![]() ![]() Some of the other lucky things that have found their links: black holes, cancer gene therapy, industrial relations and the southern ocean. Of course, a huge proportion of those links are fossils, including Ida, the supposed missing link between humans and lemurs that clogged up the science news cycle for days in May. I mean, what could possibly still be missing after all that? There must be an unbroken, fully linked chain running from kindergarten art projects through Lucy all the way to the Creationist Museum. Googling along with science terms gets you 4.2 million missing links. Credit: Jon Reid.ĭon't even tell me you aren't sick of all the missing links constantly being discovered. And a bonus holy grail is in the first sentence. Image: The Sydney Morning Herald caught a scientist in the actof literally shedding light on hydrogen. (Full disclosure: Erika is on my soccer team.) UPDATE: Alex Witze has taken full responsibility on behalf of Nature's editors for any clichés that have appeared in Erika's stories. Notably, Nature reporter Erika Check has been known to "throw" light on stuff like the origins of life. Not everyone is trapped in this shed, however. A couple gems: Semen Proteomics Sheds Light on Loyalty and Evolution, Sea Cucumber Sheds Light on Healing Mechanisms. And, of course, Wired Science has been known to shed a bit now and then. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Robotic Floats Shed New Light on the Iron Hypothesis, The Washington Post: Researchers Shed More Light on Bird Flu*, *and The Boston Globe: Scientists shed new light on invisibility. Googling "shed* light" + science OR scientists OR research returns 6.66 million hits, including these: Why must everything always be shedding light on something else? In addition to the light I shed on dark matter in 2006, light has also been shed on virtually everything you can think of: quantum computation, primate eye evolution, the connection between brain and loneliness, consciousness, catalyzed reactions, air quality, and even the Hope diamond. Image: National Archives photo of the magic bullet that may or may not have killed JFK. ![]() And I can't tell if this instance, Scientists to Tackle Illness with 'silver Bullet', is made better or worse by the fact that the thing being called a silver bullet is actually silver.Īnd as long as we're tossing all the bullets, we might as well send the smoking gun in after them. ![]() The LA Times asks if there's A magic bullet for pandemic flu?. And because Alexis Madrigal hasn't read his werewolf texts very closely, he occasionally tries to put golden bullets into his stories, so we'll toss those as well.Ī lot of these bullets are aimed at medical targets. In a Google search, the two together, along with science terms, get you 1.7 million hits. They attract too many angry conspiracy theorists. While we're at it, magic bullets can go into the black hole as well. Apparently they are really only meant for werewolves, witches and the occasional monster. From the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. ![]() Image: The splitting of water using a semiconductor immersed into an aqueous solution has been termed the Holy Grail of photoelectrochemistry. I hereby decree all holy grails banned from Wired Science. Here are just a few examples: Discover asks: Can Engineers Achieve the Holy Grail of Energy: Infinite and Clean?* and The Telegraph* UK says: 'Holy grail' drug can help scars heal, new research shows.Īnd yes, Wired Science is not immune: Astronomers Closer to Exoplanet Holy Grail. ![]()
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