Remember the story about the asteroid that is headed straight for Mars? Phil Plait, who writes the Bad Astronomy Blog, reports that the odds of the asteroid hitting Mars have actually improved…so now it’s only 96% unlikely to happen. He also pooh-poohs the suggestion that it’s not an asteroid at all but the [...]

(nudge-nudge, wink-wink)
This article from Live Science.com reports that researchers at University of Illinois Chicago have found a “gay” gene in fruit flies.
The gene controls the reception of glutamate in the flies’ brain cells. They found that male flies who possessed the mutation would attempt to mate with other male flies, but then they also [...]