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Month: February 2009

The Power of a Butterfly’s Wing

10 February 2009 grant b 0

Scientists in China and Japan have come up with a new system for getting power from the sun… by building solar panels like butterfly wings:

AZoM, the A to Z of Materials:

Di Zhang and

… Read the rest “The Power of a Butterfly’s Wing”

Science Art: Lanai & Western Maui, from STS-99 Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Imagery

8 February 2009 grant b 0



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Topographic radar images of two Hawaiian islands. Rainbows in a void.

You can read more about the image at NASA’s gallery.

SONG: Iguana Rosada

6 February 2009 grant b 0

SONG: “Iguana Rosada” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: “Rare, Storied Pink Iguana Discovered”, Popular… Read the rest “SONG: Iguana Rosada”

Science Art: Crawling Neutrophil Chasing a Bacterium.

5 February 2009 grant b 0

Crawling Neutrophil Chasing a Bacterium:

From the video library at Science Hack, where this hypnotic sequence is described as: “A 16-mm movie made in the 1950s by the late David Rogers… Read the rest “Science Art: Crawling Neutrophil Chasing a Bacterium.”

Help us speak science.

3 February 2009 grant b 0

Nature’s Nascent blog has a call for volunteers to help evaluate abstracts and comments on PLoS ONE, the Public Library of Science:

I agree with Deepak’s assessment:

Is the

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Outchimped… with affection.

3 February 2009 grant b 0

The Monkey Wire (no, really) is jumping with news of a study that shows chimpanzee babies are smarter than humans:

Daily Express
Professor Kim Bard, of the Centre for the Study of Emotion

… Read the rest “Outchimped… with affection.”

National Science Foundation: Smut haven.

2 February 2009 grant b 0

SciAm blows the lid off some questionable activity in America’s science administration that wasn’t really related to research:

Among the IG’s findings: “Six cases

… Read the rest “National Science Foundation: Smut haven.”

Science Art: Jorge de Aguiar’s Compass Rose, 1492

1 February 2009 grant b 0



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From Wikimedia Commons, original in Beinecke Library, Yale University.

Jorge de Aguiar was a Portuguese cartographer who explored Ethiopia and Arabia in the early … Read the rest “Science Art: Jorge de Aguiar’s Compass Rose, 1492”

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