FDA is not cuckoo for Coco Loko, a chocolatey alternative to snorting cocaine

Enlarge (credit: Legal Lean) In July, US Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer held a press conference to denounce a chocolate-flavored energy powder meant for snorting, called Coco Loko. He dubbed it “cocaine on training wheels” and called on the Food and Drug Administration to investigate. The agency did, it turns out. And though regulators didn’t […]

Cuckoo calls sound like hawks to distract the birds they’re preying on

Enlarge / This reed warbler hasn’t cottoned on yet. (credit: Per Harald Olsen / Wikimedia Commons) Cuckoos are nest parasites. That means they lay eggs in the nests of other birds, which then put the effort into raising the chicks. So you’d think they’d be quiet about it. Yet female cuckoos have a tendency to […]