Sunny smiles…
…from a solar-powered toothbrush, of course.
The invention, from University of Saskatchewan professor Kunio Komiyama and his colleague Dr. Gerry Uswak, uses electrons to replace… Read the rest “Sunny smiles…”
…from a solar-powered toothbrush, of course.
The invention, from University of Saskatchewan professor Kunio Komiyama and his colleague Dr. Gerry Uswak, uses electrons to replace… Read the rest “Sunny smiles…”
UN Scientists looking at the weather have found that over the past 500 years, climate change has marched hand in hand with war, New Scientist reports:
… Read the rest “Winds of War”The 100-year warming period would have
SONG: “Across the Night” (To download: right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant. Yes, me again.
SOURCE: The post “Virtual Mars mission – 500… Read the rest “SONG: Across the Night”
Arthropods are the creatures that have armor-like skin and jointed legs – the group that includes crawfish, scorpions, spiders and insects. The bugs. The largest arthropod currently… Read the rest “BIG bug.”
Despite being dead for, oh, 65 million years or so, dinosaurs still turn up in the darnedest places. Mainly museums, of course, but even there, the dusty shelves can still be full of surprises,… Read the rest “Unexpected dinosaurs.”
That’s the not-terribly cheerful news from Nature on the vaquita (Phocoena sinus), a porpoise from Mexico’s Pacific coast:
… Read the rest “Another dolphin nears extinction.”In 1999, researchers estimated there were 567
Polarization-microscope image of C-Phase liquid crystal, taken by Wikimedia Commons user "Minutemen."
BECAUSE YOU ASKED FOR IT…
Big band theremin. So soothing. So Golden Age of Radio. So heady with nostalgia and ether.
I hope you’re enjoying your Thanksgiving, American readers.
From the description of the video on YouTube:
… Read the rest “Gnarls Barkley on the Moog Etherwave Theremin.”The main theremin was passed through iZotope Trash, an awesome software
In America, the Thanksgiving holiday starts today (more or less). To celebrate, The Guild of Scientific Troubadours will be reveling in the gorgeous sounds of the theremin. Come, listen… Read the rest “Dvorak on the Matryomin.”
If Einstein was around today, he’d probably surf, too.
There’s a piece in the Telegraph (based, apparently, on a New Scientist clip) about Dr. A. Garrett Lisi, an “impoverished… Read the rest “Surfer creates Theory of Everything.”
Popular Science has named the nanosolar powersheet the “Best of What’s New 2007,” and for good reason. Instead of using big glass frames to generate electricity at … Read the rest “Roll out the solar!”
People nowadays look at Jules Verne as one of the forefathers of science fiction, anticipating amazing technological developments like swift, giant submarines and capsules landing … Read the rest “Jules Verne: Bleak Futurist”
A frilled dinosaur found in Montana, as imagined by science illustrator Mariana Ruiz Villarreal.
Sometimes, you just can’t win.
You’d expect a country that’s embracing electric bicycles as an alternative to cars to be lauded as an environmental savior. But scale… Read the rest “China’s electric bicycle problem”
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