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Month: June 2012

How are they immune to HIV?

12 June 2012 grant 0

That’s the mysterious question MedicalXpress may be answering with their look at a study of people infected with HIV who never come down with AIDS:

Only about one person in 300 has

… Read the rest “How are they immune to HIV?”

The oldest instruments ever played.

10 June 2012 grant 0

BBC gets into some *really* vintage sound, grooving with the world’s oldest flutes:

The flutes, made from bird bone and mammoth ivory, come from a cave in southern Germany which contains

… Read the rest “The oldest instruments ever played.”

Science Art: Figure 134, from “Face,” by Richard Partridge, in The Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology, 1839

10 June 2012 grant 0

Things will get better.

This somber fellow illustrated the “Face” article in Robert Bentley Todd’s Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology. He was drawn by Richard … Read the rest “Science Art: Figure 134, from “Face,” by Richard Partridge, in The Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology, 1839”

What’s behind your car?

8 June 2012 grant 0

PhysOrg knows, thanks to this math professor’s blind-spot-eliminating side-view mirror:

A side mirror that eliminates the dangerous “blind spot” for drivers has

… Read the rest “What’s behind your car?”

How mosquitoes dodge the rain.

7 June 2012 grant 0

Nature opens a window on a thing that has always puzzled me, and probably anyone who’s been in mosquito country in the rainy season. How do they do it? How do those persistent little … Read the rest “How mosquitoes dodge the rain.”

Worship of the White Shaman

6 June 2012 grant 0

Discover gets some of that OLD time Texas religion, decoding who, what and how the White Shaman of the Rio Grande really worshipped:

The land is barbed with cacti, teeming with rattlesnakes,

… Read the rest “Worship of the White Shaman”

Why don’t we know what blew up in 774?

5 June 2012 grant 0

Nature asks a question that gets more peculiar the more one considers it. A Japanese researcher looking at tree rings from two ancient cedars found unmistakable traces of a giant burst of… Read the rest “Why don’t we know what blew up in 774?”

Grandad’s got a better password than you, kiddo.

4 June 2012 grant 0

In all likelihood, that is. New Scientist doesn’t actually *know* your password, of course. But they know that if you’re over 55, you’re more likely to be secure than… Read the rest “Grandad’s got a better password than you, kiddo.”

Science Art: Artist concept of proposed mission to the Jupiter system, NASA/JPL, 2009

3 June 2012 grant 0

This is concept art originally painted to help NASA and ESA imagine what it might be like to explore Jupiter and its moons Ganymede and Europa – part of push to explore “outer … Read the rest “Science Art: Artist concept of proposed mission to the Jupiter system, NASA/JPL, 2009”

Renaissance grave reveals what it takes to kill a vampire.

1 June 2012 grant 0

LiveScience unearths a scientific controversy over what seems to be a plague victim’s corpse defaced by vampire hunters:

The controversy begins with a mass grave of 16th-century

… Read the rest “Renaissance grave reveals what it takes to kill a vampire.”

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