Are antibiotics making us obese?
The New York Times investigates the strange history of American antibiotics – and how the medicine hailed as a “superdrug” in the 1940s might have […]
Month: March 2014
Our air pollution *weakens* hurricanes (but makes them wetter).
Science Daily says “aerosols produced by human activities” – that is, soot and exhaust fumes and all that great air pollution – definitely has an […]
This home really speaks to me. Over the internet…
The New York Times looks inside the house of tomorrow, which is staying in touch with its owner via Twitter: So it is with Tom […]
Science Art: Surface of a Western honeybee’s eye, by Janice Carr and Connie Flowers.
Click to embiggen Gaze into the eye of the bee, and the colony gazes into you. This is not honeycomb, but the individual components (ommatidia) […]
Electric current rouses the vegetative after years of unconsciousness.
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 […]
Three-armed cyborg drummer. Yeah. A drummer with a third robot arm.
Georgia Tech researchers are trying to become prosthetic Neal Pearts, Science Daily reports, with an improvising robotic drumming limb: The robotic drumming prosthesis has motors […]
Robot swarms that build. By themselves…
Nature digs up the info on the termite robots built this castle: The robots all work independently. Each travels along a grid and can move, […]
Giant, prehistoric virus thawed from Siberian permafrost.
New Scientist is not (we hope) introducing a 1950s-style horror film with their story on the giant, prehistoric virus THAT LIVES AGAIN: Dubbed a pithovirus […]
This laser turns us *on*.
At least if we’re flies, it does. Nature has more on the laser beam that puts flies in the mood for love: Optogenetics — triggering […]
Science Art: An X-class Solar Flare, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
A scientific visualization from NASA Goddard’s Scientific Visualization Studio, who have this to say about it: An X-class solar flare erupted on the left side […]