Yay!

Scientists figure out how to burn salt water!

Once this goes commercial, we can have water-burning power plants, and there should be little to no greenhouse gases from the creation of electricity! This means we can get electric cars running on green power! Woo! The water even recycles itself, what with the rain cycle and all that. Yay! ^^

Lie Detectors

Apparently are a fraud.

A good quote from the FAQ:

As unbelievable as this may sound, even federal agencies like the FBI and Secret Service assume that all of their applicants have cheated in school, lied to people in authority, driven under the influence of alcohol, etc.

Q. You maintain that polygraphs are biased against the truthful. How can this be?

A. Applicants who explain all their past indiscretions to the polygrapher during the “pre-test” interview and actually give honest answers to the “control” questions (and, as a consequence, feel less anxiety when answering them) face an increased likelihood of “failing” the “test.”

EDIT: Good! Wait… they had that power?!