Monarch migration may be over. Forever.
Laboratory Equipment has some bad news for butterflies: After steep and steady declines in the previous three years, the black-and-orange butterflies now cover only 1.65 […]
Month: January 2014
Boeing announces (with much hype) new way to turn deserts into biofuel farms.
Energy Post calls it “the BIGGEST BREAKTHROUGH EVER!” That seems a bit much, but it is interesting that a Boeing-sponsored group in Abu Dhabi has […]
There’s no such thing as a black hole. (Says Stephen Hawking.)
Nature reveals that one of the planet’s top physicists has lost his faith in one of the heaviest things in astrophysics: In a paper posted […]
Bullied kids don’t exercise.
Seems kinda obvious to anyone who’s been picked on, but Outside is taking a long-term look at how bullying affects kids’ will to work out: […]
Grandpa shrew lived with the dinosaurs.
And now, Discovery News says, we know what he looked like – the early human ancestor who lived with the dinosaurs: This ancestor, the first […]
Science Art: Cuesta de Viento Reservoir, Argentina, by USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center.
Click to embiggen This is the EROS image of the week, because the U.S. Geological Survey believes in science-as-art, too.
SONG: “The Impossible One”
SONG: “The Impossible One” [Download] (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Earth-mass exoplanet is no Earth twin,” Nature, 6 […]
Biofuel done cheaper (thanks to sulfuric acid).
Nature is predigesting our gasoline… or something like that. Researchers have found that you can get fuel out of some tough material by treating it […]
Say hi to Rosetta, the tweeting comet probe.
She’s European. And she’s making all kinds of friends on the Twitter: ESA Rosetta Mission @ESA_Rosetta 4h Labas, pasauli! Expand Reply Retweet Favorite … ESA […]
Later school starting times make for better students.
Laboratory Equipment explains why moving the morning bell a little later makes education more effective: Julie Boergers, a psychologist and sleep expert from the Bradley […]
Science Art: Spark Test For Hardness Of Metal, 1941
From the US Naval Research Laboratory manual Mechanical Practice. There’s also a *great* diagram of Phillips-head screws.
Earth-like planets might not be so Earth-like… as gassy Earth shows.
Nature examines he implications of a planet that *should* be a twin to Earth, but isn’t – because it’s a gassy Earth-sized planet: Not only […]
This robot flies like jellyfish swim.
BBC describes the first drone that can hover by flapping its wings: The work by Leif Ristroph and Stephen Childress from New York University (NYU) […]
Caffeine improves your memory.
And your mood, of course, but Laboratory Equipment doesn’t get into that. No, all they focus on is the boost caffeine gives your long-term memory: […]
Stories change your brain.
Washington Post has more on how a bit of literature can alter the structure of your brain: “Stories shape our lives and in some cases […]