Miami dead animal artist Enrique Gomez De Molina was recently arrested and faces up to 5-years in jail and $250K in fines after illegally smuggling in the remains of rare and endangered animals to make his Frankensculptures. For shame, Enrique! How much for a female mannequin with the head of a dinosaur? According to the report, he is charged with possessing the skins of a Java kingfisher, collared kingfisher, bird of paradise, and juvenile hawk-eagle as well as the carcasses of a slow loris and a mouse deer, all from Indonesia. The artist had not obtained the required permits to import the animal parts, and police claim De Molina knew what he was doing was illegal as he asked the people he bought them from to wrap them in carbon paper, according to the MN Times. The artist claims that he aimed to raise awareness with his work to the danger faced by a range of species… Ah yes, the old “raise awareness by partaking in the same practices responsible for the animal’s near extinction in the first place”. Now that is what I call ART. A piece made from the very thing it speaks against. Reminds me of my most recent project. It was called ‘PLEASE DON’T STINK’. And? And was just ‘PLEASE DON’T STINK’ spelled out really big on the carpet in dog turds. “Jesus — what the hell is wrong with you?” I’m ahead of my time! Hit the jump for a whole bunch more ark-missers.

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Man Arrested For Taxidermy-ing Together Mutant Animals From Illegal/Endangered Species

Seen here looking excited out of her mind to be holding a giant check *adds to bucket list* , 17-year old Angela Zhang won Siemen’s annual high school science competition for designing a cancer-fighting nanoparticle and NOT making a baking soda and vinegar volcano like I did. Come on, judges — did you not see the little plastic dinosaurs?! Zhang, the only female individual finalist, said her research was in part motivated by her family. Her great grandfather had liver cancer and her grandfather died of lung cancer when she was in seventh grade. “I asked, ‘Why does this happen. Why does cancer cause death? What are we doing to fix this and what can I do to help,’” said the Monta Vista High School senior. Zhang said the particle she designed improves on current cancer treatments because it delivers a drug directly to tumor cells and doesn’t affect healthy cells around it. The particle is also able to release a drug when activated by a laser. The idea is still years away from being used in patients, however. Zhang says it could take 25 years between clinical trials and other steps before her research is helping patients. You know, it’s always comforting to know there are still youngsters out there willing to take up arms and help fight the good fight. Plus, PLUS — she’s a lady . More women in science, folks, that’s the real message here. Maybe if more young girls wanted to be like Angela and not a f***ing Kardashian I wouldn’t have to spend so much time drinking in the dark talking to a handgun (I still would though because he always says some really crazy shit). Calif. teen takes $100K national science prize [washingtonexaminer] Thanks to Kendra, who agrees the government should pay me a ridiculous amount of money to promote careers in science.

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You Deserve It: 17-Year Old High Schooler Wins $100K For Designing Cancer-Fighting Nanoparticle

Inb4 my sperm would’ve won. The world’s first cellular race was recently held in France, and I think I speak for everyone here when I say nobody cared. I mean, were they even accepting bets ? Because I’ve got an angry bookie who’s gonna make my legs bend backwards if I can’t come up with $4,000 by Friday. Obviously, I’ll be sporting a wheelchair to the office next week. How did they race the cells? Labs from all over the world heeded the call for frozen cells (the more usual the better, according to the rules) and shipped them to the Institut de Recherche en Technologies et Sciences pour le Vivant (IRTSV), where they were thawed, injected with dye and placed in specialized micro racetracks. Each 400-micron track was coated with a natural substance called fibronectin to give the cells traction to get moving. A line of bone marrow stem cells from the National University of Singapore walked — or whatever cells do — away with the honors traveling at 5.2 microns per minute. That’s 0.000204 inches per minute to you and I. Wait — bone marrow stem cells won?! I didn’t see that coming! Get it? Because it would’ve taken a microscope and I broke mine looking at pubes I found in the bathtub! Hit the jump for the Cellmont Stakes or whatever in action.

