Smart Helmets
As if American football players don’t get enough flack from rugby-playing nations, Wired is reporting that their helmets are going electronic: Now, according to The […]
Month: January 2011
Cousin planet.
Astronomers have finally confirmed, NPR reports, the discovery of the very first Earth-like planet somewhere else in space: Astronomers have found hundreds of planets outside […]
Following leatherbacks.
The Guardian knows where the world’s largest sea turtles go: Matthew Witt, a researcher at the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at the University of […]
Scent of tears.
It’s a real turn-off, according to PhysOrg.com. They found that a chemical in women’s tears kills the mood for men – even if the crying […]
Science Art: Alligator and Snake by Maria Sibylla Merian
An illustration by Maria Sibylla Graff Merian, daughter of an engraver, step-daughter of a painter and careful observer of the natural world. She carefully documented […]
Hungry season.
Amid all the fish kills and rising gas prices, here’s a feel-good story for the season from the kindly folks at Scientific American. It seems […]
Combat wings
Beaks, sure. Talons? Terrifying. But how about Eurekalert.org’s report on prehistoric birds using their wings as clubs: “No animal has ever evolved anything quite like […]
Look inside.
This isn’t a discovery so much as a great resource (and wonderful source of visuals), but you should really look inside The Cell Image Library… […]
Subatomic sound.
NPR takes us on an audio tour of the Large Hadron Collider with a physicist who’s translating subatomic particles into sounds: “I have some musician […]
Art as science.
RISD president John Maeda, writing in Seed Magazine, makes the case for including art education in our quest for better science: Public commitments to STEM—science, […]
Science Art: Ion Engine Test Firing, NASA-JPL
Click to embiggen From the Wikimedia Commons description: This image of a xenon ion engine, photographed through a port of the vacuum chamber where it […]