“They ate better than we did.” Scans reveal Pompeii victims’ health.
TheLocal.it looks at the petrified remains of Ancient Roman volcano victims: A recently launched project that is performing CAT scans on the remains of Pompeii […]
Month: September 2015
What social media app has the biggest political influence right now? Not Facebook. Not Twitter.
According to Quartz, in the African country of Tanzania at least,
How do you say “Hubble” in Hindi? “Astrosat” – sort of.
First Post shows how NASA’s not the only one with big space news today. India has just launched their own space observatory from Sriharikota spaceport: […]
Science Art: Red White Blood Cells, by NCI-Frederick.
The one carries oxygen around, the other keeps the system clean. They’re teeny tiny. Image from the Electron Microscopy Facility at The National Cancer Institute […]
We’ve got a battery for your home. Made from organic dye and food additives.
Science Daily looks closely at an affordable, efficient, non-toxic battery that runs your home smoothly from intermittent power sources: The mismatch between the availability of […]
SONG: Levitating Diamonds (Tiny Impossible Things)
SONG: “Levitating Diamonds (Tiny Impossible Things)”. [Download] ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Based on “Lasers used to levitate glowing nanodiamonds in a vacuum”, Science Daily, 7 Sep 2015, […]
Salmon snacks sent Stone Age settlers south.
New Scientist reveals how the first Americans made their way into Alaska and down… by eating salmon along the way: The bones were discovered in […]
SONG: One (is the Loneliest Number) (penitential cover)
SONG: “One (Is The Loneliest Number)”. ARTIST: grant, featuring Sebastian Balfour. (Originally by Harry Nilsson.) SOURCE: It doesn’t have a research source. It’s a penitential […]
Science Art: To Scale: The Solar System by Wylie Overstreet.
To Scale: The Solar System from Wylie Overstreet on Vimeo. I like the desert in Nevada already because of the sense of perspective – such […]
This yeast makes cannabinoids, no pot plants needed.
The New York Times wouldn’t call it “soylent green buffalo,” but I would. Picture, if you would, vats of yeast engineered to give off THC, […]
Love and Fitness
PLOS Biology wants us to know that in a cost/benefit analysis, love comes out ahead: A new study published in PLOS Biology by Malika Ihle, […]
American bees get a (small) break.
It’s tough being a bee for lots of reasons, but at least, as New Scientist reports, brain damage from chemical warfare won’t be as much […]
3D barcodes ensure pills (or microchips) are genuine.
Popular Science reveals a new way to check if a little thing really is what it’s labeled as: Researchers from the University of Bradford and […]
Science Art: Aequorea Forbesiana by Philip Henry Gosse.
Click to embiggen This is a jellyfish drawn by Philip Henry Gosse, a naturalist and Creationist (!) who gave us the word “aquarium” as a […]
A laser levitating glowing nanodiamonds in a vacuum.
Science Daily might not be as into the poetry of that phrase as I am. They’re more into what it means make a diamond that […]