Scientists: The moon was formed when Earth smacked her twin sister.
Nature reports on a new way of looking at lunar formation that almost reads like a myth. The moon came to be when Earth collided […]
Month: April 2015
The ethics of altering your children’s brains.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience is asking the tough questions about what… and when… we should be doing to kids’ brains with electromagnetism: As the intervention […]
Drones for archaeology
PhysOrg has more on using drones… not just to find priceless historical sites, but to protect them from looters: With aerial photographs taken by a […]
Science Art: Detail from Plate LXVIII from British oology, c. 1835
That’s Anthus aquaticus and Anthus pratensis… the rock lark up top, and the tit lark at the bottom. Stop laughing, you in the back. There […]
Robot feet that don’t need batteries.
Nature studies the beauty of mechanical advantage… in exoskeleton boots that do what feet do just a little bit better, faster, stronger: People walking in […]
Go, little Mars drone! Fly! FLY!
The Atlantic has a heartwarming story about the little flying robot that could (if only we’d let it)…