I read a report yesterday about a report by the National Science Board that stated that the US is the world leader in scientific and technological innovation, but its dominance is threatened by economic development elsewhere, but there’s no need to fear, American teens are confident they can invent solutions to some of the world’s pressing challenges.

Everyday scientists around the world make breakthroughs that make you go “WOW”(as in wow that sentence was corny).

Its with that in mind that I’ve decided to start a new feature on this blog, a scientific breakthrough roundup. This first one will be pretty long since I’ve been keeping track of stories for a few days for this post.

Study Reveals Drinking Makes You Horny

Worms Help Explain Evolution of Sleep

Team Creates Rat Heart Using Cells of Baby Rats

Teenagers Have Different Biological Clocks than Adults and Children Making Them Stay Up Later

Aggression is Seen as Reward By Brain

Scientists Use Rabies Virus Cells to Deliver Drugs Directly to Brain

Study Links Fear of Terrorism to Heart Risk

Thinking Things are More Expensive Leads to More Pleasure

Scientists Find Possible Link Between Lack of Sleep and Diabetes

Brazilian Berry Destroys Cancer Cells in Lab

Monkey’s Thoughts Propel Robot

Lipoic Acid Could Reduce Likelihood of Cardiovascular Disease and Weight Gain

Putting Friendly Microbes in Your Gut Affects Metabolism

Scientists Expand Lifespan of Simple Organism by 10 Times

Scientists Create Mice with Proto-Wings

Contact Lenses with Circuits Created to Allow for Superhuman Vision

Embryos Survive Stem Cell Harvest

New Portable Device Quickly Detects Early Alzheimer’s

Toxoplasma Infection May Increase Risk of Schizophrenia

Computer Learns Dogspeak

Scientists Say Beer Has Essential Cancer-Fighting Agents

And My Personal Favourite:

Black is the new Black: Scientists Create a Material 30 Tims Darker than the Standard for Black

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