Sixteen Black Dot Tentacles by Ernst Haeckel.
This may look like an abstract or a mathematical exercise; it’s not. It’s an illustration of a microscopic life form. I think … Read the rest “Science Art: Sixteen Black Dot Tentacles by Ernst Haeckel”
You really wanted to see it come back, didn’t you.
I sure did….… Read the rest “Space Boomerang: A Slight Return.”
You already knew this, but the BBC Science Desk reiterates that caffeine really is brain food:
… Read the rest “Brilliant Morning Coffee”“Caffeine appears to block several of the disruptive effects of cholesterol that make
New Scientist leaves us in no doubt: the platypus is not like other animals.
… Read the rest “BREAKING: The Platypus is Weird.”Wesley Warren at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, led the international team that sequenced the
New Scientist reveals an ugly, new problem from melting glaciers. They’re dosing penguins with DDT… and us with a whole bunch of other bygone pollutants:
… Read the rest “Global Warming and DDT”The change means
New Scientist brings up the odd notion that our planet might be using invisible forces against us, with the recent discovery that geomagnetism triggers suicides:
… Read the rest “Grim Aurora: Earth’s Magnetic Field and Suicide.”Surprisingly, he also
LiveScience is skipping through the woods with news of legless lizards, horned toads and more things creeping out of an amazing new trove of animals in Brazil:
… Read the rest ““Basket of Species”. Who knew they came in baskets?”The clutch of suspected new
Astronomical charts from Gujin Tushu Jicheng, a Qing dynasty Chinese encyclopedia.
NASA is heading into the Sun:
… Read the rest “Set the Controls for the Heart of the….”NASA has tapped APL to develop the ambitious Solar Probe mission, which will study the streams of charged particles the sun hurls into space from a vantage point
Listen to this song!
It’s at Scientific American’s blog, it’s about relativity, black holes and sexiness, and it’s by a Boston University physics researcher… Read the rest ““Superluminal Lover” by Cosmos II”
LiveScience is on the line with a call about insect telephones. Please hold – this plant is busy:
… Read the rest “Tiny Telephones.”When a subterranean insect takes up residence below a plant, it settles in to feast
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