.0? If you could transfer your mind into a body that needs no sleep, suffers no pain, is made entirely of replaceable parts, and might allow you to live forever, would you? Add to the bargain a vastly improved IQ and the ability to retain everything you learn. It's the promise of mind uploading -- the transfer of a human mind into a computer -- and it may be feasible during the lifetime of today's teens. The implications are profound, and reach into every aspect of who we are and what we are capable of. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here.