OK, maybe “spilling” is a little imprecise, but Scientific American has the details on how to use a blood plasma extract to clean E. coli out of drinking water:
… Read the rest “Clean up E. coli by spilling some human proteins on it.”The elegant method,
As the U.S. Geological Survey puts it:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Polar Bear – POV Cams (Spring 2014), by the USGS”This video was edited and compiled from raw footage recorded by a camera equipped radio collar that was put on a female polar bear in the Beaufort Sea
Scientific American lauds the state long linked with oil money for breaking wind power production records:
… Read the rest “Lone Star? Windmill! Green energy booms in Texas.”The Lone Star State hit “peak wind” at 8:48 p.m. on March 26, when the state’s wind
Stop studying. Take a nap. That’s the message from Catholic University of Leuven researchers who found that one more hour of sleep makes a big difference to your grade:
… Read the rest “One hour more of sleep makes a measurable difference”Additionally,
SONG: “Colonies.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Bees build mental maps to get home”, Nature… Read the rest “SONG: “Colonies””
I love peppergrass. This is a great illustration of the middle part of the plant – there are actually some narrow, spiky-looking leaves that are even tastier. (I … Read the rest “Science Art: Peppergrass, by Zoe Keller”
Or so says National Geographic-profiled biopsychologist Lori Marino, an expert in the brains of “lesser” animals:
… Read the rest “Animals are people too.”Formerly a full-fledged research scientist who found
Live Science hails a bold new step in connectivity as researchers in New York City successfully transmitted a smell to Paris… via the internet:
… Read the rest “E-smell delivered across the Atlantic”NEW YORK — The first transatlantic
Science Daily has MRI proof that all those *boring* scales help switch on problem-solving, better-judgement brain areas:
… Read the rest “Music lessons build better brains”Executive functions are the high-level cognitive processes
The Independent opens wide with a new treatment that promises to help teeth repair themselves:
… Read the rest “No more dentist drills.”The technique, developed at King’s College London, effectively reverses decay by using
Argalnath makes music from hard drives and floppy drives. Like a DJ, Argalnath spins.
Look! Look at all the birds!
I honestly can’t find where this image came from originally, but it pops up just about everywhere researchers partner with NASA to do … Read the rest “Science Art: NASA Satellites [Earth Science Research Spacecraft]”
Washington Post is ready. We’re all ready. NASA is ready. They’ve figured out a way (maybe!) to explore distant stars with warp drive:
… Read the rest “Warp engines ready to engage.”NASA engineer and physicist Harold White
Who could resist that headline? But no, AP has it right – we’re the ones with the eerie, disc-shaped craft, and we’re trying to send it to Mars:
… Read the rest “NASA delays Martian flying saucer.”The space agency postponed
Nature writes so calmly about shockwaves of such epic proportions:
… Read the rest “The biggest particle accelerator in the *universe*… is made of galaxies.”Four massive clusters of galaxies are plowing into one another at a crash site about five billion light-years from Earth.
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