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Month: May 2013

Breast milk makes antibiotics work better.

30 May 2013 grant 0

Or, Sci-News.com seems to be saying, a protein from breast milk at least undoes a certain level of antibiotic resistance in some pretty nasty germs:

In petri dish and animal experiments,

… Read the rest “Breast milk makes antibiotics work better.”

Google brings the internet to Africa. By blimp.

29 May 2013 grant 0

The Telegraph reports on (or, at least, repeats Wired‘s reporting on) the dirigibles spreading the World Wide Web to places no internet has gone before:

“To help enable the campaign,

… Read the rest “Google brings the internet to Africa. By blimp.”

Twin beams of light make fiberoptics better.

28 May 2013 grant 0

By about four times, BBC reports. Using double beams of light quadruples the data capacity of fiber-optic cables:

What limits the distance a given light signal can go is how much power is

… Read the rest “Twin beams of light make fiberoptics better.”

Paint your own circuits with electronic pens.

28 May 2013 grant 0

PhysOrg gives new meaning to “magic marker” with these pens that draw flexible circuits in whatever shape you like:

London-based Bare Conductive Ltd. makes electrically

… Read the rest “Paint your own circuits with electronic pens.”

Science Art: “The Rose,” NASA Image of the Day Gallery,

26 May 2013 grant 1

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This is not actually a flower. It’s a giant hurricane – Saturn’s answer to Jupiter’s Big Red Spot.

From the NASA Image of the Day Gallery description:

This image

… Read the rest “Science Art: “The Rose,” NASA Image of the Day Gallery,”

SONG: Back to the Printer

24 May 2013 grant 0

SONG:“Back to the Printer” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on “MIT and Harvard’s 3D-Printed … Read the rest “SONG: Back to the Printer”

The shape of thoughts.

23 May 2013 grant 0

Science Daily draws a clearer map than ever before showing how complicated networks of neurons – not individual neurons – make thoughts happen:

They do not correspond to a

… Read the rest “The shape of thoughts.”

A new way of looking at dinosaur brains.

21 May 2013 grant 1

PhysOrg goes *inside* the skull to figure out how – and how quickly – a dinosaur’s brain developed:

Stephan Lautenschlager from Bristol’s School of Earth Sciences,

… Read the rest “A new way of looking at dinosaur brains.”

They printed a skull and stuck it in someone’s head.

20 May 2013 grant 0

Singularity Hub reports on the pioneering surgery that used 3D printing to replace 75 percent of a patient’s skull:

At the beginning of March of this year, a radical surgery was performed

… Read the rest “They printed a skull and stuck it in someone’s head.”

Science Art: Mei yi ge fei jie he bing ren…(Consumptive Disease), 1953.

19 May 2013 grant 0

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A medical poster about pulmonary disease. I can’t read all the writing under it (other than “yi” ((one)) and “ren” ((person))), but after the cold I’ve… Read the rest “Science Art: Mei yi ge fei jie he bing ren…(Consumptive Disease), 1953.”

Something just blew up on the Moon.

18 May 2013 grant 0

A couple months ago, NASA witnessed the largest impact on the Moon in 8 years:

“On March 17, 2013, an object about the size of a small boulder hit the lunar surface in Mare Imbrium,”

… Read the rest “Something just blew up on the Moon.”

Coloring in the blues.

17 May 2013 grant 0

Berkeley researchers have mapped out connections between the music we hear and the colors we see. That is, blues music really is blue, and Mozart’s Flute Concerto #1 is bright orange… Read the rest “Coloring in the blues.”

Computing with light.

14 May 2013 grant 0

Science Daily isn’t talking about fiberoptics. They’re looking at the latest breakthroughs that take the “electrons” out of “electronics” … Read the rest “Computing with light.”

“Space Oddity” by Commander Chris Hadfield

13 May 2013 grant 0

If you’re going to say goodbye to the International Space Station….

Science Art: Doris, from Le Larousse Pour Tous, 1909.

12 May 2013 grant 0

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“Genre de mollusques gastropodes, renfermant des animaux nus, de touts les mers.”

A popular genre of gastropods. Also the name of a boat (a dory, I reckon) and a mythological… Read the rest “Science Art: Doris, from Le Larousse Pour Tous, 1909.”

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