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$200 On Speedy McStemCell!: World’s First Cell Race

Determined to keep good on their promise to clone mammoths in the near future, scientists claim they’re one step closer after finding well preserved marrow in the thighbone of a specimen during a recent dig. No word if anybody’s tried making mammoth broth with it yet. By transplanting nuclei taken from the marrow cells into elephant egg cells whose nuclei have been removed through a cloning technique, embryos with a mammoth gene could be produced and planted into elephant wombs, as the two species are close relatives, they said. But cell nuclei are usually damaged or have not been kept in a frozen state even when they have been found in a good overall condition, a Russian museum official said. This time, however, there is a high likelihood that biologically active nuclei can be extracted as the frozen marrow found when museum scientists cut open the thighbone Nov. 13 was fresh and in excellent condition, according to the official. Oh man, can you imagine the look on the husband elephant’s face when his wife gives birth to a mammoth ? I bet you didn’t even think of that, did you, scientists? HOMEWRECKERS! That said, I’m ready and willing to carry a dino baby to full term. Call Text Sext me. Scientists a step closer to cloning mammoth [japantimes] Thanks to Bradley, Pesche and Sam, who agree mammoths are just hairy elephants AND A WASTE OF OUR CLONING RESOURCES.

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Forget Them, Skip Straight To The Dinos!: Scientists One Step Closer To Mammoth Cloning

This is a newly discovered species of Yeti (NOT Batman ) crab. It’s similar to the other hairy-armed Yeti crabs except this one grows edible bacteria on its arms by methodically waving them around in front of deep sea methane vents. And speaking of deep sea methane vents: blue whales . You don’t want to be sitting in a dinghy when one of those fart bubbles surfaces! Hit the jump for two short videos, one of the hairy arm waving, one of chow-time.

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New Yeti Crab Farms Bacteria On Its Arms To Eat

Smooth move Cyclops, now the building’s on fire. Because what good is science if we can’t all shoot lasers out of our eyeballs and take staring contests to a whole new level , researchers have successfully spliced jellyfish DNA into human cells, allowing them to produce biological lasers. It’s gonna be like a giant game of Asteroids happening inside you! All it takes to make a laser is something that lights up, plus a structure that can amplify and focus that light into a coherent beam. In the case of these biolasers, human kidney cells have been genetically enhanced to produce the proteins that make jellyfish glow. These glowing cells were stuck between two tiny mirrors barely bigger than the cell itself, and when the cell was energized with blue light through a microscope, it fired out a bright green directional laser beam that was visible to the naked eye, just like a little laser pointer. BOOSH, laser pointer eyes. I have no concept what purpose they’d serve besides looking cool, but isn’t that the most important purpose anyway? It is. *trying to find straw my with tongue without looking* Scientists combine humans with jellyfish to create living lasers [dvice] Thanks to Eli, who’s worried Cyclops might not feel so special anymore.

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Humans + Jellyfish DNA = Laser Vision?

Period Panties are $12 colored skivvies for ladies to wear while they’re on their monthly emotion-fest so they don’t ruin a pair of frilly lace ones. Or something. Honestly, I don’t know anything about women and only learned last week vaginas aren’t oriented sideways like I always imagined. So yeah, I’m probably the wrong person to ask for stuff like this. For directions, sure, but I am going to send you into the worst part of town I can think of. Which, fun fact: is my neighborhood. Then I’ll follow you on my bike and beat you up and steal your hubcaps. I’MMA SELL ‘EM FOR CRACK! Hit the jump for the two other designs and a link to the product site.

