1 in 25 Death Row inmates don’t belong there.
Or so says a new analysis published in Nature. That’s 4% of condemned people who would be exonerated given enough time: Few convictions result in […]
Month: April 2014
We can get embryonic stem cells… by cloning adults.
Nature introduces yet another ethical wrinkle into the production of stem cells, with new techniques to create cell-generating embryos from adult cells: On 17 April, […]
This vine changes shape to fit in with whatever’s nearby.
How can this vine *know* what to look like? Science looks at the first known case of shape-shifting mimicry in the vegetable kingdom: Fewer examples […]
Science Art: Man-Made Producers of Noise, by Van Valkenburgh, Nooger & Neville, 1959.
From Basic Electronics, Part 5, a manual used by the U.S. Navy to train people in the basics of aerials, transmitters, frequency modulation and all […]
Feeling the meaningless of it all? Do something selfless.
Not sure if this article from The Atlantic should go in the “no duh” file or if it’s really profound, but they’re certainly interested in […]
Did unleaded gasoline lower our crime rate?
BBC News asks a rather interesting question based on a curious correlation. Worldwide crime rates dropped, on average, at about the same time we stopped […]
SONG: “Growing Batteries”
SONG: “Growing Batteries.” [Download] (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Process Turns Cellulose into Energy Storage Devices”, Laboratory Equipment, […]
Home-baked carbon crystals – graphene made to order.
Nature is sharing a fun little recipe for whipping up the super-material graphene in a kitchen blender: In Nature Materials, a team led by [Jonathan] […]
My, madam, what a spiky member you have… in me….
Nature has published an article about a cave insect that combines the words “marathon sex session” with “the female’s spiky penis”: In desolate caves throughout […]
Science Art: Diagram to show relations in ovum in ovo, 1899.
Click to embiggen From the sizzling pages of The American Naturalist on May 1, 1889, comes Francis H. Herrick’s fascinating study of an egg that […]
Howdy, neighbor!
Universe Today celebrates a Goldilocks discovery. The Kepler mission has found a planet just the right size and in just the right place to have […]
A vision machine (as in, it gives you visions).
Science magazine turns on yet another way electromagnetism can alter the way we think and remember – by switching on vivid visual hallucinations: A 22-year-old […]
Children can inherit their parents’ trauma… through Dad’s sperm.
Nature reveals how parents who live through something horrible can have children who inherit depression and anxiety – biologically, through their RNA – from traumas […]
Tobacco will save us all.
Science Daily has the skinny on how we might wind up using fast-growing, high-density tobacco to save the planet from global warming – by creating […]
Science Art: Ventral view of an adult small hive beetle, Aethina tumida Murray, by Josephine Ratikan.
Florida beekeepers, know your enemy.