There’s a new subatomic particle.
And it’s a USB! Well, that’s what Science Daily says it’s made of, anyway. It’s formally called a “Xi_b^*” and it’s just been spotted at the… Read the rest “There’s a new subatomic particle.”
Month: April 2012
Science Art: CERN-EX-1107175 01 by the LHCB Team at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.
The formal name for this image: LHCb: Event display presented at the EPS-HEP 2011 conference showing a B0s meson decaying into a ?+ and ?- pair.
It’s what happens … Read the rest “Science Art: CERN-EX-1107175 01 by the LHCB Team at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.”
Lovecraft report: Proto-organism found in remote lake sludge.
PhysOrg calls it “man’s remotest relative,” a living thing that has no branch on the tree of life. Why can’t they just call a shoggoth a shoggoth, man?:
… Read the rest “Lovecraft report: Proto-organism found in remote lake sludge.”The elusive,
Robots make the grade on essay questions.
New Scientist discusses the future of the academy, in which teachers have been replaced by essay-grading robots:
… Read the rest “Robots make the grade on essay questions.”Grading software from nine manufacturers, which together cover 97 per
You will remember… FEAR!
Science News chills us to the bone with the latest breakthrough from Mark Mayford and Susumu Tonegawa, neuroscientists at Scripps and MIT, respectively. They’ve been able to manufacture… Read the rest “You will remember… FEAR!”
Coke ages brains.
Scientific American veers into “No, really?” territory with news that cocaine ages your brain prematurely:
… Read the rest “Coke ages brains.”“As we age we all lose gray matter,” Karen Ersche of the Behavioral
DNA evidence finds Chinese medicine guilty…
…of killing endangered animals. Or at least Nature hypes up enough evidence to put Chinese medicine on trial:
… Read the rest “DNA evidence finds Chinese medicine guilty…”“There’s absolutely no honesty in the labelling of these products.
Science Art: Amerique, from the Larousse pour tous encyclopedia, 1909.
This is what America meant for Claude Auge, who edited Le Larousse pour tous nouveau dictionnaire encyclopedique in 1909.
Eskimos and tapirs.
You can browse through your… Read the rest “Science Art: Amerique, from the Larousse pour tous encyclopedia, 1909.”
Here’s why Pioneer slowed down…
Physics World has a solution for the Pioneer Anomaly – the strange slowdown experienced by both Pioneer space probes as they passed beyond the farthest reach of the solar wind. It’s… Read the rest “Here’s why Pioneer slowed down…”
You are a hive mind.
Scientific American is seething with the swarm of possibilities that bring every human decision down to the level of bees:
… Read the rest “You are a hive mind.”To Dr. Thomas Seeley, a professor of neurobiology at Cornell University,
NASA wants your Mars ideas.
The space administration needs YOU – and your vision of what we should do on Mars:
… Read the rest “NASA wants your Mars ideas.”“This is a two-way capability open to anyone,” says Doug McCuistion, director of the
Darwinian pediatrics: Painkillers are *counterproductive.*
I think I’m much more sympathetic to this viewpoint than might at first appear. New Scientist reports on medical philosophy that holds that when kids are in pain and discomfort, their… Read the rest “Darwinian pediatrics: Painkillers are *counterproductive.*”
Science Art:Dugesia Anatomy Schematic, by Andreas Neudecker
This is a flatworm. A German flatworm. It may be a distant cousin of the planarians that hypnotized Dutch artist M.C. Escher with their two-dimensional lives and their bizarre ability to… Read the rest “Science Art:Dugesia Anatomy Schematic, by Andreas Neudecker”
SONG: “Inside the Box”
SONG: “Inside the Box.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “CEOs and the Candle Problem”, Nature,… Read the rest “SONG: “Inside the Box””
Crab chips for a living computer.
New Scientist blogs about the ultimate Rube Goldberg cybernetic machine – a computer that uses living crabs for processors:
… Read the rest “Crab chips for a living computer.”Yukio-Pegio Gunji of Kobe University in Japan and colleagues