Flying robot lands on aircraft carrier.
I’m not sure whether to be in awe of this or to be totally blase. But Reuters is reporting that for the first time, an […]
Month: July 2013
Frederick Kaufman wants to open-source genetically modified crops. And maybe save the planet.
Slate has printed his controversial plan to live up to the promise of gene science without the industrial agriculture downside: The GMO story has become […]
Wanna help explore the ocean? You can.
Nature reports on a new initiative to crowdsource oceanography: Just about the first action involved in any experiment at sea is the casting overboard of […]
Make marshes, keep Earth cool.
Laboratory Equipment recommends getting bogged down to prevent global warming, with research that shows man-made marshes can fight climate change: …[S]ays Bill Mitsch, director of […]
NASA answers 7-year-old’s letter.
Stay cool, space explorers. Never change.
Science Art: Black Hole Lensing by Urbane Legend
An animated GIF (if it’s not moving for you, click the link) showing what it looks like if you’re looking at a black hole when […]
Hipster heat maps and yuppie data visualizations
Slate brings psychogeography a step closer to the mainstream, highlighting software that uses word frequency to show what kinds of people are in what parts […]
Telescope contact lenses are a real thing.
Extreme Tech has the details on the contacts that let you see like an eagle: The center of the lens allows light to pass straight […]
Pitchers tell evolution’s story
Nature draws an ancient lesson from America’s favorite pastime, observing how baseball pitchers reveal the evolution of human beings: “Throwing projectiles probably enabled our ancestors […]
Komodo dragons’ lethal, bone-crushing jaws not all *that* dirty.
Discover Magazine tries to put the record straight, revealing that the supposedly septic-mouthed Komodo dragons have been getting a bad rap: But of all the […]