Grist gives hope for affordable renewable energy from the engineers who’ve discovered that cones can make solar power cheaper than coal:
… Read the rest “Not solar panels – solar *cones*. That spin to keep cool.”The company is called V3Solar (formerly
Nature explores why our aging brains succumb to insomnia and forgetfulness at the same time:
… Read the rest “Don’t sleep. Forget. You are growing old.”Ageing is associated with the gradual loss of brain cells, sleep disturbances and declining
The Slashgear blog reveals DARPA’s new plan to convert decent, respectable fighter jets into pew-pew videogame laser gunships:
… Read the rest “Lasers on jets. That’s where we are now.”One of the laser projects is called the High Energy
LiveScience wonders what we should do with the bones of this lost, wretched King Richard III:
… Read the rest “Now is the parking lot of our discontent made glorious excavation site by our trowels….”The University of Leicester, which is overseeing the excavation and analysis of the remains,
An inside that is also an outside, as depicted in Python.
From the Center for Image in Science and Art, University of Lisbon.
New Scientist reveals how scientists are looking into the muddy, murky water of the Mississippi River… by getting mussels with electronic backpacks to do the hard work:
… Read the rest “Want a cleaner Mississippi? Put some mussel into it!”The plan
SONG: “In the Light” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Zoologger: The first solar-powered vertebrate”… Read the rest “SONG: “In the Light””
Miami-raised poet and engineer Richard Blanco was selected to write a poem for today’s presidential inauguration.
It begins and ends with the sky.
Here’s what he read:
… Read the rest “Science Art: “One Today,” by Richard Blanco”One
New Scientist‘s Zoologger celebrates Ambystoma maculatum, the first known vertebrate to get energy directly from sunlight:
… Read the rest “Solar powered animal.”Then in 2011 the story gained an additional twist.
A hothouse flower, far from home.
Mr. Fitch drew this picture – one of an awful lot – for The Orchid Album: Comprised of Coloured Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare and Beautiful… Read the rest “Science Art: Cattleya Maxima Backhousei by John Nugent Fitch, 1886”
NPR’s Tom Huizenga wants to know why he gets blissed out when he hears a great musical performance. So he asks musical neurologist Dan Levitin what’s going on:
… Read the rest “High on music.”The McGill University
New Scientist opens wide to tell us Mars Rover Curiosity is ready to drill into the Red Planet:
… Read the rest “Hello, Mars! This won’t hurt a bit.”Chemical analysis from one of the rover’s remote-sensing cameras shows that the veins
Nature reports that the link between youthful indulgence in marijuana and IQ loss might be overstated:
… Read the rest “Dope smokers maybe not so dopey.”Ole Røgeberg, a labour economist at the Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research
Laboratory Equipment goes all comic book superhero with a medical story on researchers taking the power of regeneration from tadpole tails:
… Read the rest “Tadpole tails are strong medicine”For several years Prof. Enrique Amaya and his
US News pictures a world with incurable sexually transmitted diseases:
… Read the rest “Antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea. If there was any doubt the party was over…”The fears of major health organizations have come true: Gonorrhea that is immune to the last remaining effective
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