Spray-on battery turns *anything* into a power source.
Scientific American takes a page from the Acme corporation and introduces the world’s first battery in an aerosol can: The paint-on battery, like all lithium […]
Month: June 2012
New Mayan text: Party like it’s 2012.
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 […]
Ultimate wireless. In A VORTEX.
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 […]
Ben Ames wins the Flame Challenge. He shows how fire works.
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 […]
Science Art: Le Moustier Neanderthals, by Charles L. Knight.
Click to embiggen We’ve featured prehistoric illustrator Charles L. Knight on these pages before. While he’s best known for his dinosaur portraiture, here he moved […]
SONG: Tired (A Neanderthal Complains)
SONG: “Tired (A Neanderthal Complains).” [Download] (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Neanderthals may have been first human species […]
Weird carbon goes *plasmonic*.
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 […]
Mutant women have super vision.
But do they need supervision? Discover reports on the the rare humans who can see colors the rest of us can’t: Living among us are […]
Musical selection. (Or how to evolve a hit.)
Science News examines one system for making music – by taking noise and using thumbs-up or thumbs-down votes to refine it: Inspired in part by […]
Mother’s milk really is safe – it kills HIV.
New Scientist makes one more argument for breast-feeding, with research that shows breast milk seems to wipe out the virus that causes AIDS: Previous research […]
Reading the minds of comatose patients.
Nature profiles Adrian Owens, a man who uses brain scans to communicate with patients in a persistent vegetative state: Adrian Owen still gets animated when […]
Science Art: Mysis2kils: Mysis Zooplankton by Uwe Kils.
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 […]
Neanderthals made beautiful things.
Guardian sheds new light on our so-called primitive cousins, the Neanderthals, by looking at the the oldest cave paintings ever found: Now comes what could […]
GZA from Wu-Tang is making an album… with Neil DeGrasse Tyson (and other scientists)
What more needs to be said? Wall Street Journal has the skinny on Dark Matter: On an early May afternoon in the offices of Neil […]
Bad science comes back: Eugenics pops up in Eastern Europe.
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 […]