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Harvard University researcher Ronald A. DePinho has discovered a way to reverse age degeneration for the first time. His experiments on mice have demonstrated that you can return individuals to a younger state, with new brain growth and improved fertility. More »

Scientists in Geneva, Switzerland claimed to have trapped antimatter for the first time this week. The international team at the CERN lab created an atom of anti-hydrogen, capturing it long enough to actually study the thing.

“This field is 20 years old and has been making incremental progress toward exactly this all along the way,” Jeffrey Hangst, an American scientist and spokesman for the team told the press. “We really think that this was the most difficult step.”

Antimatter, which was created during the Big Bang (along with all of the, you know, regular matter), has seemingly largely disappeared for the past several billion years or so.

The scientists have yet to actually say how long they were able to hold onto the illusive anti-atom, but they assure us that they were “much, much longer than a tenth of a second.” His words:

“Unfortunately I can’t tell you how long, because we haven’t published the number yet,” Hangst said. “But I can tell you that it’s much, much longer than a tenth of a second. Within human comprehension on a real clock.”

“Much, much longer than a death of a second” is pretty good when you’re dealing with materials that are known to disappear instantly after being created.

At the rate we’re going, chocolate is going to be a rare—and extremely pricey—commodity within the next twenty years. Somebody needs to light a fire under those Oompa-Loompas, stat. More »

The internet was totally grossed out recently by images that showed a McDonald’s hamburger sitting out in the open for six months without decomposing or rotting. But one blogger dug a bit deeper, and it turns out no hamburgers rot. More »

Ever wondered how the Prince of Darkness has stayed alive
for so long? It’s not his daily regiment of bat heads–but it’s something equally awesome. According to scientists,
mutant genes are the key to  Ozzy
Osbourne’s survival.

Scientists at Massachusetts-based laboratory Kome Inc. have
been analyzing Osbourne’s DNA, and they’ve made some fittingly bizarre
discoveries along the way, finding new genes that they’ve “never seen before,”
according to geneticist Nathaniel Pearson.

“He has an increased predisposition for alcohol
dependence of something like six times higher,” according to Knome’s
co-founder Jorge Conde. “He also had a slight increased risk for cocaine
addiction but he dismissed that. He said that if anyone has done as much
cocaine as he had, they would have been hooked.”

The scientists have yet to get their hands on Keith Richards.