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You Don’t Even Want To Know: Period Panties

Note: Larger shot HERE in case your little sister’s trying to argue it looks more like intestines than brains. SHUT UP LAURA BEFORE I TELL THAT BOY YOU LIKE YOU HAVE SCABIES. Geekologie’s resident anatomy expert Jason Freeny (is it true women pee out of their butts?!) is at it again, this time with a Rubik’s Cube covered in brain. Well, not real brain , just plastic brain. Which, I’m not gonna lie, is way more than I have going on up in the ol’ nog. Read: THERE’S NO LIGHT ON IN MY ATTIC. The basement, yes (I swallowed a flashlight trying to peek at my tonsils in the mirror). Moist Production (Jason’s Website) Thanks to the man himself, who promised me a model of an anatomically correct dino shlong. The bigger the better, Jason, I’ve got a whole lotta love butt to give.

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Rubik’s Brain Cube: Now That’s What I Call A Mind Game (Shoot Me Now, Don’t Hesitate)

Seen here looking like an exploding nebula or some such shit, a strain of flu prepares to have its ass whipped and lil’ tentacle dealies torn off by a new flu vaccine. That’s right folks, scientists at Oxford University believe a vaccine capable of combating EVERY strain of flu is just around the corner. And just around my corner? A homeless man who’ll yell at you if you don’t give him a quarter. Oxford University: 1, my neighborhood: 0 (and -4 after dark!) The treatment - using a new technique and tested for the first time on humans infected with flu - targets a different part of the flu virus to traditional vaccines, meaning it does not need expensive reformulation every year to match the most prevalent virus that is circulating the world. Developed by a team led by Dr Sarah Gilbert at Oxford’s Jenner Institute, the vaccine targets proteins inside the flu virus that are common across all strains, instead of those that sit on the virus’s external coat, which are liable to mutate. If used widely a universal flu vaccine could prevent pandemics, such as the swine flu outbreaks of recent years, and end the need for a seasonal flu jab. Sure it could prevent pandemics, ooooor it could cause the flu to mutate into some sort of zombie virus that makes all our penises fall off and wanna eat each others’ brains. Huh? No not nuts you pervert — actual brains! Then where are we left? We?! There’s no we! Your zombie ass is gonna be left on an island! “Hey, as long as it’s the island from LOST.” Ha, “the island from LOST.” YOU’LL GET ICELAND AND LIKE IT! Flu breakthrough promises a vaccine to kill all strains [guardian] Thanks to Jason, who agrees the best way to combat the flu is pounding some curry as hot as you can stand it at least once a week. If your ass doesn’t spontaneously Mt. Vesuvius on you later that night, you did it wrong. Trust me, I crap my pants on the reg and haven’t been sick in years.

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Scientists One Step Closer To ‘Universal Flu Vaccine’ (Cue Unstoppable Supervirus)

“Yep, definitely a bomb.” Scientists at the University of Colorado have developed the early predecessors of future “bomb-sniffing” plants ( move buzz over, bees !) that can change colors to indicate the presence of specific chemical compounds. No word on how long it takes for the change to take place, but my guess is two peg-legs too late. It only took a small engineering nudge to deputize a plant’s natural, evolutionary self-defense mechanisms for threat detection. “Plants can’t run and hide,” says June Medford, the biologist who’s spent the last seven years figuring out how to deputize plants for counterterrorism. “If a bug comes by, it has to respond to it. And it already has the infrastructure to respond.” Right now, Medford estimates she’s three to four years out. Her labs have genetically-designed plants blanching white when they come into contact with TNT. But that’s in a research lab, where the amount of light is constant, “no wind, no rain, no bugs, no people dumping coffee.” Admittedly, that is pretty impressive. I’m not sure how practical it’ll be except for blanketing old land-mind beds, but who knows. Now genetically modifying weed to be able to run away from cops — that would be impressive. And genetically modifying weed to run away from cops BUT STILL FIND ITS WAY BACK HOME, well, that’s the f***ing future right there. Holy shit he even brought back snacks. BEST WEED EVER! Short video report with more in-depth info after the jump.

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Scientists Develop Bomb-Detecting Plants