PepsiCo was recently sued by a man claiming that there was a mouse in a can of his Mountain Dew. Pepsi’s defense was that there is no way a mouse could have survived intact for the 15 months between bottling and drinking. Due to the work of the citric acid essentially all that would have been left was a “jelly-like substance.” (Scientific American)

Hybrid sharks have been found off the coast of Australia. They are the result of interbreeding between common black-tip sharks and the Australian black-tip shark. This may not seem like a big deal, but it has never been observed before. By doing this the sharks may be better able to adapt to climate change. (Discovery)

A new class of material has been developed that can pull CO2 straight out of the air through adsorption. What’s even cooler is that these plates can be mounted in the smokestack and they’re reusable. (Scientific American)

A recent study compared the responses of scorpions who had their eyes blocked and not blocked to cyan-green light and UV light and the results suggest that their bodies may actually detect UV light and transmit the data back to the brain, similar to what a very rudimentary eye would do. (New Scientist)

With the currently high levels of CO2 in the atmosphere the next ice age will likely not start for at least 1500 years. (Scientific American)

The Cirrhitchthys falco, a fish native to an island in Japan, can change sex several times throughout its life time with each change taking as little as a few weeks. They live in harems with one dominate male, but if he acquires too many females, dies, or otherwise leaves the group then the most dominate female will start producing testosterone, begin acting more aggressive withing a few hours and can be a fully functional male within a few weeks. Then if a harem gets taken over a more dominate male or loses too many females to justify its existence the male will switch to estrogen production, act more submissive, and be a fully functional female within a few weeks. Switch can take place several times in the life of one fish. (New Scientist)

Scientists at the Oregon Health and Science University have created three chimeric rhesus macaques each containing cells from up to six separate genomes. This has been done before in mice, but its the first for primates. (Scientific American)

A new culprit has been identified as a cause of the US’s declining honey bee population. This time its a parasitic fly that injects its eggs into the abdomen of a bee. Then when the eggs have hatched the larva will cause the bee to fly out, get disoriented, crash, and they break free killing the zombie honey bee. (Scientific American)