Mix together a heaping portion of science news, a sprinkle of ridiculous, and a dash of spider weenies and you get episode 018 of scienceTASTIC. Mark hoists a 300 pound foam car at us, Mike exposes dirty dealing in the world of carbon credits (Scientific American, June 2009), and Joe takes us on an educational tour of spider genitalia. We also discover the missing link, question why cats were domesticated in the first place, and hope that super-high-capacity compact discs don't lead to Taylor Swift albums with 250,000 songs. And did we mention the spider weenies?

What we didn't get to: breakdancing robots and something about a ninja and a Windsor knot.

We go straight to the sources for all of the hot science headlines in this episode of scienceTASTIC.  Mike rips a story out of his May 2009 issue of Popular Mechanics about an unmanned, sniper-rifle-toting helicopter.  Mark reports from the red carpet on the Webby Award winning science websites, and one that was happy just to have been nominated. Joe gets the skinny on nano-scale DNA boxes directly from Mother Nature's official website.  (Nature.com... that sounds official.)  The fellas also take you on a tour of a new biomedical research stronghold, expose you to the warm red glow of some adorable puppy clones, and carefully measure out a 90 million ton teaspoon of neutron star.

What we didn't get to: top tools and 3D catacombs.