Nature profiles the amazing new high-atmosphere vehicle for exploring space from Antarctica:
… Read the rest “NASA breaks scientific boundaries… in ballooning.”If all continues smoothly, experts expect the flight to last for 100 days or longer. The current
University of Cambridge researchers have gotten to the root of the chord. (See, that’s a music theory joke.) No, really, they’ve found was seems to be the oldest written music… Read the rest “The oldest harmony. (Well, polyphony.)”
From Marvels of Insect Life: A Popular Account of Structure and Habit, edited by Edward Step, found in the BioDiversity Library.
This is probably not exactly the book Dylan… Read the rest “Science Art: Nest of the Honey-Wasp Attacked by Jaguar, 1916”
SONG: “Not Even Dancing Works.”
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Zoologger: Dancing in time makes crabs sexual failures“, New Scientist, 4 December 2014, … Read the rest “SONG: Not Even Dancing Works”
Popular Science charts a course to Mars that’s easier and cheaper… in a roundabout way:
… Read the rest “A new road to Mars”Spacecraft usually enter orbit around planets via Hohmann transfer, which requires
Omaha World-Herald wants the world to know about this guy who’s building a warp drive in his garage:
… Read the rest “DIY warp drive. He’s folding space in his garage.”[David] Pares’ garage is exactly as it sounds. This is not some converted hangar
It’s been a season, this holiday has.
Mea maxima culpa. One verse and an arrangement sans guitar does not a song make. It’ll be posted soon, as will a penitential cover. (I still… Read the rest “No song today.”
Science Daily reveals a bizarre hidden power of one of the world’s most common over-the-counter analgesics:
… Read the rest “Life-extension wonder-drug: Advil. In multiple species.”Regular doses of ibuprofen extended the lifespan of multiple species,
In 1984, astronauts had to ride out in the Space Shuttle Discovery to retrieve two broken-down satellites, and decided to have a little fun with their mission.
I found this… Read the rest “Science Art: Astronauts Clown Around In Space”
Science Daily takes a look at propolis, the sticky putty-like stuff honeybees use to seal up their hives. There are all kinds of health claims made about it, but one study shows that it can … Read the rest “Honeybee stuff makes your hair grow.”
New Scientist tries to keep some perspective about our great-great-etc. grandfather, Ursolestes, a prehistoric primate who might seem to us, a squirrel monkey. To dinosaurs, a giant… Read the rest “The mighty (tiny, but mighty) primate ancestor… waaay bigger than expected.”
Science Daily reveals that two kinds of phthalates – chemicals found in ordinary stuff like dryer sheets, soap, lipstick and vinyl fabrics – can drop IQ points off developing… Read the rest “Dumb chemicals drop babies’ IQs.”
Nature surveys the plastic in the seas, expects to see things like detergent bottles and Barbies breaking up into tiny “microplastic” particles, and doesn’t. So the… Read the rest “Once in the ocean, where does the plastic *go*?”
MedPage Today is among the sources spreading the determination (with no mincing of words) that sugar is just as bad as salt – if not worse – for your blood pressure:
… Read the rest “Sugar (especially the kind in fruit juice) is replacing salt as blood pressure enemy No. 1.”In a research
Making the invisible visible – the air over the South Pole, Australia, Tierra del Fuego, Cape Town and beyond.
From General Meteorology (Published Formerly Under… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig 114 – July normal sea-level pressure, Southern Hemisphere.”
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