Ever the showman, Elon Musk has announced his plans (via Agence France-Presse) to not only launch one of the largest rockets ever into Mars orbit next month, but to have it carrying his own… Read the rest “Falcon Heavy will carry Elon Musk’s car to Mars next month.”
Science Daily reveals how MIT researchers used 3D printing to create the world’s first temporary tattoo made from living cells that act as sensors or circuits:
… Read the rest “A living tattoo that’s also a computer.”The cells are engineered
LiveScience reports on Norwegian railway construction workers who found a whetstone carved with a (relatively rare) runic inscription:
… Read the rest “We found some runes by the railway….”Runic writing was used in Norway and other parts
Look up!
I’m not sure exactly what the story is behind this image, because it’s part of the bewildering-but-great (and partially mechanically curated) … Read the rest “Science Art: The Great Telescope, Melbourne Observatory”
The Guardian takes us to Xinjiang, where paleontologists have opened a new window onto the past by unearthing an amazing trove of fossilized pterodactyl eggs:
… Read the rest “Pterodactyl treasure trove.”Scientists said on Thursday
Science News demonstrates how the prehistoric agricultural revolution was fueled by women with mighty arm muscles:
… Read the rest “Ancient women had strong arms, say bone studies.”In the early stages of farming more than 7,000 years ago, women engaged
Nature dives into some pretty weird sex-based results in pharmacological studies of ketamine:
… Read the rest “Ketamine fights depression in mice – when a *male researcher* administers it.”The findings, presented on 14 November at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) meeting in
Nature reports on a new class of germ-fighting drugs that are light-sensitive, so they become active when the lights go on:
… Read the rest “Antibiotic switches on with the lights.”A drug that can be easily turned on and off could provide targeted
At the end of the 17th century, this was some weird and wild stuff – a fruit that in the Americas, they call “banana” (if I’m reading the Dutch text… Read the rest “Science Art: De XII Afbeelding (Banana) by Maria Sibylla Merian”
Pringle’s dedication is absolutely admirable.
From his description:
… Read the rest “Thanksgiving Theremin: Handel’s “As When the Dove,” by Peter Pringle”There is a lot of very fast fingering and some extended baroque trills in this piece which are hard to see because
We’ve had Eyck on here before, but not like this:
Or at least, no original. I’ve got a bass line and a smattering of lyrics, but still haven’t replaced the laptop, so recording has been impossible. So it goes.
There will, however,… Read the rest “No song today.”
The Atlantic has a great piece on the E.T.-hunting radio telescope that China just built (it’s twice the size of Arecibo) with a little input from China’s greatest living science… Read the rest “China’s ready to make first contact with aliens.”
Indiana University psychology researchers have definitely proved, after 10 years of study, that a particular kind of video game, as part of a brief brain-training regimen, can keep age-related… Read the rest ““Brain training” video game beats dementia in trials.”
This is a sidelong look at the king of planets from NASA’s Image of the Day gallery.
The NASA folks say:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Jupiter: A New Point of View, by Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran”This striking Jovian vista was created by citizen scientists
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