This is the thing the last song was about, LightSail, which even now is orbiting Earth and probably (if it’s going as expected) accelerating. We’re not entirely… Read the rest “Science Art: LightSail by Josh Spradling / The Planetary Society”
Science Daily covers a Northwestern University study that shows how to remove biases from your brain while you’re sleeping:
… Read the rest “Sleep away your bad attitudes.”Other researchers have documented many unsavory consequences
Nature has the grisly details about the 1,300 dolphin deaths that can be traced to that one incident:
… Read the rest “That Deepwater Horizon spill… it’s still killing dolphins.”The spike in dolphin deaths began shortly before the spill in April 2010, and scientists
Science Daily peers into the smoke clouds to see the truth behind biodegradable computer chips make from wood:
… Read the rest “Wood chips (of the computer variety).”Portable electronics — typically made of non-renewable, non-biodegradable
WesternDigs.org reveals what we now know about the ceremonial carvings hidden for centuries under the sod:
… Read the rest “Fire exposes something really interesting on Montana’s plains – an unseen stone complex.”Among the formations are two large effigies — or figures made from arrangements
In 1930, this picture… or rather, the picture with the inscriptions beside it… had never before been published. And the inscriptions are rather interesting.… Read the rest “Plate LXXVII: The First Picture of an American Butterfly from The Butterfly Book by W.J. Holland, 1930 edition.”
SONG: “I Am Sailing.”
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE:Based on “LightSail”, sail.planetary.org, retrieved 13 May 2015, as used in the post “A solar sail unfurling.… Read the rest “SONG: I Am Sailing”
Smithsonian reveals a new way to heal the easily-broken bones of the elderly – by exposing the fractures to younger blood:
… Read the rest “Young blood heals old bones. (Literally. Go figure.)”“The traditional concept is that as you get older, your bone
Science Daily paints a picture of the very first snakes… before they lost their feet:
… Read the rest “Snakes had ankles a long, long time ago.”The study, led by Yale University, USA, analyzed fossils, genes, and anatomy from 73 snake and
Nature opens the door to home-brewed heroin – just add water and sugar:
… Read the rest “Engineered yeast grows opiates at home.”A paper published on 18 May in Nature Chemical Biology reports the creation of a yeast strain containing the
Science Daily throws our sense of things slightly out of whack with news that there’s a fish out there that’s entirely warm-blooded:
… Read the rest “The moonfish is warm-blooded.”New research by NOAA Fisheries has revealed
Jaws!
Pieter Camper was a fossil collector, and in 1786, he drew this jaw he’d acquired. He thought it belonged to a toothed whale. Another collector had a similar… Read the rest “Science Art: Os Maxillaires Fossiles, by Pieter Camper.”
Science Daily goes deep, deep into our innermost selves and reveals what a brain looks like the moment a mind changes:
… Read the rest “We can watch your mind changing. This is what a decision looks like.”The findings result from experiments led by electrical engineering
Bill Nye, more than just an enthusiast on the TV, has gotten a group together – part of The Planetary Society – to test a solar sailer spacecraft next week:
… Read the rest “A solar sail unfurling. Not sometime in the unspecified future – *next week*.”LightSail™ is a citizen-funded
Nature has more on a cell phone gizmo that’s changing how medicine is done in remote places:
… Read the rest “Mobile phone microscope saving lives (and eyes) in Africa”In a study in Science Translational Medicine on 6 May, bioengineer Daniel Fletcher of the
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