Science Magazine is about to celebrate its 125th anniversary, and to mark the occasion, the journal has published a special section with all kinds of good stuff.
The centerpiece, “125 Questions That We Don’t Know,” is a look at the big questions that face scientific inquiry over the next quarter-century… questions like Are We Alone in [...]

Three MIT computer science graduate students made headlines earlier this spring when they got organizers of a scientific conference to accept a nonsensical computer-generated text disguised as a scholarly paper.
The pranksters, Jeremy Stribling, Max Krohn, and Dan Aguayo, set out to show that some scientific conferences have extraordinarily low academic standards and are willing [...]

The New York Times [registration required, use bugmenot] has a great article today about Barbary macaques, the only non-human primates that live in the wild in Europe. Nearly 230 of these monkeys live on the tiny rock of Gibraltar, and local residents are increasingly concerned with their wild behavior.
Monkeys are running amok in the U.S. [...]

Time again to throw the day’s news together and come up with another science news smoothie!
* That chirping chickadee might be talking about you. Scientists say that bird songs

Silly Book Review, Different Points of View, Politics in Science, Flattered by Imitation, Texas Bum Steer, Science at Work, Another Boring Claim, Totally Convinced, Every-Day Stuff for the JREF, “Animal Planet” Taken to Task, Help, That Law Again, The QXCI Again, and In Closing….
All this from the Amazing Randi in the latest edition of Swift.

Organized skeptic groups spend too much time talking about science and not enough debunking jerks like Uri Geller. At least, that’s the position taken by Daniel Engber in a new Slate article called Remember Flim-Flam.
Engber attended a recent Skeptics Society conference looking for theatrics, but found the proceedings entirely too dry for his tastes:
“…the meeting [...]

A group of MIT physicists say they have created a new type of matter that could lead to improved magnets, sensors and efficient transport of electricity.
The substance, a high-temperature superfluid, is like a gas through which individual atoms can move without friction or slowing down. It’s similar to a superconductor, a substance through which which [...]

Yahoo! News has several great primate photos today, including this gem of a Sumatran orangutan getting dressed at the Moscow Zoo, and another shot of two orangutans at a temporary sanctuary in Jakarta.
Orangs are highly endangered, with wild populations probably topping out at about 55,000 apes. They’re residents of the rain forests of Borneo and [...]

Today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day is a stunning photo of the sun setting over Gusev Crater on Mars. It was taken by the rover Spirit, which is still churning out amazing images and data 431 days after its mission was expected to expire. Space.com has full coverage of the Mars rover missions.