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Month: February 2011

Arctic submarines.

28 February 2011 grant b 0

The US Navy, Nature reports, is taking some time out to give scientists a look at what goes on beneath the Arctic Circle:

Nature talked to two of the researchers involved in the next phase of

… Read the rest “Arctic submarines.”

Science Art: Discovery’s Final Launch, by @Crooooow’s girlfriend.

27 February 2011 grant b 0


Discovery's final launch
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Reddit user Crooooow was flying from Florida to Chicago when the pilot announced that passengers could see something interesting out of the window if they looked quickly.… Read the rest “Science Art: Discovery’s Final Launch, by @Crooooow’s girlfriend.”

Smell of fertility.

25 February 2011 grant b 0

It’s fairly well known that men react slightly differently to women when the women are ovulating. What the New York Times reveals is that men in relationships are less attracted to… Read the rest “Smell of fertility.”

The stars are louder

24 February 2011 grant b 0

The song of the spheres – or, as BBC puts it, the music of the stars – is getting easier for astronomers to hear:

Bill Chaplin of the University of Birmingham told the annual meeting

… Read the rest “The stars are louder”

SONG: Answering the Call

23 February 2011 grant b 0

SONG: “Answering the Call.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on Koalas bellow to attract a mate, BBC News, 18… Read the rest “SONG: Answering the Call”

Go out and play.

22 February 2011 grant b 0

Researchers are rallying – literally – in defense of goofing off. Too much structure is hurting our children, say scientists in The Chronicle of Higher Education, who have… Read the rest “Go out and play.”

Full-throated koala love bellow.

21 February 2011 grant b 1

BBC broadcasts the remarkable, newly discovered courtship holler of the koala:

Dr [William] Ellis and his colleagues [from the University of Queensland], who report their findings in

… Read the rest “Full-throated koala love bellow.”

Science Art: Japanese Red-Bellied Newt (Cynopus pyrrhogaster), from NASA’s IML-2

20 February 2011 grant b 0

This Japanese Red-Bellied Newt was part of the payload aboard the Space Shuttle’s STS-65 mission, which carried a few odd creatures into orbit for the International Microgravity… Read the rest “Science Art: Japanese Red-Bellied Newt (Cynopus pyrrhogaster), from NASA’s IML-2”

SEA quiz: Who did what?

18 February 2011 grant b 0

Ganked shamelessly from the Scientists and Engineers for America newsletter:

To celebration Black History Month, SEA staff has chosen five brilliant scientists and engineers for this

… Read the rest “SEA quiz: Who did what?”

Deadlier than the animal.

17 February 2011 grant b 0

…is the plant. This plant, Discovery says. It’s broken the speed record for sucking animals to their deaths:

Their traps suck in prey in less than a millisecond, making this

… Read the rest “Deadlier than the animal.”

Our atomic noses.

16 February 2011 grant b 0

Normally, when we think of the way we smell things, we think of the molecules of a smelly substance – like a rose or a garlic roll – wafting into the air and then landing on our olfactory… Read the rest “Our atomic noses.”

Psychology of awkwardness.

15 February 2011 grant b 0

RSA Animate presents Steven Pinker’s frank lecture on euphemism, called “Language as a window to human nature”:

[via Inland Empire]

Learning magnets.

14 February 2011 grant b 0

PhysOrg makes me fight an overwhelming urge to start raving about “thinking caps” and “memory machines” with their look at how transcranial magnetic stimulation… Read the rest “Learning magnets.”

Science Art: Western Equine Encephalitis Virus Taken With Cryo-Electron Microscope

13 February 2011 grant b 0

This is the infectious microbe (alive? not alive? who knows?) that causes Western equine encephalitis. It’s a deadly virus.

I can remember when they said taking pictures of viruses… Read the rest “Science Art: Western Equine Encephalitis Virus Taken With Cryo-Electron Microscope”

Sleeping beneath the ice.

10 February 2011 grant b 1

Reuters reports on a Russian mission to reach an oxygen-rich lake that’s been untouched for 15 million years:

“It’s minus 40 (Celsius) outside,” [Alex] Turkeyev

… Read the rest “Sleeping beneath the ice.”

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