Fear remembers.

30 June 2011 grant b 0

Next time you’re stuck trying to get Boyle’s Law or some cute person’s email into your memory, think of something awful. That’s MSNBC’s solution, based […]

Evolution machine

27 June 2011 grant b 0

Genetic engineers have, in the latest New Scientist, devised a device that (deviously) speeds up the process of evolution: For instance, a yeast engineered to […]

Uncut lovers.

24 June 2011 grant b 0

That’s Denmark for you. The International Journal of Epidemiology published an article from Danish researchers who found circumcision isn’t all that great in the sack: […]

SONG: “Humidity”

23 June 2011 grant b 0

SONG: “Humidity.” [Download] (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on Star Found Shooting Water “Bullets”, National Geographic, 13 June 2011, […]

Robot astronauts.

21 June 2011 grant b 0

I suppose automation just made the Space Shuttle obsolete (or, well, something like that). MSNBC reports that the latest supply ship to the ISS is […]

A dying flash.

20 June 2011 grant b 0

CSM takes a somber look at a star essentially giving a final wave as it’s swallowed by a black hole: Using Swift observations and others […]

Star sprinklers.

16 June 2011 grant b 1

Just in time for summer, National Geographic lets us know that someone left the sprinklers on way up there: The discovery suggests that protostars may […]

Mother cow.

15 June 2011 grant b 0

It must be strange to work in a facility like the ones Sky News just reported on – the places where genetically modified cows produce […]