The Lost World.
National Geographic takes us to a lost world, hidden under Antarctic ice for 14 million years:
… Read the rest “The Lost World.”Researchers found the freeze-dried remains of mosses, algae, small crustaceans, and beetles
Month: August 2008
Windless City Power
So much for rooftop turbines – unless you’re on a farm. A new study from the UK Carbon Trust, which appeared on the CleanTechnica.com blog, found that windmills do more harm … Read the rest “Windless City Power”
It’s all magic to me.
While peeking at a Special Secret Magical Message Board, I came across this “Perspective” piece from Nature Reviews Neuroscience on magic. Specifically, it’s an … Read the rest “It’s all magic to me.”
Science Art: “The Wright Brothers’ Airplane” The New Students Reference Work
From The New Students Reference Work (1914), edited by Chandler B. Beach, associate editor Frank Morton McMurry.
Scanned by Wikimedia Commons user LA2.
Unintentional twins.
The Los Angeles Times recently reported on some trouble with DNA testing. No, it wasn’t a new OJ Simpson-style courtroom blunder, but the discovery that some of us are more genetically… Read the rest “Unintentional twins.”
Bang! Bang! You’re dead!
New Scientist draws a bead on a new kind of gun – a smart killing machine that fires bullets like toy rockets:
… Read the rest “Bang! Bang! You’re dead!”Lund and Company Invention, a toy design studio based near Chicago, makes
Lights out.
So, LabSpaces.net confirms what we’ve all been feeling after those long, late nights. Sleeplessness causes power failures in your brain:
… Read the rest “Lights out.”The research team, led by Michael Chee,
Calling Doctor Manhattan….
PopSci answers the question everyone will be asking once they see The Watchmen preview and its blue-skinned nuclear superman: How worried should you be if you’re stuck inside the… Read the rest “Calling Doctor Manhattan….”
Learn more with sleep-in-a-pill!
OK, I’m overstating for effect, but it’s not hard to imagine someone taking this discovery in Science News and marketing it that way. After all, they’ve found the chemical… Read the rest “Learn more with sleep-in-a-pill!”
Science Art: Earth and Moon as Seen from Mars
This is a photo of Earth and the moon taken on October 3, 2007, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance… Read the rest “Science Art: Earth and Moon as Seen from Mars”
The Olympic Computer.
The New York Times shares an interesting theory about the Antikythera Mechanism, the ancient clockwork computer recovered from the Mediterranean. Instead of being some kind of mathematical… Read the rest “The Olympic Computer.”