A new hybrid super-termite… made in Florida.
PopSci reports on the PLOS One study on what happens when two invasive exotic species combine forces: The two termite species, which originated in separate […]
Month: March 2015
Has your head ever exploded? (Or *sounded* like it?)
Science Daily peeks into the weird world of Exploding Head Syndrome, a surprisingly common condition in which young people are suddenly awoken by an ear-splitting […]
Science Art: Plate XII. An engine of great service to bore elms or other trees to make pipes to conveigh water, and for other uses, 1701
Click to embiggen An illustration from New and rare inventions of water-works; shewing the easiest ways to raise water higher than the spring. By which […]
So, one of the most common household chemicals is killing you. Surprise!
Nature analyzes the new World Health Organization (WHO) determination that Roundup weedkiller causes cancer: The cancer-research arm of the World Health Organization last week announced […]
Here’s a hydrogen-fueled train.
Science Alert reports on a new train in China – not a design, an actual vehicle – that runs on hydrogen and leaves water for […]
SONG: The Waves Around the Women
SONG: “The Waves Around the Women.” [Download] ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Scientists have discovered nature’s newest strongest material“, Washington Post, 18 February 2015,as used […]
Science Art: NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft as it passes Pluto and Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, in July 2015, by NASA/JHU APL/SwRI/Steve Gribben.
Click to embiggen This is happening now. This summer. A little flying robot is going to Pluto, the planet that wasn’t a planet, then it […]
Compassion pills.
Science Daily reports on UC Berkeley research into a chemical that makes you a nicer person: A new study by UC Berkeley and UC San […]
A new dawn of humankind
A bit of a jawbone (and a bit of computer modeling) has given us a long-awaited glimpse of our new oldest ancestor: On 29 January […]
That brain-controlling cat parasite? We’ve figured out how it works….
Science Daily plunges into the fun, fun research into how toxoplasmosis pulls your strings: The parasite is Toxoplasma gondii, which has infected an estimated one […]
A new memory will replace a similar memory: the anatomy of forgetting
BBC looks into our brains, watching scans that show how one memory can literally replace a different, but similar one: “People are used to thinking […]
The Big-Brain Gene. So here’s where the trouble started….
Sci-News.com showcases the gene that gave us (and our Neanderthal and Denisovan cousins) big brains: A gene that is responsible for brain size in modern […]
Science Art: No. 1 and No. 2, from Primer of the Clinical Microscope, 1879.
A manual from Boston Optical Works, found on archive.org. Elegant lines those instruments had.
3D printing molecules to order.
Popular Mechanics takes the 3D printer to the next level – synthesizing not new shapes, but new chemicals from scratch: In a new study published […]
Magnetic mystery satellites launching tonight
Scientific American electrifies us with news of a cluster of satellites investigating the destructive power of the northern lights: The Magnetsopheric Multiscale mission, or MMS, […]