Scanning Dead Salmon in fMRI Machine Highlights Risk of Red Herrings.

Animals with Lightsabers.

Spacecraft 'could surf gravitational tubes' to make solar travel more efficient. "Gravitational corridors could help spacecraft travel the solar system like ships carried on ocean currents, making longer and cheaper journeys possible, it has been claimed."

A new species of giant rat has been discovered deep in the jungle of Papua New Guinea.

A Decade of New Species Discoveries in the Himalayas.

Is Using A Minotaur To Gore Detainees A Form Of Torture? [Via]

Erupting Volcanoes on Earth as Seen From Space.

Gigantic Lightning Jets Shoot from Clouds to Space. [Via]

The Rorschach Paintings. "In creating her new series, Pareidolia, artist and chemist Vesna Jovanovic detected biomorphic and medical forms in blots of ink." [Via]

Archaeologists have discovered what they believe is man's earliest map, dating from almost 14,000 years ago. [Via]

All Eat All. Jenny Diski reviews An Intellectual History of Cannibalism. [Via]

First Comes Global Warming, Then An Evolutionary Explosion. "In a matter of years or decades, researchers believe, animals and plants already are adapting to life in a warmer world. Some species will be unable to change quickly enough and will go extinct, but others will evolve, as natural selection enables them to carry on in an altered environment."

Ancient Cities Lost to the Seas. [Via]

Indian school for rogue monkeys: Wildlife officials in India plan to build a special school to improve the behaviour of delinquent monkeys. [Via]

In Light of Nalanda.

Why information is its own reward - same neurons signal thirst for water, knowledge.

Pablo Escobar’s hippopotamus gunned down in Colombia.

Fake Limbs, More Help Animals Heal.

Synesthesia. [Via]

Man and Nature Combine to Make Exquisite Art. [Via]