Science Art: Fig. 9, (electrolysis of water) from Chemistry, 1876.
This is how to get hydrogen and oxygen from water – acidulated water – by using a Grove’s battery and two platinum wires. And “decomposing” […]
Month: May 2012
SONG: “This Stupid War”
SONG: “This Stupid War.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Pesticide exposure linked to brain changes: study”, AFP, via […]
Silly putty pothole repair
Science magazine shores up our infrastructure with a report on how a kid’s toy can save our streets: …[U]ndergraduates at Case Western Reserve University in […]
Magnetic bacteria make lively hard drives.
New Scientist has a knack for bringing weird science to life. In this case, electronic germ-based computers: Hard drives are usually made by “sputtering”, in […]
Blood test for breast cancer.
The Telegraph (yes, I know, but…) gives hope to the potentially millions of women fed up with the regular ritual of mammograms with news that […]
Squid muscle is the new black (and red and green and blue….)
Wired takes a leap into the cephashionable world of cephalopod textiles to give a sneak peak at next season’s color-changing squid-muscle shirts: “We have taken […]
A zeppelin for hunting space rocks.
No, McClatchy ain’t making this up. Members of SETI and NASA are using an airship to seek traces of meteorites – and, possibly, alien life: […]
Science Art: Bosch Magneto ad, Aeronautics, July, 1912
Click to embiggen In 1912, aeronautics was a sport. And the athletes had to start their engines somehow… so Bosch, now known mostly for their […]
Stupid pesticide lowers your kids’ IQs.
AFP goes even farther than that. A common pesticide actually changes the structure of kids’ brains: The study in the Proceedings of the National Academy […]
Holy viruses! (On your computer.)
PhysOrg says that porn is safer than religion… at least when it comes to online viruses: Websites with religious or ideological themes were found to […]
Atom-thick silicon is the latest miracle STUFF.
New Scientist does its best to make nanomaterials sexy… like the new silicon stuff that’s stealing carbon’s limelight: Patrick Vogt of Berlin’s Technical University in […]
They really can remember for you, wholesale….
The Freakonomics guys look at what it means to be able to make memories from scratch: Psychologists Andrew Clark, Robert A. Nash, Gabrielle Fincham, and […]