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Month: March 2015

Viral science – things that spread fast.

10 March 2015 grant 0

Nature skips past the blue-and-black dress to ask: Have you seen the one about viral scholarship?:

In a paper due to appear in Management Science, Sharad Goel and his collaborators propose

… Read the rest “Viral science – things that spread fast.”

Deutsche Bank says solar has already won.

9 March 2015 grant 0

RenewEconomy follows the money in alternative energy, and focuses on a Deutsche Bank report that finds ever-cheaper batteries will make existing solar power tech way more workable:

But

… Read the rest “Deutsche Bank says solar has already won.”

Science Art: Artist’s Impression of the GX 339-4 Black-Hole Binary System, by ESA/ATG medialab

8 March 2015 grant 0

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The European Space Agency was watching the jets:

Astronomers using ESA’s Herschel space observatory have detected emission from the base of black-hole

… Read the rest “Science Art: Artist’s Impression of the GX 339-4 Black-Hole Binary System, by ESA/ATG medialab”

One supernova in four different places

6 March 2015 grant 0

Popular Science takes a wide-eyed look at gravitational lensing, the phenomenon responsible for splitting this supernova into four different images in the night sky:

But in between this

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Acid casualties aren’t (almost ever).

5 March 2015 grant 0

Nature reviews a broad survey of research – two studies that conclude psychedelic drug use can’t be linked to psychosis:

In the first study, clinical psychologists Pål-Ørjan

… Read the rest “Acid casualties aren’t (almost ever).”

Methane on Mars

4 March 2015 grant 0

IFLScience smells more traces of life on Mars, by curiously sniffing spikes of Red Planet methane:

Since it landed on the Red Planet, NASA’s Curiosity rover has been exploring the Gale crater

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One drink makes you cuter. (Not the people around you, but the person doing the drinking.)

3 March 2015 grant 0

Live Science grants us deep insight into the biochemistry of the bar pickup, revealing that prospective partners look a whole lot better after they’ve had one drink than they do after… Read the rest “One drink makes you cuter. (Not the people around you, but the person doing the drinking.)”

Programmable solids. Any shape you like.

2 March 2015 grant 0

Science magazine is shaping up for a flexible future, with a whole new kind of 3D LCD screen:

The moving images we see on a display are created by controlling the net orientation of the molecules,

… Read the rest “Programmable solids. Any shape you like.”

Science Art: Vespertilio Formosus

1 March 2015 grant 0

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A mouse-eared bat, from Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, as found on the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

It falls between a rather pleasant-looking bush… Read the rest “Science Art: Vespertilio Formosus”

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