Cambridge researchers have determined that an iridescent berry is the brightest thing in nature:
… Read the rest “The shiniest living thing.”The ‘brightest’ thing in nature, the Pollia condensata fruit, does not get its blue colour
Guardian takes a look underwater, and what it sees (and, more importantly, what scientists are seeing) really doesn’t look good:
… Read the rest “The reefs are collapsing.”The decline of the reefs has been rapid: in the 1970s,
This, the text tells me, is an “outside-spring indicator, by Messrs. Elliott Bros.” The spring is not exposed to high temperature, which makes it better for indicating. I’m… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. 100 (Outside-Spring Indicator) from Steam-engine Theory and Practice by William Ripper, 1922”
Yep. Scientific American has more on the unmanned aircraft that NASA and the USGS is using to explore the alien landscape of northeastern California:
… Read the rest “Flying robot maps Surprise Valley”Yesterday marked the first day of the
Machines, BBC reports, are one step closer to personhood, thanks to Yale researchers inventing Nico, a robot who knows himself:
… Read the rest “The robot knows itself.”“It is a spatial reasoning task for the robot to understand
Say that five times fast. Harvard Gazette wraps its tendrils around a new way to build springs based on the coiling shoots of cucumber vines:
… Read the rest “Climbing cukes clinch kinky springs.”Harvard researchers, captivated by a strange
The Independent has a surprisingly lucid summary of a 25-year longitudinal study of cannabis users from ages 13 to 38. And they found that teen marijuana users dropped their IQs by 8 points… Read the rest “Cannabis does lower IQ. By about 8 points.”
It’s a bacterium. It preys on insects. And Scientific American makes me worry that one way or another, they’ll figure out a way to make us eat our own brains too:
… Read the rest “It makes them EAT THEIR OWN BRAINS. And even worse….”As well as passing
It’s an egg! A jacana laid it on some tropical riverbank or lake shore sometime in the 1800s, just so Alphonse Millot could come along and immortalize it in the pages of an encyclopedia.… Read the rest “Science Art: Oeufs 2b, 29, by Adolphe Millot, Nouveau Larousse Illustré [1897-1904]”
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