Nature covers the hard decisions that NASA faces in its latest budget… which may include shutting down a great space telescope (and an asteroid watchdog) to keep some other great … Read the rest “Farewell, Spitzer telescope?”
Scientific American watches NASA launch another satellite to watch the way our planet breathes:
… Read the rest “Watching the Earth breathe… again.”But since [David Crisp] first conceived the project nearly 15 years ago, he and other scientists
When it comes to finding new information, The Independent reports, those crazy, criss-crossing paths that ants take are more efficient than Google at processing new information:
… Read the rest “Ant colonies are smarter than Google.”The
From IBM’s patent 3470399, a device to tell how fast an electric motor is running by detecting its magnetic field.
SONG: “Something Missing.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Man prefers $50 3-D printed hand to $42,000… Read the rest “SONG: Something Missing”
Science Daily peeks into the mind of insects with new research that shows that fruit flies think before they act:
… Read the rest “Thinking insects”In experiments asking fruit flies to distinguish between ever closer concentrations
Another one for the unintended consequences file? From Slashdot (not normally a research reporting resource, but bear with us) we hear a note of concern sounded about Google cars cutting… Read the rest “Driverless cars: an economic problem.”
And now, Nature says, we know the names of the interplanetary stowaways:
… Read the rest “We’ve sent these germs to Mars.”Swabs of Curiosity’s surfaces before it was launched, including its heat shield and flight system, revealed 65
Science Daily pokes a hole in the optimism around electronic cigarettes with findings that they’re really not that different from the kind you light and burn:
… Read the rest “E-cigarettes not really that much better than the non-e variety.”The devices, which
In the 1970s, NASA hired some artists to visualize life in three kinds of space colonies. Here, we’ve got a Bernal Sphere, a “point design with a sphere living area,” … Read the rest “Science Art: Inside a Bernal Sphere Colony, by Rick Guidice/NASA Ames Research Center”
Laboratory Equipment points out that simple solutions can have bigger effects than you’d imagine, when it comes to the raw material we’re making things out of:
… Read the rest “Want to make strong fibers? Use knots!”Publishing
Robots are still, on the whole, kind of slow responders. The big breakthrough a couple of years ago with Big Dog was that it could run without tipping over – it could respond to changes… Read the rest “A robot that can catch.”
PbysOrg looks back into the distant past, when tiny shrimp left behind sperm longer than their bodies:
… Read the rest “What’s that a fossil of? Oh, just giant sperm.”The giant sperm are thought to have been longer than the male’s entire body,
Actually, gone. Imploded. BBC has more on the tragic end of the deep-sea submersible Nereus:
… Read the rest “One of our submarines is missing.”The robotic vehicle Nereus went missing while exploring one of the ocean’s deepest spots:
The Guardian (with a little help from Harvard) confirms what folks have suspected for a while – that Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is largely due to neonicotinoid pesticides:
… Read the rest “It really is the nicotine-based pesticide that’s killing all the bees.”In
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