Science Art: Sputnik, 1957
A technician looks over history’s first satellite prior to its October 5, 1957 launch.
Happy anniversary, outer space.
A technician looks over history’s first satellite prior to its October 5, 1957 launch.
Happy anniversary, outer space.
PhysOrg reports on a Northwestern University research team that’s found evidence linking Alzheimer’s disease to brain insulin:
… Read the rest “Is Alzheimer’s really type-3 diabetes?”They have shown that a toxic protein found
Science Daily reports on a veterinarian, Janice A. Dye, who might have found the cause of feline hyperthyroidism, an epidemic that’s been afflicting cats for nearly three decades.… Read the rest “Common flame redardant could be killing cats.”
A study from the University of Guelph finds that men often feel “coerced” into sex because we’re subject to the myth of the massive libido. In other words, social constructions… Read the rest “I don’t *feel* sexy….”
Physical anthropologists with Washington University of St. Louis have looked over some pretty old bones from a site near Tblisis and found humans were in Europe a lot earlier than we thought…… Read the rest “The Cradle of Man… in the Republic of Georgia?”
Antioxidants are good for you! They help prevent cell damage and heart disease! Except when they don’t, as researchers at the University of Utah discovered. They were studying a … Read the rest “Antioxidants: And now the bad news.”
SONG: “An Awful Lot of Empty” (To download: right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant. I’m the guy responsible for this questionable corner of the … Read the rest “SONG: An Awful Lot of Empty”
Read more on Scottish traveler Constance Gordon-Cumming and her experiences with the unique geothermal phenomena of Yellowstone (pdf file) – as well as… Read the rest “Science Art: Temporary Chimneys and Fire Fountains, Constance Gordon-Cumming, c.1880”
New Scientist reports on a new way to propel nanomachines – using wiggly little germs as propulsion (or models for propulsion) because they’re kinky:
… Read the rest “The Bacterial Kinkmobile.”The motion of Spiroplasma
Snakes, as we know too well, come in two varieties: the venomous kind, which stick you full of poison, and the constricting kind, which smother you to death. (Both kinds, naturally, are quite… Read the rest “Suffocated by bees!”
Science Daily reports on astronomers making an atypically cute discovery. The Hubble Space Telescope has isolated nine new galaxies – the smallest galaxies ever observed:
… Read the rest “Nine tiny galaxies.”…[T]he
Because they’re going there, reports Nature. Not in person (not right away, anyway), but with the launch of a new satellite system:
… Read the rest “How do you say “moon” in Japanese?”The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
That’s what those feisty young upstarts New Scientist are trying to tell us – that replacing sugar with honey will keep us bright, sharp and relaxed into our golden years:
… Read the rest “Honey keeps your brain young.”Honey-fed
Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani by anatomist Bernard Albinus and illustrator Jan Wandelaar, 1747.
Apparently, the rhino’s name was Clara, and she was quite the science… Read the rest “Science Art: Albinus & Wandelaar”
Dark energy is the mysterious force that keeps the universe from imploding – or, some say, is pushing us all farther and farther apart. Other than that, we don’t know a thing … Read the rest “Joint Dark Energy Probe: Why are we falling apart?”
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