Behold the Pelton wheel. This is a kind of water turbine designed to turn babbling brooks into industrious electrical generators.
Beautiful imagery from the Wikipedia entry: “There… Read the rest “Science Art: Pelton Wheel, p. 1593, Webster’s New International.”
Just in case you thought we knew everything there was to know about the ancient world, New Scientist brings a little mystery back with their list of eight untranslated alphabets:
… Read the rest “Needed: Rosetta Stones, good condition, not yet used.”These fall
…but this new memory technology Neatorama’s talking about will be here to stay:
… Read the rest “Gibraltar may crumble…”Berkeley… researcher Alex Zettl and colleagues created a physical memory cell composed
You’d expect the rising ocean levels to decimate coastlines, but the New York Times points out that melting glaciers are, rather surprisingly, raising land levels in some coastal… Read the rest “Global warming real estate.”
June marks the official beginning of hurricane season. Here’s where they start from, whirling spirals off the coast of North Africa. Soon, I imagine, a couple… Read the rest “Science Art: S125-E-007900 (Canary Islands Vortices), STS-125 Shuttle Mission Imagery”
SONG: “If I Believe It” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “The science of voodoo: When mind attacks body “… Read the rest “SONG: “If I Believe It””
I’ve always reveled in the way Komodo dragons killed their prey – by having dirty mouths, chomping on quicker-moving prey and letting septicemia slowly finish them off. Well,… Read the rest “Komodo dragons: venomous after all. And how.”
PhysOrg.com has a new piece of the climate change puzzle, a discovery some call the “holy grail” of climate science:
… Read the rest “Clouds of germs (and germs of clouds).”The effects of tiny airborne particles called aerosols
BBC says that Coke’ll kill you, man:
… Read the rest “Make mine an iced tea.”This is because the drink can cause blood potassium to drop dangerously low, they report in the International Journal of Clinical Practice.
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Have you ever really looked at the logo for China’s space agency?
Seem familiar?
Yes, you have seen it before.
The Mars Rover Spirit could use a couple two-by-fours, the LA Times reports, because its wheels are spinning in place… a very faraway place:
… Read the rest “Spirit in the sand.”Over the last few days, controllers at
What might life on Mars be like? That’s the question Disney was asking TV viewers in 1957.
This has to be seen to be believed….
FANTASTIC HUNTERS WHO KILL BY CONCENTRATING THE… Read the rest “Science Art: Mars & Beyond, directed by Ward Kimball, 1957”
CNN recently covered some fun physiological research from the University of Maryland that showed that music – music you like – really is good for your heart:
… Read the rest “Music opens your heart. No, really.”Miller thought,
New Scientist examines the harmful health effects of the power of negative thinking:
… Read the rest “Imaginary poisons.”The placebo effect has an evil twin: the nocebo effect, in which dummy pills and negative expectations
Something’s gotten in The Charleston Gazette’s blood – and ours, too. You want to know the future? One word. Plastics:
… Read the rest “Food wrapper plastics are in our blood.”Around the world, scientists are closely examining
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