Does anyone else remember these from Insects Do The Strangest Things? Oh, what a fine children’s book that is.
From Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English … Read the rest “Science Art: Honey Ant, Webster’s New International”
This isn’t research as much as social observation, but have you heard about the iPhone girl? I noticed her story on reddit but she’s popping up all over the place:
… Read the rest “The iPhone girl.”China’s
It seems like this story hit everywhere at once, but it’s still marvelous. Here’s the BBC version of how cows always face north:
… Read the rest “The keen migratory instincts of cows.”Images from Google Earth have confirmed that
So, the BBC is talking about one of Nikola Tesla’s dreams (he of the AC current and the plasma ball) coming true in an Intel lab, where engineers are broadcasting power wirelessly: … Read the rest “Unplugged.”
You may or may not have noticed a new link in the “fellow travellers” area down there on the right.
It’s to Hello, Poindexter!, the blog of Heather D’Angelo, who… Read the rest “Hello, Poindexter.”
From the NASA Image Galleries:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Red Dwarf Flare”On April 25, 2008, NASA’s Swift satellite picked up a record-setting flare from a star known as EV Lacertae. This flare was
SONG: “When the Lights Go Out.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “Sleep-deprived brains alternate between… Read the rest “SONG: When the Lights Go Out.”
LiveScience makes clear that sometimes, contraception isn’t the best decision. Or, well, doesn’t help you make the best decisions… because birth control pills befuddle… Read the rest “Bad choices and birth control.”
The great thing about laser weapons, New Scientist says, isn’t just that you can fry your enemy from miles away. You can also shrug your shoulders and say, “No, really, I didn’t… Read the rest “The plausibly deniable death ray.”
New Scientist has just given me stress-induced palpitations with their finding that the more wives, the longer-lived the man:
… Read the rest “*More* spouses?”After accounting for socioeconomic differences, men aged
Bug-watchers at the 12th International Behavioral Ecology Congress have brought the world’s attention (and the attention of the fine bloggers at Greenupgrader.com) to a previously… Read the rest “Vegetarian spiders. Like panthers.”
Dailytech.com is smiling (or is it just gas?) over the latest trick we’ve gotten E. coli to perform. Geneticists have altered the food-poisoning germ so that it excretes diesel fuel… Read the rest “Better than Shinola.”
The Spitzer Space Telescope being sent on its way aboard a huge, hot Delta rocket, as a honeybee might have seen it.
… Read the rest “Science Art: Spitzer Infrared Launch”When Spitzer launched Monday, 25 August 2003 at 1:35:39 a.m. EDT from Cape
If you like your food a little spicy, EurekAlert.org might whet your appetite in a crawly kind of way… because hot peppers owe everything to bugs:
… Read the rest “Spicy bugs.”The spiciness is a defense mechanism
Wired burst bubble! Science-head say me no Neanderthal no how:
… Read the rest “I no caveman? Unk!”Scientists who sequenced the mitochondrial DNA of a 38,000-year-old Neanderthal returned no evidence of ancestral interbreeding
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