Why menthol makes it harder to quit.
New Scientist reveals how menthol – something originally added to cigarettes to soothe smokers’ throats – actually makes cigarettes more ‘cigarette-y’: People who smoke menthol […]
Month: December 2014
Electric eels are puppet masters
New Scientist pulls back the curtain on how electric eels “remote control” their prey, freezing them right next to their hungry mouths: The experiments that […]
Graffiti older than Neanderthals
Nature looks over some triangles – not unlike capital letter As – etched into a shell on Java and determines they were carved by Homo […]
Considering Orion.
Scientific American takes a moment, after all the hubbub last week, to think over what the success of the Orion launch means for NASA and […]
Dancing to the beat makes fiddler crab sexual… failures.
New Scientist turns our human expectations upside down once in the world of fiddler crabs. They seem musical (thus the name, after all), and they […]
Science Art: Age of Oceanic Crust, NOAA, modified by Rapture2018.
This is how the the gooey inside becomes the crusty outside… oozing up from rifts.
New materials are really cool. Like, make-your-own-unplugged-AC cool.
The Economist is following Stanford researchers who are (literally) making some really cool stuff: Fully 15% of the electricity used by buildings in the United […]
Bullet-proof fabric and cheap hydrogen fuel… and it comes from carbon.
Nature celebrates more wonders – potential ones, from flexible armor to affordable fuel cells – that we can make from graphene: Protons’ ability to travel […]
Worried? Forgetful? Is there mold in your walls?
Science News breaks some scary news to the fungus-phobic and those of us living in old buildings or moist climates. Researchers at CUNY have discovered […]
Talk to a friend in space. Or friends of a friend in space.
Business Insider, among other sources, has a neat piece on an even neater app that lets you talk to someone on the ISS: talian astronaut […]