Household chemicals cause as much smog as cars now?
Nature gets a little provocative with research that seems to show that as much air pollution comes from our houses as our cars: Volatile organic […]
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Creating a new kind of light
Science Daily looks at an “optical state” – a form of light that can allow engineers to create super-fast quantum computers powered by photons: Try […]
Scientists reverse Alzheimer’s (in mice).
Science Daily reports on Rockefeller University researchers who have undone the damage of Alzheimer’s Disease in mice by gradually depleting levels of a particular brain […]
Science Art: What is that green gunk?, USGS/NASA, 2 Nov 2017
Click to embiggen The answer, from the US Geological Survey’s Facebook page, is an algal bloom in Lake Erie, as photographed by Landsat: In late […]
Dim lights might make us less bright.
Science Daily turns the lights up on Michigan State University neurological research showing sitting in a darkened room can hurt the brain’s ability to remember […]
Making wood that’s stronger than steel
Nature has a new process for turning trees into a building material that’s tougher than girders or automobile frames: “It’s a new class of materials […]
Science Art: V alambicchi, from Acta Eruditorum, 1740.
Click to embiggen Alembics (or alambics), used to distill and to purify. Where whiskey comes from, and all kinds of other chemistry.
Chinese tomb with sewer security.
Xinhuanet reports on an ancient civil engineering project – a tomb from 1,000 years ago that has an elaborate system to keep water – and […]
Stonehenge architects slept here.
The Guardian reports on a new discovery shedding light on the ancient mystery of Stonehenge – by showing us where the megalithic architects lived – […]
Science Art: 2014 Evolutionary Biology – Austrian 25 Euro, designed by Helmut Andexlinger.
Click to embiggen Money! Monkey money! This is some currency art done in niobium and silver, honoring the discipline of evolutionary biology. I don’t think […]
Here’s what killed all those antelopes on the steppes. It’s warmer now.
Science News gets the answers on what suddenly killed 200,000 saiga antelopes in 2015: “If you come at dawn and dusk, it’s magical,” says E.J. […]
Killer whales speak human. A little.
Of course. Of course. The Guardian reveals that orcas can use human speech when it suits them: New research reveals that orcas are able to […]
Science Art: Expedition 54 flight engineer Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), by NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepi, Dec. 17, 2017.
Click to embiggen More astronaut optimism, less everything else. From the NASA Image HQ Flickr account: Expedition 54 flight engineer Norishige Kanai of the Japan […]
Riots spread like viruses spread like “fake news.”
The American Council on Health and Social Science looks at the epidemiology of human behavior – and things we want to believe – by finding […]
SONG: Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons
SONG: “Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Incredible ‘Hypatia’ Stone Contains Compounds Not Found in the Solar System”, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan 2018, as used in […]