Mad Science Fridays: Your Stank Is a Bacterial Defense

What’s weird and wonderful in science this week?

Researchers believe your armpits stink to attract bacteria and leave your other orifices alone.
There’s a new book detailing that your not being a morning person might have more scientific basis than just you hating your job.
Here’s why so many fossils have a lot of uranium in them.
Remember when you heard sperm counts had been halved by 1990. Turns out, not so much.
To predict earthquakes, we need to stop looking at the ground and start examining tides.
Not thinking about pain doesn’t just help you deal with it emotionally…it makes the brain divert pain signals and release pain-killing chemicals
We drive like idiots, there are more cars on the road than ever, and yet it turns out that we’re actually dying in cars a lot less.
After years of trying, we’ve finally got the signature of plutonium-239, meaning we might finally be able to store nuclear waste safely.
And finally, the importance of an infamously unsolvable problem.

Anything we missed? Let us know in the comments!

image courtesy cometstarmoon on Flickr