October, 2012 | The Guild of Scientific Troubadours

Science Art: Fig. 2 – Slit Mechanism from “The Scattering of Hydrogen Positive Rays, and the Existence of a Powerful Field of Force in the Hydrogen Molecule” by G. Thompson in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

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I looked for molecules in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character (1905-1934), and this is what… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. 2 – Slit Mechanism from “The Scattering of Hydrogen Positive Rays, and the Existence of a Powerful Field of Force in the Hydrogen Molecule” by G. Thompson in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London”

Don’t tell DeBeers: Diamond twice the size of Earth found.

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AsiaOne has more on the new planet made of hot, compressed carbon:

The rocky planet, called ‘55 Cancri e’, orbits a sun-like star 40 light years away in the constellation of Cancer and is moving

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Draw your own circuits with nanotube pencils.

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Extreme Tech gets right to the point of a new technology – a mechanical pencil that can draw functional electronic circuits:

With MIT’s carbon nanotube pencil, the lead is formed

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Scientists: You can’t trust scientists.

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Fraud, reports Laboratory Equipment, is a growing problem in published research papers:

A review of retractions in medical and biological peer-reviewed journals finds the percentage

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M&M waste gives bees honey of different colors.

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French beekeepers, Russia Today tells us, were mystified when their hives started producing rainbow-colored honey – but were even more concerned when they found out the not-so-sweet… Read the rest “M&M waste gives bees honey of different colors.”

The Force is strong in this worm.

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Thrilled, Guardian is to introduce to its readers a new submarine species they’re calling the Jedi acorn worm:

Yoda purpurata is one of three new species of deep-sea acorn worms discovered

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Science Art: Pneumatische Fundation (Senkkasten Caisson), from Meyers Konversationslexikon, 1889

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A caisson is a machine for working under water.

Meyers Konversations-Lexikon is a German encyclopedia.

Rise, German engineers. Rise.

Dive, German engineers. Dive.

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Happy birthday, Neil deGrasse Tyson

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I’m taking a moment, with Archie McPhee, to celebrate the birth of a science dude.

Dude!

Mighty bacteria make gold. Not a cold, gold.

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Michigan State University biochemists (and science artists!) have made a germy philosopher’s stone:

“Microbial alchemy is what we’re doing – transforming gold from something

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Half the Great Barrier Reef is gone.

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And, says the Sydney Morning Herald, more than three-quarters of the reef will have vanished within a decade:

A long-term investigation of the reef by scientists at Townsville’s

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Electric tongue tastes proteins.

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Laboratory Equipment finds a whole new depth to that umami thing. French chemists have devised an artificial tongue sensitive enough to tell the difference between proteins:

Biosensors

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Eight new mammals discovered in Peru.

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National Geographic reveals the night monkeys and other bizarre creatures of the 70,000 acre jungle that explorers are calling “a heaven of biodiversity”:

Rarely seen and

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Month: October 2012

Science Art: Fig. 2 – Slit Mechanism from “The Scattering of Hydrogen Positive Rays, and the Existence of a Powerful Field of Force in the Hydrogen Molecule” by G. Thompson in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

Don’t tell DeBeers: Diamond twice the size of Earth found.

Draw your own circuits with nanotube pencils.

Scientists: You can’t trust scientists.

M&M waste gives bees honey of different colors.

The Force is strong in this worm.

Science Art: Pneumatische Fundation (Senkkasten Caisson), from Meyers Konversationslexikon, 1889

Happy birthday, Neil deGrasse Tyson

Mighty bacteria make gold. Not a cold, gold.

Half the Great Barrier Reef is gone.

Electric tongue tastes proteins.

Eight new mammals discovered in Peru.