Metro.co.uk brings us yet another report on the problems with cleanliness:
… Read the rest “Too clean, too sensitive.”The modern trend for using antibacterial soaps is actually harming young people by making them more prone to
Pack up your things! Discover reports that the Cassini Saturn probe has found an oxygen atmosphere around Rhea:
… Read the rest “Saturn’s friendly moon.”Other atmospheres known to exist throughout the solar system, like that
History doesn’t repeat in circles. It makes a spiral.
Found via keepyourpebbles, from the US Geological Survey (at which you can read more about the concept.)
She starts with “Autumn Leaves” and goes on from there – just about 20 minutes of playing and talking enthusing.
More on the effervescent Ms Kurstin at TED and beyond… Read the rest “Thanksgiving Theremin: Pamelia Kurstin, TED talk/concert, 2002”
SONG: “Beyond the Ends of the Earth”. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “100 Year Starship: Nasa’s … Read the rest “SONG: Beyond the Ends of the Earth”
I am not making that up. Treehugger.com has the photographic evidence of flying squid:
… Read the rest “Squid can fly.”“From our observations it seemed like squid engaged in behaviors to prolong their flight,”
I’ll just quote the Wikimedia Commons text on this one. It tells a better story than I could.
… Read the rest “Science Art: Merman (Vir marinus episcopi specie), 1696”A relatively benign merman complete with scales caught in the Baltic
Yes. Well. New Scientist’s never-so-aptly-named “Short Sharp Science” blog revels in the discovery that the female orgasm is neurologically linked to pain:
… Read the rest “Hurt so good.”To get
That’s a rough outline of what The Telegraph says scientists are doing in what could wind up being a dramatic medical breakthrough:
… Read the rest “Inject stem cells into damaged brain. Wait.”The study, Pilot Investigation of Stem Cells in
Forget your eyes. New Scientist (have I seen them somewhere before?) says all that reading is bad for your memory:
… Read the rest “Reading names, forgetting faces.”The scans firstly confirmed which regions of the brain are associated with
This is more of a “heads up” than highlighting any particular discovery, but Medical News Today has a review of a fascinating collaboration between neuroscientists and stage… Read the rest “Sleights of Mind”
The Miami Herald reports on a new front line in a genetic war against insect-borne disease:
… Read the rest “Mutant mosquitoes fight “breakbone fever.””Researchers at Oxitec Limited, an Oxford-based company, created sterile male mosquitoes by
This big fellow is Arsinoitherium, a prehistoric swamp monster related to elephants and hyraxes. Those horns were once believed to be hollow – possibly… Read the rest “Science Art: Arsinoitherium, by Heinrich Harder”
NASA astronomers have found the equivalent of a lost continent in space – a pair of colossal radioactive bubbles rising from the galaxy:
… Read the rest “Bubbles in the Milky Way”NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Time has a vox-pop interview with professional smartypants Stephen Hawking:
… Read the rest “Hawking Q&A”Does it feel like a huge responsibility to have people expecting you to have all the answers to life’s
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