A new round of tests have again observed neutrinos making the journey from CENR in Switzerland to the OPERA facility in Italy 60 nanoseconds earlier than they would have arrived traveling at the speed of light. Most physicist are still hoping that they can identify a methodological error that is causing results that violate the laws of physics as we know them, of course if they can’t, then they’ll have to rework some fundamental portions of Special Relativity (Science Mag, thanks to Wesley for the link.)

The Russian Phobos-Ground probe, headed for a Martian moon, is dead in the water…uh, I mean space. It made it into orbit but the rocket’s failed to fire for the next phase of its journey and the team on the ground have been unable to make contact to find out what went wrong. (Washington Post)

A researcher at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine gave a pregnant mouse a heart attack and then killed her two weeks later. In the examination of the heart tissues they found functional heart cells that had originated in one of her fetuses. It would be advantageous for survival for a fetus to help keep its mother alive and this may explain why women who have had heart problems before or shortly after getting pregnant have had the condition correct itself. (New Scientist)

The U.S. House of Representatives has now voted to continue funding for the James Webb Space Telescope! (Scientific American)

A team at Northwestern University has developed a lithium-ion battery that charges in 1/10th the time and last 10x as long. This was through using alternating sheets of graphene and silicon and drilling holes in the sheets. Now, the only problem is that with this vastly more efficient battery, it stands a good chance of getting quite hot and we don’t need more exploding batteries on the market. (Slashgear)

This video shows fMRI scans of a woman’s brain before, during, and after an orgasm. Note that the yellow and red are the areas of highest activity:

(New Scientist)

Humans come from a long line of non-monogamous species. Divorce and adultery rates speak to this as due stats on the average number of sex partners a person has. The article refers to a psychologist who developed a model to predict which newlywed couples would survive and which would divorce and found that most divorces take place at around 7 and 20 years. While personally I like the idea of monogamy and would rather be in a monogamous relationship than a non-monogamous one, I would be curious how open and monogamish relationships compare. Would a get out of jail free card every five years or swinging every five years improve the long term viability of a relationship? (Scientific American)