Healthline doesn’t seem to be jumping to any conclusions here… just remarking that if you’re American-born, you’re more likely to have allergies than if you’re… Read the rest “Immigrant kids have fewer allergies.”
The robot is in trouble! We’ll have to help the robot breathe!
This educational illustration comes from the National Institutes of Health “History… Read the rest “Science Art: Resuscitation by mouth-to-mouth respiration, WHO/Red Cross photo”
New Scientist has more on the possible discovery of two cosmic neutrinos near the South Pole:
… Read the rest “Something strange was found in Antarctica. Something alien. And very, very small.”In June last year the IceCube neutrino telescope at the South Pole reported the sighting of two
LA Times reports on the latest low-budget, off-the-shelf NASA experiment, sending three smartphones into orbit:
… Read the rest “Smartphone satellites. NASA’s sending phones into orbit.”The three Google-HTC Nexus One smartphones are circling Earth at an altitude
Alas, no song will be posted today. It will be forthcoming, as will a penitential cover.
Nature wades into international politics (and some pretty harsh facts) with a theory for the “unintended consequences” file. Researchers are floating the idea that an international… Read the rest “Have sanctions helped Cubans live longer?”
It’s the year of magic. Or, well, the Magicicada septendecim – the 17-year magic cicada.
Have you heard?
They come back every 17 years, black-winged and red-eyed… Read the rest “Science Art: The periodical cicada (”Magicicada septendecim”), Plate 7, from Insects, their way and means of living, by R. E. Snodgrass.”
New Scientist reports on the Kepler space telescope’s latest discovery: a pair of neighboring planets that could both support life – within easy reach of each other:
… Read the rest “Buddy planets. We just found them, but they probably know each other.”Though
PhysOrg flies in the face of the conventional wisdom that holds “out of sight, out of mind” as a savings strategy. Instead, we save better by keeping our eggs in one basket:
… Read the rest “One bank account makes saving easier.”[University
Nature reveals how a mosquito-killing gene technique is being used to create better silk more efficiently:
… Read the rest “Would you wear GMO silk?”But male silkworms (Bombyx mori) are much more useful for farmers: they are more
The Atlantic reveals a culinary secret of near-Earth orbit. Astronauts love shrimp cocktail – and here’s why:
… Read the rest “The best food in space is shrimp cocktail.”Without gravity to pull blood toward the feet, especially during
AL.com showcases some science that sets straight some old stereotypes. Southerners don’t have bigger guts than Americans from the North or the West. They just tell the truth when… Read the rest “Southerners aren’t fatter. Just more honest.”
This eye-catching dress is based on retinal neurons as observed by Ferrucio Tartuferi in 1887. He put eyes under the microscope and looked at what could have been looking back at him.
The … Read the rest “Science Art: Neuroscience Dress Trippy Retina Print, by Shenova”
And, Wired says, about as thick, too. But this chip can still do everything a GPS can do… without the satellites:
… Read the rest “Military navigator half as big as the engraving on the back of a penny.”At the University of Michigan on Wednesday, researchers for Darpa
This is a few weeks old by now, but still in fashion in a gorgeously disgusting way. Science News celebrates the creation of fine fabrics using hagfish slime:
… Read the rest “Slime couture.”“The tensile properties approach
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