Plants talk. Using fungus-phones.
BBC opens the weird world of vegetable communication, revealing the fungal networks plants use to signal one another: But below ground, most land plants are […]
Month: May 2013
Self-assembling robot worms.
Inhabitat heralds the end of human dominance on Earth with news of a 3D-printed worm that can build itself out of its own parts: Researchers […]
The guitar thing WORKS, man.
Science says so. Pacific Standard reports on two studies that find guys with guitars really are more attractive: Across cultures, the research would suggest, male […]
SONG: Aeronaut, Come.
SONG: “Aeronaut, Come” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Charles A. A. Dellschau Dreams of Flying: The Amazing Story […]
Science Art: “Star Wounds” of the Earth, 400 million years, 1998 stamp, Ukraine
Par avion? [Image via Wikimedia Commons]
An antibiotic robs pretty women of their power over men. I am not making that up.
Nature publishes a study on minocycline (remember that name, stupid men, it’s a kind of tetracycline), which not only kills germs but also keeps men […]
Cannibals of Jamestown
Smithsonian unfolds an ugly story archaeologists have uncovered of the first “successful” English settlement in America – at Jamestown, where settlers got so hungry, they […]
Forget chess-playing computers. Here’s a baseball robot.
Wired (via CNN) is sizing up the new guy on the mound – a mechanical brain designed to outsmart pitchers: Researchers at the University of […]