Wired reveals how MIT made this cool magic trick happen – by using a little bit electricity to convert heat into light:
… Read the rest “100% efficiency? Bah. Here’s an LED that’s MORE than 100% efficient.”The LED produces 69 picowatts of light using 30 picowatts of power,
This engraving shows a bunch of humans spearing a sea turtle. But wait! A manatee looks on in terror, clutching her child! And thinks back to all the different kinds of harpoons she has seen…… Read the rest “Science Art: Manière de pêcher la Tortüe; le Lamantin from Histoire des aventuriers flibustiers, Volume I (1744)”
Associated Press goes deep inside one of America’s most macabre jobs – studying how efficiently vultures consume dead bodies:
… Read the rest “Vulture CSI: How carrion eaters are upending forensics.”Experienced investigators would normally
BBC reveals a Japanese project that combines biology, engineering and beauty – spinning violin strings out of spider silk:
… Read the rest “The music of spider-silk strings.”Shigeyoshi Osaki of Japan’s Nara Medical University
Over the transom this morning, I just got word of an amazing science-music-art project that combined six University College London biomedical researchers with six bands to make a pretty… Read the rest “A salute: Trying and trying and trying by Gethan Dick.”
Over at BoingBoing, Cory Doctorow waxes enthusiastic about the process of zapping your brain into a creative “flow” state:
… Read the rest “Slipping on the thinking cap.”The “thinking cap” is something
The Independent reports on one of those weird medical side effect whodathunkits (like Rogaine and Viagra coming from blood pressure medications). Minocycline, a drug usually used to … Read the rest “Acne antibiotics help treat schizophrenia.”
This is the Forth Bridge, spanning the famous Firth of Forth (on the way to Fife)*. And for Archibald Williams, editor of Engineering Wonders of the World, this was ripping… Read the rest “Science Art: Building the Forth Bridge, by Charles J. de Laoy, 1909”
Technology Review cuts out all the chatter with their lowdown on an honest-to-God silence ray:
… Read the rest “Silence! You fools! You will LEARN silence!”Today, Kazutaka Kurihara at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
NPR describes the joy of explorers finding “extinct” tree lobsters – the world’s largest known stick insects, once native only to Australia’s Lord Howe… Read the rest “Six-legged giant not extinct, found hiding on remote island.”
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