Gold atoms
In case you were wondering, gold atoms are cool.
Month: January 2008
Skin Rhythms.
New Scientist stops the clock with timely news about skin. Apparently, skin is pretty deep – it’s somehow tied to the brain as part of […]
Night Lights Are Killing Us?
Man, what, are teddy bears next? The Lancet reports on a survey of studies that, combined, seem to show that night lights are causing cancer […]
Health Magnet.
LiveScience notices something odd that’ll have some hard-minded skeptics practicing their eyebrow raises. Medical magnets – one of the old staples of alternative medicine pseudoscience, […]
Science Art: “Anatomical Man,” Les Très Riches Heures by Duc de Berry
Human anatomy explained as an allegory for astrology, or vice versa. From the collection of the Musée Condé, Chantilly, France.
The King of Paper Airplanes.
New Scientist reports on Japanese space scientists creating origami that’s out of this world: The origami space plane will be a similar design, Suzuki says, […]
Elephants evolve smaller tusks.
The Telegraph reports on the strange findings of Iain Douglas Hamilton and his colleagues, who appear to have discovered evidence that elephants are evolving smaller […]
SONG: You’ve Got Power
SONG: “You’ve Got Power” (To download: right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “PopSci’s Best of What’s New 2007: Innovators”, Popular Science, December 2007, as […]
That stuff you’re breathing.
Nature discusses new findings about how we’ll all get superpowers, like heat vision and wings, just by breathing! Well, what they really said was that […]
It flowers itself to death
New Scientist reports on a frankly bizarre palm tree just discovered by a family picnicking in Madagascar: “It’s a species that is so significant from […]
Science Art: Aeshna cyanea – head close-up
A common dragonfly as seen in an uncommon way by Wikimedia Commons user "Aka."
Drug for cold turkey.
The Journal of Ethnopharmacology has a survey of a subculture that could turn addiction therapy on its ear – an informal alliance of people using […]
Next step: the monkey cyborg revolution!
The New York Times unveils the creation of the world’s first globally activated monkey-guided robots: On Thursday, an alert and ready-to-work Idoya stepped onto her […]
It’s an odd universe.
That’s right. AP is reporting on an announcement from the American Astronomical Society that the universe is more violent and awe-inspiring than previously thought: The […]
You’re not real
Dude. What if, like… …like, the WHOLE UNIVERSE was just… …like, made up, maaan? Like it was all VIRTUAL REALITY, man? (asks the latest New […]