A SONIC BLACK HOLE!
That sounds so totally metal, doesn’t it? Technology Review explains how to make a sound so heavy, no light can escape: One of the many […]
Month: June 2009
Monster Jellyfish RISE!
The Discovery Channel salutes the new owners of Planet Earth, now that we humans have eliminated the fish that were keeping them in check. Whales, […]
I’ve been saying it all along.
This science comic tells the truth. They do, you know.
The delinquent gene?
I’m not sure what to make of PhysOrg’s declaration that scientist have isolated the gene that leads people to join gangs and perform acts of […]
The disgusted right.
Science Daily reveals a scientific correlation between being, like, grossed out, and being socially conservative – a link between the O’Reilly Factor and the ick […]
Drinking air.
It’s practically like the moisture farms in Star Wars. Scientific Blogging has this thing about how we could be getting drinking water from *humidity* and […]
Science Art: Mort de Harris (1824), from the Tissandier Collection at the Library of Congress.
Click to embiggen. The Death of Harris, who jumped from a hydrogen balloon in 1824. It was not a “perfectly good balloon,” as the sky […]
None more deep.
New Scientist has a picture taken by the world’s deepest-diving robot: “Nereus is like no other deep submergence vehicle,” says oceanographer Tim Shank of WHOI. […]
Laughing apes.
The AP is laughing it up over sensitive research into what makes apes laugh: To investigate that, Marina Davila Ross of the University of Portsmouth […]
A mote in an Eye Ball.
I’ve just been interviewed in this new zine, Eye Ball. It is a dictionary of joy and interesting things. There are entries consisting of bhaji […]
Oops. Uh, sorry, Martians.
“Oops,” of course, is a word that means science is going about its job correctly, because by discovering mistakes we learn what works and what […]
Paul Calle’s Apollo sketches
In 1969, NASA artist Paul Calle followed the Apollo astronauts as they prepared to climb into a capsule and ride a rocket to the moon. […]
Bisphenol-A: a Big Tobacco-style cover-up?
That seems to be what Science Blogs just published… an industry memo from the North American Metal Packaging Alliance, Inc. covering strategies for combating the […]
Skin, hair… stem cells?
The Guardian is covering a new medical breakthrough involving miracle cures made from the patients’ own skin and hair: People who are born with Fanconi […]