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This is the Japanese lunar probe Kayuga (Selene) crashing into the Moon.
More specifically, this is a 3D rendering of data sent by the probe as it ended its mission … Read the rest “Science Art: 3D movie taken by the Terrain Camera (TC) of KAGUYA (SELENE) during its maneuvered falling to the Moon.), Japanese Space Agency JAXA.”
SONG: “This is the Sound” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “Acoustic Black Hole Created in Bose-Einstein … Read the rest “SONG: This is the Sound.”
How did I only find out about this amazing, ambitious site now?
It’s the Math And Science Song Information, Viewable Everywhere (MASSIVE) database, affiliated with the Science … Read the rest “Guild Salute: MASSIVE Science Songs.”
The Scientists and Engineers for America have a fun trivia question today:
Which gas of the following is the most important greenhouse gas but will NOT be covered by the new landmark climate… Read the rest “Global Warming Trivia – from the SEA!”
Scientific American confirms my suspicions about my neighbors and their well-manicured, weedless yards. All that stuff they’re spraying? Yeah, it’ll kill you:
… Read the rest “Deadly Roundup”One label
There’s been a lot of attention paid to paying attention lately – and how we really need to not do that all the time. Wall Street Journal, Discover magazine and PhysOrg all have… Read the rest “Pay attention to your daydreaming.”
Yes, it’s the 23rd. There should be a new song here. There isn’t.
You, oh faithful readers, will have a scientific song rather soon. And then, as is the custom here, you’ll… Read the rest “Song delay….”
PhysOrg ventures into the vast Gobi Desert to reveal a historical find – the fossilized remains of the first confirmed nut-eating dinosaur:
… Read the rest “Crunchasaurus?”Larger, more numerous gizzard stones
On September 15, 2006, the Cassini Space Probe had its historic rendezvous with Saturn, giving us – five days later – the first up-close look at the… Read the rest “Science Art: Sunrise Over Saturn and its Rings, W00018160.jpg, 2006”
Scientific American casts a cold eye on music makers, and clinically reveals that yes, music really matters:
… Read the rest “Music boosts brains.”To record brain stem responses, the researchers placed electrodes on the heads
Esquire sings with neurological romance, using brain scans to tell a husband’s stirring story of the brain in love:
… Read the rest “Love from the inside out.”Against all odds, I’m still hot for my wife. Chemically,
LiveScience has interviewed some microbiologists who have woken up an alien(-ish) organism from the Greenland ice cap after a 120,000-year nap:
… Read the rest “Alive in the ice.”“Microbes have found ways to survive
So you get a cut – ouch! – and you put a band-aid on it, but first, you make sure you disinfect it with hydrogen peroxide. It gets all fizzy and then it’s cleaner, right? Ever… Read the rest “That healing fizz.”
National Geographic breaks the worrying news that Betelgeuse is shrinking:
… Read the rest “What’s squeezing Betelgeuse?”Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, first measured the star in 1993 with an infrared instrument
Gustave Whitehead was a Bavarian immigrant to Connecticut who in all likelihood made a steam-powered machine fly for more than half a mile in 1899 – not only a longer distance than … Read the rest “Science Art: Gustave Whitehead on the #21, by Dick Howell”
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