Month: May 2009
THEM! (Global Warming Edition)
Just because we’ve swapped climate change for nuclear apocalypse in our end-of-the-world imaginings, that doesn’t mean we have to give up our terror of giant spiders. At … Read the rest “THEM! (Global Warming Edition)”
Science Art: Artist’s View of Extrasolar Planet HR 8799b by NASA, ESA and G. Bacon (STScl)
You can read the full story on Hubblesite.org; the short version – Hubble found this planet in 1998, but nobody realized it until a Canadian scientist –… Read the rest “Science Art: Artist’s View of Extrasolar Planet HR 8799b by NASA, ESA and G. Bacon (STScl)”
File under: Songs, non-scientific. (Not quite remixing Pocket’s “Sampo”)
You may or may not have heard about Pocket’s 2009 Singles Project, which involves Pocket remixing original songs from a list of indie all-stars (including Robyn Hitchcock, Tanya… Read the rest “File under: Songs, non-scientific. (Not quite remixing Pocket’s “Sampo”)”
Hobbit feet.
The New York Times has nothing better to do than look at hobbit feet:
… Read the rest “Hobbit feet.”The new anatomical evidence, being reported Thursday in the journal Nature, is unlikely to solve the mystery of just where
Breathe out.
The MIT Technology Review (and other sources) have reported on a new technique that Canadian doctors devised for preparing lungs for transplants – or repairing damaged lungs –… Read the rest “Breathe out.”
Mmmm. Neurology. Oh, yeah.
Nature Neuroscience (via the BBC) lets researchers push all the right buttons after they’ve discovered brave new ways to make us feel good:
… Read the rest “Mmmm. Neurology. Oh, yeah.”A team, including scientists from the
Cosmic dacquiri.
The Guardian explains an awful lot about how things have gotten so out of hand for so very, very long by revealing proof that we’re all swimming in a cosmic dacquiri:
… Read the rest “Cosmic dacquiri.”In the latest survey,
Nanolamp!
It’s soooo cute! Look at the widdle wight buwb! Aw, New Scientist, if that tiny lamp isn’t the cutest thing ever!:
… Read the rest “Nanolamp!”Chris Regan’s team at the University of California,
Science Art: Schlieren photograph of a T-38 at Mach 1.1, altitude 13,700 feet, by Leonard Weinstein.
This is what a sonic boom looks like, through a Schlieren camera – one outfitted to see differences in air pressure. The T-38 pilot could probably feel these bands… Read the rest “Science Art: Schlieren photograph of a T-38 at Mach 1.1, altitude 13,700 feet, by Leonard Weinstein.”
Scratch that asteroid.
Science Daily blows a hole in what had been history’s biggest explosion with news that that colossal asteroid that made the Yucatan might not have killed off the dinosaurs after all… Read the rest “Scratch that asteroid.”