This is how to get hydrogen and oxygen from water – acidulated water – by using a Grove’s battery and two platinum wires. And “decomposing” the water. Try… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. 9, (electrolysis of water) from Chemistry, 1876.”
SONG: “This Stupid War.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Pesticide exposure linked to brain changes:… Read the rest “SONG: “This Stupid War””
Science magazine shores up our infrastructure with a report on how a kid’s toy can save our streets:
… Read the rest “Silly putty pothole repair”…[U]ndergraduates at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland…
New Scientist has a knack for bringing weird science to life. In this case, electronic germ-based computers:
… Read the rest “Magnetic bacteria make lively hard drives.”Hard drives are usually made by “sputtering”, in which clouds
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 a new blood test can detect cancer risk … Read the rest “Blood test for breast cancer.”
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:
… Read the rest “Squid muscle is the new black (and red and green and blue….)”“We have taken inspiration
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:
… Read the rest “A zeppelin for hunting space rocks.”On Thursday, the scientists flew
In 1912, aeronautics was a sport.
And the athletes had to start their engines somehow… so Bosch, now known mostly for their spark plugs, made magnetos. And summoned… Read the rest “Science Art: Bosch Magneto ad, Aeronautics, July, 1912”
AFP goes even farther than that. A common pesticide actually changes the structure of kids’ brains:
… Read the rest “Stupid pesticide lowers your kids’ IQs.”The study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examined New
PhysOrg says that porn is safer than religion… at least when it comes to online viruses:
… Read the rest “Holy viruses! (On your computer.)”Websites with religious or ideological themes were found to have triple the average number
New Scientist does its best to make nanomaterials sexy… like the new silicon stuff that’s stealing carbon’s limelight:
… Read the rest “Atom-thick silicon is the latest miracle STUFF.”Patrick Vogt of Berlin’s Technical
The Freakonomics guys look at what it means to be able to make memories from scratch:
… Read the rest “They really can remember for you, wholesale….”Psychologists Andrew Clark, Robert A. Nash, Gabrielle Fincham, and Giuliana Mazzoni conducted a three-stage
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