The Power of a Butterfly’s Wing
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: […]
Month: February 2009
Science Art: Lanai & Western Maui, from STS-99 Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Imagery
Click to embiggen vastly 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
SONG: “Iguana Rosada” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Rare, Storied Pink Iguana Discovered”, Popular Science, 5 Jan 2009, as used […]
Science Art: Crawling Neutrophil Chasing a Bacterium.
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 […]
Help us speak science.
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 […]
Outchimped… with affection.
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, […]
National Science Foundation: Smut haven.
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 of […]
Science Art: Jorge de Aguiar’s Compass Rose, 1492
Click to embiggen. From Wikimedia Commons, original in Beinecke Library, Yale University. Jorge de Aguiar was a Portuguese cartographer who explored Ethiopia and Arabia in […]