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Month: September 2013

NATO creates electronic-stopping beam.

12 September 2013 grant 0

The Telegraph is comparing it to a James Bond movie – a ray that makes any electronic devices in range stop working:

Scientists from the UK, Norway, the US, Germany, France and a number

… Read the rest “NATO creates electronic-stopping beam.”

Tiny diamonds zap cancer.

11 September 2013 grant 0

PhysOrg has the brilliant news about using itty bitty flecks of precious stones to boost the power of medication to treat exceptionally stubborn cases of leukemia:

Daunorubicin is currently

… Read the rest “Tiny diamonds zap cancer.”

Kamikaze moon robot back on track.

10 September 2013 grant 0

The Register is watching the skies as LADEE, NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer probe, heads for its ultimate fate:

LADEE took off atop a US Air Force Minotaur

… Read the rest “Kamikaze moon robot back on track.”

Science Art: Fulleride Cs3C60 by Dmitri Zaitsev and Joffe Ilya Naftolevich

8 September 2013 grant 0

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This is a buckyball crystal, a form of carbon that no one had ever seen until the 1980s. Now, it’s starting to get used in all kinds of unexpected ways. Formally, this stuff is is known… Read the rest “Science Art: Fulleride Cs3C60 by Dmitri Zaitsev and Joffe Ilya Naftolevich”

Sleep makes the brain cells grow.

6 September 2013 grant 0

BBC has one good reason to get a good night’s sleep tonight – because sleep boosts the number of healthy brain cells in yer head:

Sleep ramps up the production of cells that go

… Read the rest “Sleep makes the brain cells grow.”

Apollo legend dishes dirt on NASA.

5 September 2013 grant 0

Or at least speaks his mind, now that he’s retired. Houston Chronicle lets Chris Kraft, NASA’s first flight director, put it all out there on what the agency could be doing better… Read the rest “Apollo legend dishes dirt on NASA.”

Graphene makes *different* computer chips.

4 September 2013 grant 0

University of California, Riverside, researchers have made a very small breakthrough in the way computers work… one that might lead to big changes soon. They’re using atom-thin… Read the rest “Graphene makes *different* computer chips.”

Science Art: “How to Get Ahead in Science? Simple.” Jim Kelly, Houston Press, August 19, 1991.

3 September 2013 grant 0

Ever since the Buckyball story broke big last year, Rice University chemist Rick Smalley has been getting the phone calls. Rick, they say, this is Jamie in Minnesota, and I saw this article.

… Read the rest “Science Art: “How to Get Ahead in Science? Simple.” Jim Kelly, Houston Press, August 19, 1991.”

They’re growing miniature human brains from stem cells.

2 September 2013 grant 0

Reuters plunges headlong into THE FUTURE with Austrian researchers who are growing miniature brains – “cerebral organoids” – from stem cells:

To create their

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Science Art: Catafalque at a Funeral at Hubbatale, ca. 1925 from “Mortuary ritual of the Badagas of Southern India” by Paul Hockings.

1 September 2013 grant 0

CatafalqueAtHubbutale

Found on Archive.org’s collection of Fieldiana.

A “catafalque” is a kind of dais on which a coffin rests when it’s on display, as for a state funeral.

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