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Month: April 2014

1 in 25 Death Row inmates don’t belong there.

30 April 2014 grant 0

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 an exoneration, most of those convicted

… Read the rest “1 in 25 Death Row inmates don’t belong there.”

We can get embryonic stem cells… by cloning adults.

29 April 2014 grant 0

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, researchers led

… Read the rest “We can get embryonic stem cells… by cloning adults.”

This vine changes shape to fit in with whatever’s nearby.

28 April 2014 grant 0

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 of mimicry—or crypsis—are known for

… Read the rest “This vine changes shape to fit in with whatever’s nearby.”

Science Art: Man-Made Producers of Noise, by Van Valkenburgh, Nooger & Neville, 1959.

27 April 2014 grant 0

manmadeproducersofnoise

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 that great stuff… especially signal-to-noise… Read the rest “Science Art: Man-Made Producers of Noise, by Van Valkenburgh, Nooger & Neville, 1959.”

Feeling the meaningless of it all? Do something selfless.

25 April 2014 grant 0

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 the idea that teens can… Read the rest “Feeling the meaningless of it all? Do something selfless.”

Did unleaded gasoline lower our crime rate?

24 April 2014 grant 0

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 putting lead in gasoline:

For most

… Read the rest “Did unleaded gasoline lower our crime rate?”

SONG: “Growing Batteries”

23 April 2014 grant 0

SONG: “Growing Batteries.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on “Process Turns Cellulose into Energy

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Home-baked carbon crystals – graphene made to order.

22 April 2014 grant 0

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] Coleman [at Trinity College, Dublin,]

… Read the rest “Home-baked carbon crystals – graphene made to order.”

My, madam, what a spiky member you have… in me….

21 April 2014 grant 0

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

… Read the rest “My, madam, what a spiky member you have… in me….”

Science Art: Diagram to show relations in ovum in ovo, 1899.

20 April 2014 grant 0

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From the sizzling pages of The American Naturalist on May 1, 1889, comes Francis H. Herrick’s fascinating study of an egg that developed inside another egg.

Howdy, neighbor!

18 April 2014 grant 0

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 life on it:

The newly-confirmed extrasolar

… Read the rest “Howdy, neighbor!”

A vision machine (as in, it gives you visions).

17 April 2014 grant 0

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 male was receiving

… Read the rest “A vision machine (as in, it gives you visions).”

Children can inherit their parents’ trauma… through Dad’s sperm.

16 April 2014 grant 0

Nature reveals how parents who live through something horrible can have children who inherit depression and anxiety – biologically, through their RNA – from traumas they… Read the rest “Children can inherit their parents’ trauma… through Dad’s sperm.”

Tobacco will save us all.

15 April 2014 grant 0

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 bioethanol:

In the course of the

… Read the rest “Tobacco will save us all.”

Science Art: Ventral view of an adult small hive beetle, Aethina tumida Murray, by Josephine Ratikan.

13 April 2014 grant 0

Florida beekeepers, know your enemy.

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