Viral science – things that spread fast.
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, […]
Month: March 2015
Deutsche Bank says solar has already won.
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 […]
Science Art: Artist’s Impression of the GX 339-4 Black-Hole Binary System, by ESA/ATG medialab
Click to embiggen vastly The European Space Agency was watching the jets: Astronomers using ESA’s Herschel space observatory have detected emission from the base of […]
One supernova in four different places
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 […]
Acid casualties aren’t (almost ever).
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 […]
Methane on Mars
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 […]
One drink makes you cuter. (Not the people around you, but the person doing the drinking.)
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 […]
Programmable solids. Any shape you like.
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 […]
Science Art: Vespertilio Formosus
Click to embiggen A mouse-eared bat, from Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, as found on the Biodiversity Heritage Library. It falls between a […]