Wetware upgrade.
BBC dives into the future of computing, when we replace cold, hard silicon with a strong brew of liquid thinking machines: What distinguishes the current […]
Month: January 2010
Nuclear molemen?
Sorry, but I just can’t outdo Wired’s headline on this one: Pentagon Scientists Target Iran’s Nuclear Molemen: Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, apparently takes a personal […]
Chinese science.
Jonathan D. Moreno, writing in the Science Progress blog, takes note of the latest signs of the new Eastern superpower’s growth. China’s not just an […]
A tiny Golden Mean.
Science Daily looks at the hidden symmetry lying inside all things where we can’t see it: Researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie […]
Science Art: Cormorant, by Bob Hines.
These are cormorants – the birds that swim underwater to catch fish. I fell in love with cormorants reading Ping as a little boy (on […]
Science Art: “A Pigeon Fancier’s Manual,” by Ruth Padel.
I found this poem among three books of scientific poetry reviewed in Science Magazine, 2 October 2009. It’s from Darwin: A Life in Poems by […]
Ancient Amazonian society revealed.
National Geographic really does specialize in that whole lost jungle city thing, doesn’t it? And it’s so nice when they actually deliver faint traces of […]
Planet Styrofoam.
You’ve probably, by now, heard about the latest crop of distant planets discovered by the Kepler telescope. But have you read, in New Scientist or […]
Runners: Put the shoes down.
Science Daily throws fitness fans off their stride with a study that suggests running shoes will mess up your legs: In a study published in […]
Put the prescriptions down.
A new story on the AP wire backs up one of my hobby-horse beliefs. People are using way too many antibiotics, and it’s killing us: […]
On the tip of my tongue….
DiscoveryNews says what I was just thinking. I mean, they’ve got a machine that can do that: The first “words” detected from the subject’s brain […]
Da Vinci Studies of Fetuses, photo by Luc Viatour.
Click to embiggen. These are notes and pen-over-chalk sketches of a 4-month-old fetus (and the structure of the placenta) as seen by Leonardo da Vinci. […]
We don’t need more science education.
We need more science jobs. Over at ScienceBlogs, they crunch the numbers: Like many other things in life, you get what you pay for (if […]