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Dearest Readers, Inky Circus is moving! You can find us here from now on, where business will continue as per the usual hijinks. But our archives will be here forever and a day. Subscribe to our new RSS feed here.... - Who you gonna call - Johns Hopkins
FRUIT FLY CELLS / GREEN THING FROM GHOSTBUSTERS MIGRATING ACROSS AN EGG. What is it that makes cancer cells migrate from the main site of growth to other healthy tissues and how exactly do they move? A professor of Biological... - Newsflash - London not so filthy after all!
It's official! London really isn't that dirty anymore! Well, the wetlands around Greater London aren't anyway. Squacco herons haven't been seen in the vicinity of my home town for a century and a half, but one was spotted in Crossness... - Salad dressing face mask to the rescue
'Restoring' priceless works of art has never been an easy task. While it might have seemed like a good idea back in the 1960s to cover the porous marble of Michelangelo's David (and plenty of other valuable frescoes) in an... - Chatty paper
CAN SPEAKING PAPER FIGURE OUT A WAY TO MAKE MONEY LITERALLY TALK? (PHOTO: MANJIDES) A team from Mid Sweden University have produced a prototype billboard embedded with conductive inks and printed speakers, so that when you touch it it plays... - As light as a geological hammer
A little bit of magic for a drizzly Monday morning (unless of course it's sunny everywhere but Britain...) comes to you courtesy of NASA.com and features a phenomenon called the equivalence principle. Back in the 16th century, Galileo Galilei rolled... - How to avoid being lunch
THE STUDY ISN'T ABOUT ATLAS MOTHS BUT I COULDN'T RESIST THE PIC. (PHOTO: TRIJNE) In the good ole natural selection race, he who adapts best survives. Take for example a butterfly's fancy wing spots that are meant to look like... - In space no-one can hear you scream
We depend on the Sun for life, but it an unpredictable master. Every now and again it flings out bundles of joy known as Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), which can do an awful lot of damage when they slam into... - My great-aunt was a shark you know
I CAN DEFINITELY SEE THE FAMILY RESEMBLANCE... (PHOTO:NATASHAW) I was on a trip in South America once, and was trying to spell my name to a ticket agent to buy a bus ticket. The poor woman got a bit confused... - Will we ever post about things that aren't fuzzy again??
Probably not. I've been primed to love white lions ever since getting hooked on Osamu Tezuka's "Kimba the White Lion" manga series (which I'm convinced Disney soooooo ripped off in The Lion King. More here). So when I was recently... - Pet Allergy Saga Part: XIVIIII
(PHOTO: Hajor) So you know how I am all allergic to everything warm and snuggly and pet-like? And that I love animals more than people? How my first word was "cat" and before I even spoke I used to point... - Fiddling with the food chain
Is is ok to kill a shark to save a seal? Not an easy decision to make. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration thinks it's ok, and is currently seeking permission from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the... - Lock up your scooters
There's an orangutan on the loose. Mopeds in a Taiwan zoo faced a grizzly fate when a 150kg beast escaped from his cage and went on the rampage. The animal got a brief taste of freedom before the zoo keepers... - Hugh Hefner's bunnies in danger!!!
The Lower Keys Marsh Rabbit's numbers are dwindling, as they fail to live up to their reproductive stereotype, to the imagined shame of their namesake Hugh Hefner. Yes that's right. The same man that is known for dawdling in the... - Seriously, where IS that walrus?
A while back, I wrote about a project that planned to track walruses as they make their whiskery way around Greenland. When I mentioned the project, the BBC hadn't yet got its dedicated web area going. They have now, but...
