Scientific American takes a page from the Acme corporation and introduces the world’s first battery in an aerosol can:
… Read the rest “Spray-on battery turns *anything* into a power source.”The paint-on battery, like all lithium ion batteries, consists
LiveScience reports on the second Mayan text ever discovered that refers to the famous end of the Mayan calendar. They didn’t think the world was going to end then – just that… Read the rest “New Mayan text: Party like it’s 2012.”
The aptly named ExtremeTech BLOWS THE LID off connection speeds with the HEAD-SPINNING news that American and Israeli researchers have sent 2.5 terabits of data per second through the … Read the rest “Ultimate wireless. In A VORTEX.”
Remember the Flame Challenge? Alan Alda’s quest to find someone who can explain at an elementary-school level what a flame is? Well, an American quantum optics student studying … Read the rest “Ben Ames wins the Flame Challenge. He shows how fire works.”
We’ve featured prehistoric illustrator Charles L. Knight on these pages before.
While he’s best known for his dinosaur portraiture, here he moved a little… Read the rest “Science Art: Le Moustier Neanderthals, by Charles L. Knight.”
SONG: “Tired (A Neanderthal Complains).” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Neanderthals may have… Read the rest “SONG: Tired (A Neanderthal Complains)”
Graphene, as we all now know, is the latest strange form of carbon to wow material scientists with its unusual properties. Well, New Scientist shows that graphene is even stranger than we… Read the rest “Weird carbon goes *plasmonic*.”
But do they need supervision? Discover reports on the the rare humans who can see colors the rest of us can’t:
… Read the rest “Mutant women have super vision.”Living among us are people with four cones, who might experience a range
Science News examines one system for making music – by taking noise and using thumbs-up or thumbs-down votes to refine it:
… Read the rest “Musical selection. (Or how to evolve a hit.)”Inspired in part by long-running experiments probing the
New Scientist makes one more argument for breast-feeding, with research that shows breast milk seems to wipe out the virus that causes AIDS:
… Read the rest “Mother’s milk really is safe – it kills HIV.”Previous research had hinted at breast milk’s
Nature profiles Adrian Owens, a man who uses brain scans to communicate with patients in a persistent vegetative state:
… Read the rest “Reading the minds of comatose patients.”Adrian Owen still gets animated when he talks about patient 23. The
Dark field microscopy is the art of using indirect light to illuminate specimens under your microscope lens; because the light is indirect, it doesn’t shine into the microscope,… Read the rest “Science Art: Mysis2kils: Mysis Zooplankton by Uwe Kils.”
Guardian sheds new light on our so-called primitive cousins, the Neanderthals, by looking at the the oldest cave paintings ever found:
… Read the rest “Neanderthals made beautiful things.”Now comes what could be the final nail in the coffin
What more needs to be said? Wall Street Journal has the skinny on Dark Matter:
… Read the rest “GZA from Wu-Tang is making an album… with Neil DeGrasse Tyson (and other scientists)”On an early May afternoon in the offices of Neil deGrasse Tyson, the director of the Hayden Planetarium, a model
Nature has an item for the Eye-Rolling Desk at the Bureau of Bad Science. Hungarian officials are taking a hard look at a genetic analysis firm apparently specializing in “racial … Read the rest “Bad science comes back: Eugenics pops up in Eastern Europe.”
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