A new environmental disaster was spotted in southern Texas when a widening sinkhole as long as two football fields ended up swallowing an 18-wheeler truck and some oil equipment. Officials from Liberty County mentioned that there were no casualties so far and that the formation posed no threat to civilian areas. You can find out more about this by reading our full article after the jump.

Dr. Tanya Byron has raided airwaves again with her latest endeavor with video games. After her six-month review of game violence, she was able to write and front a BBC TV show wherein she linked playing video games to heroin addiction. More details can be found in the full article.

Scientists have discovered that Crepis Sancta plants growing in urban areas have been producing heavier seeds that fall to the ground. The plant normally germinates using wind-blown seeds. While adaptation to the environment is pretty much expected in all living organisms, the speed at which it occurred was faster than most would probably expect. For more on this, check out the full article.

In the classic PC game Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within, the character known as Baron Friedrich von Glover said: "Nature may be cruel, but it takes only what it needs, and it does so respectfully." You'll see a group of crocodiles do that with a school of mullets, as the incident was filled by a BBC crew. Turn to the full article after the jump for more of these reptilian predators' eating habits.

Lizards eat bugs. That's just the way it is, right? Not if you ask the day gecko and the plant hopper bug. These Madagascar natives co-exist and their strange relationship has been caught on tape. As it turns out, the lizard gets dinner from the bug without having to actually gobble it up. Details in the full article.

Countless things lie beneath the surface of the ocean. Including a yellow robotic glider that looks somewhat like a torpedo. Well, at least since last December when scientists launched the glider in the Caribbean. Details in the full article.

There's a BBC documentary coming up and it'll feature an amazing collection of footages that reveal how the almost-extinct Panamanian golden frog behaves. When croaking doesn't work to attract mates, it resorts to a gesture that we humans share. Also, we'll find out what's causing the rapid decline of the unique specie's population. All that and more after the jump.

If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, what more when one glimpses at eternity? BBC's David Malone has recently released an interesting documentary we thought the other math-lovers here would fancy, titled "Dangerous Knowledge."

The film covers four mathematicians: Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing. While they were noted for being among the most brilliant minds in the realm of mathematics, all four met the same tragic end of going insane and committing suicide. The film will tackle each of these men's inner thoughts, and the work that would eventually have them immortalized in human history... and locked away in mental asylums.

We've posted a video below,w if you're thoroughly interested in viewing the flick. Be warned, however, that this could take a while - Dangerous Minds is one-and-a-half hours long. Find yourself a comfy chair, a drink, and maybe some snacks - this could be a most interesting math lesson.

 

Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a neutron star in Earth's neighborhood. The star has been nicknamed Calvera - after the bad guy in the 1960s western film The Magnificent Seven - and was first noticed by Robert Rutlidge of McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

With help from NASA's Swift satellite, the dead star's position was pinpointed more accurately. The Swift observations showed that the dead star wasn't associated with any known astronomical object, branding it as an isolated neutron star. If confirmed, it will be the eighth isolated neutron star, joining seven others that have already been discovered.

According to BBC News, the term "isolated neutron star" refers to a neutron star that "does not have an associated supernova remnant, binary companion, or radio pulsations". Calvera's exact type has yet to be determined, and Dr Rutledge has said that "either Calvera is an unusual example of a known type of neutron star, or it is some new type of neutron star, the first of its kind".

If fruits can turn into fuel, why can't peanut butter be turned into diamonds? Well, the idea kinda sounds ridiculous, but scientists have done it. Edinburgh University experts were able to do such feat by squeezing the paste between the tips of two diamonds creating a "stiletto heel effect," reports BBC News.

Malcolm McMahon, professor at the university, was quoted saying "pressure can cause extraordinary changes in all kinds of materials and can create completely novel materials." Using such pressure, they were able to create diamonds from peanut butter sandwiched between, well, diamonds.

If you're hoping that you won't have to spend thousands of bucks to woo your lover, then feel right at home. Taken from McMahon: "Obviously large gem-quality diamonds would be extremely expensive, so we are looking at ways to make them artificially. Many carbon containing materials can be converted into diamond including peanut butter."

To achieve that, research is being spent into "developing techniques that will create pressures of up to five million atmospheres" to find the metallic phase of hydrogen. This could only mean bigger and better diamonds from your favorite spread.

Demonstrations will run on July 2 to 5 to showcase the process at the Royal Society exhibition. We're hoping to make diamonds out of excess pencil lead, so may they succeed.