Experts at Harborview Medical Center and the University of Washington are refining an ultrasound device that seals punctured lungs without invasive surgery, reports Science Daily. … Read the rest “Star Trek medical scanner is GO!”
New Scientist confirms the fever-dreams of many a fanatic gardener with the discovery that mammals didn’t take over right after the death of the dinosaurs – orchids did:
… Read the rest “When ORCHIDS ruled the Earth!”Santiago
Wired‘s “Danger Room” reports on like, wow, man, that’s one *TRIPPY* gun:
… Read the rest “Psychedelic Paintball”Paintballs laced with mind-altering drugs and drug-spraying robots sound like something
New Scientist strikes fear into the hearts of time travelers everywhere with a report that T. rex could have caught humans. Easily.
Which is kind of a “No, duh,” observation,… Read the rest “T. rex could have caught us.”
This is how CERN is hoping to find the Higgs Boson.
… Read the rest “Science Art: Compact Muon Solenoid of the Large Hadron Collider”At 40 feet long, it is the biggest superconducting solenoid ever made, costing $65 million, weighing about 485,000 pounds, and containing
Behold the science of engineering. LEGO engineering.
Forbidden Lego is a book by master builders Ulrik Pilegaard and Mike Dooley.
As a teaser, here’s a pdf of plans for building a … Read the rest “You’ll put an eye out.”
National Geographic reports on another Chinese river-dweller struggling to survive – the giant sturgeon, also known as the “underwater panda”:
… Read the rest “Giant “living fossil” fish on the brink”Adult sturgeons,
SONG: “Beautiful (Have Another Plum)” (To download: right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “Baboon Birth Control” entry, from… Read the rest “SONG: Beautiful (Have Another Plum)”
We’ve been watching this thing for four centuries, and we only now noticed it had a tail, as Nature reports. A really long tail:
… Read the rest “Mira, The Tail Star”Astronomers have found an unexpected treat on a star
Nature eases chafing on a tectonic level:
… Read the rest “Baby powder soothes earthquakes”Researchers drilling deep into the San Andreas fault in California report in today’s Nature the presence of talc inside a relatively sedate
Researchers Gunter Nimtz and Alfons Stahlhofen of the University of Koblenz have told New Scientist (and other sources) that they’ve broken the light barrier, sending photons … Read the rest “Speed of Light: BROKEN (in a teeny-tiny way)”
There’s been some press lately about studies that show a correlation between marijuana smoking and psychosis – as in, smoke dope, increase your risk of developing psychotic… Read the rest “Smoke ’em while the voices tell you it’s OK.”
PhysOrg blows our minds with the discovery that our skeletons are actually endocrine glands:
… Read the rest “The knee bone’s connected to the… pancreas bone?”Karsenty and his colleagues had previously shown that leptin, a hormone released by fat cells,
Romanae archetypae tabulae anatomicae novis… is a 1783 edition of a book of anatomical poses written by Bartolomeo Eustachi and illustrated by Giulio de’Musi in 1552.
from the National… Read the rest “Science Art: Romanae archetypae tabulae anatomicae novis…”
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