Digital Journal reports that the Large Hadron Collider has another superlative to stick in its yearbook. As well as being “most likely to succeed” and “most likely … Read the rest “LHC milestone: As dense as it gets.”
It’s a party!
I can’t tell if those are balloons or knobkerries. Either way, windows would have been broken… were there windows to break.
[Book preserved… Read the rest “Science Art: “Fig 44: Painting of a Bantu Wedding Dance” from The Pre-Historic Period in South Africa, 1910”
BBC brings back our belief in Santa Claus with an update from the Arctic Circle… that reindeer can see ultraviolet light:
… Read the rest “Reindeer can see invisible things. Of course.”“If you’re a bumblebee, you wouldn’t
The aptly named PLoS blog “The Panic Virus” brings together a few disturbing strands of information about the anti-vaccination movement and the growing threat of measles… Read the rest “Measles rising.”
OnOrbit Alpha wants all you really long-sighted business & organizational experts out there to know the Pentagon’s research arm wants your help in conquering space:
… Read the rest “The 100-Year Starship”DARPA
SONG: “Without the Sun.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on Stress can shorten telomeres in childhood, Nature… Read the rest “SONG: Without the Sun”
This is a large buckyball molecule – which is to say, a form of carbon, the same stuff in pencil leads and engagement rings, formed into a more geometrically… Read the rest “Science Art: RC540 stereo animation.gif by Brian0918”
Popular Mechanics takes a look at the loneliest planets in the universe – the ones that drift around without a star to orbit:
… Read the rest “Orphan planets”The researchers, led by David Bennett of the University
MIT’s Technology Review takes an interesting look at some atmospheric findings – hot flashes in the air, basically – that could help predict earthquakes:
… Read the rest “Earthquake warnings from above.”Dimitar
Nature reports on the deep damage suffered by kids in orphanages – not psychological, but down in their chromosomes:
… Read the rest “Stress alters kids’ chromosomes.”Children who spent their early years in state-run Romanian orphanages
No, PhysOrg says, if Google has its way, it won’t be illegal any more in Nevada if you want to send your car out for a spin without a driver:
… Read the rest “Driving while absent.”It’s not exactly clear why Google chose Nevada
The Vimeo page for this says it better than I could: On a hilltop in Maine, students at Colby College express their incredible joyfulness that everything exists.
Everything exists. Don’t… Read the rest “We Are The Result Of This Asymmetry: A Song And Dance For Radiolab”
Ants don’t actually spin webs.
This striking image is one of what will ultimately be more than 11,700 photographs – no, wait, multiply by three, 35,100 photographs… Read the rest “Science Art: CASENT0010677 (Cephalotes atratus), Antweb.”
National Geographic has some creepy new insights into one of nature’s creepiest reproductive strategies. The zombie ants – insects whose brains have been hijacked by the… Read the rest “The Soul of the Zombie Ant.”
Nature looks at the odoriferous threat to our drinking water created by new methods of natural gas mining:
… Read the rest “Fracking stinkwater.”Injecting large quantities of water and other fluids to fracture deep rock formations
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