Scientific American shies away from putting it that bluntly, but still. Psychologists at UC Santa Barbara found that just considering the scientific method, in all its logical simplicity,… Read the rest “Thinking about science makes us better people.”
Space.com brings us hurtling into the future with the science of quantum thrusters… a real-life warp drive:
… Read the rest “NASA engages the warp drive.”A warp-drive-enabled spacecraft would look like a football with two
Discovery takes a long look at a slow death… watching life leave cell by cell… bit by bit:
… Read the rest “Death is slow. Slower than we thought.”David Gems from the Institute of Health Aging at University College London, who led
RIP, John Mainstone, custodian of the Pitch Drop Experiment. Solid or liquid, it will continue to ooze so slowly. New Straits Times marks the end of an era, but the middle of the world’s… Read the rest “Overseer of the longest experiment has passed on.”
This NASA snapshot was found in the archive.org copy of Charles Bourland and Gregory Vogt’s The Astronaut’s Cookbook, Springer Science+Business Publications, 2010.
SONG: “Regenerative Medicine” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Decellularized Mouse Heart Beats… Read the rest “SONG: “Regenerative Medicine””
National Geographic reveals what really goes on in a plant’s… mind?… when sap-thirsty plant killers are on the prowl:
… Read the rest “Plants hear herbivores coming. No, really.”[University of Wisconsin researcher John] Orrock
Nature strikes fear into the heart of the awkward would-be indie rocker with a study that shows people put more weight on the way a musician moves than on the actual music:
… Read the rest “When we judge a musician, movement matters more than the music.”The findings, reported
National Geographic explains why multituberculates – flexible, cute little pre-rodents – are so important. Before vanishing 35 million years ago, they’d been around… Read the rest “New fossil sheds light on one long-lasting group of mammals.”
Science Daily doesn’t actually get into the parents’ responses, but it’s easy enough to imagine. Columbia University researchers have linked soft drinks to “aggression,… Read the rest “Parents *shocked* by study linking soda to kids’ behavioral problems.”
In which the dissector becomes the dissected as well, sternum reaching upward like a bird’s wings in flight.
From Wikimedia Commons.
GigaOm has a great DIY project for space fans:
… Read the rest “These guys are tracking the Space Station with coat hangers.”Signals picked up by the antenna, which is made of a 10-foot wooden board and metal coat hangers, are converted into tones that differ depending
Or rather the solar system. The University of Maryland has put its foot down and said, no matter where you want to put the borders of the solar system, the plucky little probe is on the other … Read the rest “Voyager has left the building.”
Science Daily reports on a rebuilt heart – a mouse heart remade with human stem cells – that they’ve gotten to start beating:
… Read the rest “A regenerated heartbeat”For the first time, a mouse heart was able
Science Magazine examines our internal clock, and the power that sunlight has in saving us from being so tired of waking up tired:
… Read the rest “Electricity is sapping our sleep.”Turning lights on at night can delay melatonin release and
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