The New York Times investigates the strange history of American antibiotics – and how the medicine hailed as a “superdrug” in the 1940s might have made us an overweight… Read the rest “Are antibiotics making us obese?”
Science Daily says “aerosols produced by human activities” – that is, soot and exhaust fumes and all that great air pollution – definitely has an effect on the… Read the rest “Our air pollution *weakens* hurricanes (but makes them wetter).”
The New York Times looks inside the house of tomorrow, which is staying in touch with its owner via Twitter:
… Read the rest “This home really speaks to me. Over the internet…”So it is with Tom Coates’s San Francisco home, which live-tweets the movements
Gaze into the eye of the bee, and the colony gazes into you. This is not honeycomb, but the individual components (ommatidia) of a bee’s compound eye.
Full credit … Read the rest “Science Art: Surface of a Western honeybee’s eye, by Janice Carr and Connie Flowers.”
New Scientist has an amazing new therapy for patients in a vegetative state – using the same direct current-stimulation that increases creative “flow” to turn their… Read the rest “Electric current rouses the vegetative after years of unconsciousness.”
Georgia Tech researchers are trying to become prosthetic Neal Pearts, Science Daily reports, with an improvising robotic drumming limb:
… Read the rest “Three-armed cyborg drummer. Yeah. A drummer with a third robot arm.”The robotic drumming prosthesis has motors that
Nature digs up the info on the termite robots built this castle:
… Read the rest “Robot swarms that build. By themselves…”The robots all work independently. Each travels along a grid and can move, climb a step and lift and put down bricks. And they
New Scientist is not (we hope) introducing a 1950s-style horror film with their story on the giant, prehistoric virus THAT LIVES AGAIN:
… Read the rest “Giant, prehistoric virus thawed from Siberian permafrost.”Dubbed a pithovirus after the Greek pithos, meaning
At least if we’re flies, it does. Nature has more on the laser beam that puts flies in the mood for love:
… Read the rest “This laser turns us *on*.”Optogenetics — triggering neurons with light — has been successful in mice but
A scientific visualization from NASA Goddard’s Scientific Visualization Studio, who have this to say about it:
… Read the rest “Science Art: An X-class Solar Flare, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center”An X-class solar flare erupted on the left side of the sun on the evening of
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