This isn’t actually a discovery. It’s something you can do at home. All you need is bismuth, a pot and a stove and you can grow your own crystalline rainbow skyscrapers:
… Read the rest “Chemistry crafts: crystals!”The Amazing
If they could do this with cats, a million TV watchers would pay $1,000 each. MSNBC reports on a fish with a see-through head:
… Read the rest “Barreleye, I can see inside your head.”The barreleye (Macropinna microstoma) is adapted for life in
PhysOrg, ready for a day on the beach, reports that nanotech engineers have created waterproof sand. They expect to use it to make the world’s deserts bloom. The stuff is just like … Read the rest “Waterproof sand brings promise of new life.”
SONG: “Mama Never Taught Me” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “Can experiences be passed on to offspring? … Read the rest “SONG: Mama Never Taught Me”
WebMD, usually a reassuring site filled with comforting medical knowledge, shares the recent finding that a common blood pressure drug is not actually erasing our memories, but just kind… Read the rest “Relax. We’ll clean those memories right out.”
This was what space was going to be in 1988. All acrylic paints and spindly legs.
You can read more about the Autonomous Lander of Project Pathfinder at NASA’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Exploration Imagery: S88-29653, the Project Pathfinder Autonomous Lander”
New Scientist educates us about a new study suggesting that pregnant moms’ mental workouts can affect their unborn kids’ brains:
… Read the rest “Teach ’em young. If not earlier.”Larry Feig at Tufts University School of
Pogue’s Posts‘ recent look at the latest TED talks underlines one particular presentation that seems pretty interesting. It’s by a fellow named Kamal Meattle who’s… Read the rest “Green up your office, green out your lungs.”
Or at least you can be, if MSNBC and the Soft Matter journal are to be believed. They’re publishing research that shows how cotton candy can be used to rebuild our bodies:
… Read the rest “You’re made of cotton candy.”First, you
SONG: “Army Ants”, originally by Tom Waits (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant. Originally by Tom Waits.
SOURCE: This is another… Read the rest “SONG: Army Ants (penitential Tom Waits cover)”
The SpaceMarauder blog is looking forward to some singular explosions down here on Earth, thanks to the news that the Large Hadron Collider is back online:
… Read the rest “Return of the Supercollider”Originally slated for an early
The sextant is an instrument that lets you know where you are by determining the sun’s location in the sky – how far above the horizon and how far north or south in the sky.
Essentially… Read the rest “Science Art: Astronomiska Instrument, Sextant, Nordisk familjebok”
SciAm clears up a secret of success that font-freaks already know instinctively. If we’re really going to get things done, you’ve got to tell it to us straight:
… Read the rest “Clear typefaces make life easier.”Those who had
I was reading about urban farming lately – growing food in places where normally you’d see multilevel parking garages take root – when a page on Cuba’s successful… Read the rest “The Vertical Farm”
Researchers studying the McMurdo Sound killer whales may have started something among the orcas:
… Read the rest “Snowballs and Killer Whales”LiveScience, via Yahoo:One of the whales, probably an adult female, was lolling in front
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