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Newer, easier way to capture carbon from the atmosphere

9 January 2017 grant 0

Science Daily reveals a simpler, cheaper way to get excess carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere – by converting it to carbon crystals:

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s

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Science Art: Mammiferes, Pl. 3, from Dictionnaire universel d’histoire naturelle, 1849

8 January 2017 grant 0

from : http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19537949#page/47/mode/1up
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Behold, the seat of consciousness and feeling.

Maybe not the source, but the seat.

From Charles Dessalines D’Orbigny’s Universal Dictionary of Natural… Read the rest “Science Art: Mammiferes, Pl. 3, from Dictionnaire universel d’histoire naturelle, 1849”

Scientists start identifying the brains taken by Nazi researchers.

6 January 2017 grant 0

Science magazine reports on a new mission for German scientists, who are working to identify the human remains stored for study by Nazi euthanasia centers:

During World War II, as part of

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Mysterious new go champion revealed to be an AI.

5 January 2017 grant 0

Nature reports on the latest surprise to come out of the DeepMind project, who just revealed one of their programs as the anonymous master who’s been defeating all comers in online… Read the rest “Mysterious new go champion revealed to be an AI.”

You can now 3D-print a sonic tractor beam.

3 January 2017 grant 0

Science Daily brings us one step closer to a sci-fi tomorrow with researchers publishing open-source directions on making a tractor beam at home:

Last year Asier Marzo, then a doctoral

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Science Art: Rift in Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf, by NASA/John Sonntag

2 January 2017 grant 0

Rift in Antarctica's Larsen C Ice Shelf,  Credit: NASA/John SonntagClick to embiggen

Big valley in the Antarctic ice. A bonus image for the New Year, from NASA’s Image Gallery, photographed a couple weeks before Thanksgiving 2016:

Ice shelves are

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Science Art: Mt. Balfour, Antarctica, by NASA/Joe MacGregor

2 January 2017 grant 0

NASA/Joe MacGregorClick to embiggen

This photo is part of NASA’s IceBridge mission, an airborne survey of polar ice, which completed an eighth consecutive Antarctic deployment on Nov. 18 of this year.… Read the rest “Science Art: Mt. Balfour, Antarctica, by NASA/Joe MacGregor”

Bats have more to say than you think.

30 December 2016 grant 0

Nature delves into the surprising intricacies of bat language:

Bats are noisy creatures, especially in their crowded caves, where they make calls to their neighbours. “If you go into a

… Read the rest “Bats have more to say than you think.”

10-4, bot buddy. Robot truckers join the convoy….

28 December 2016 grant 0

Popular Science brings a 1970s science-fiction dream one step closer to reality with news that Uber Freight is ready to put robot truckers on the highway:

Uber, the technology company (which,

… Read the rest “10-4, bot buddy. Robot truckers join the convoy….”

Science Art: Picea excelsa, Walter Mueller, 1886.

26 December 2016 grant 0

fron http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/5360#/summary
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A spruce tree, for the second day of Christmas.

From Dr. Prof. Thomé’s Flora von Deutschland, Oesterreich und der Schweiz, in Wort und Bild, fuer Schule und Haus… Read the rest “Science Art: Picea excelsa, Walter Mueller, 1886.”

SONG: “Tiny Reindeer”

24 December 2016 grant 0

SONG: “Tiny Reindeer”.

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Reindeer are shrinking, because of warmer arctic temperatures ,” Science, 11 Dec 2016, as used in the post “Reindeer… Read the rest “SONG: “Tiny Reindeer””

World’s largest hedge fund set to replace management with supercomputer.

23 December 2016 grant 0

The Guardian reports on a rational, logical approach to making the big bucks… by evaluating trades (and making hiring and firing decisions) using a custom-built computer rather… Read the rest “World’s largest hedge fund set to replace management with supercomputer.”

“The Cocktail Party Effect” noise filter is revealed at last.

21 December 2016 grant 0

BBC unveils how exactly our brains are able to turn the garbled sounds of a crowded room into understandable speech:

A team measured people’s brain activity as the words of a previously

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Female doctors’ patients live longer.

20 December 2016 grant 0

Heard this odd bit of medical science on Marketplace this morning. A new study of 1.5 million patients found that those treated by doctors who were women have a 5-percent better chance of … Read the rest “Female doctors’ patients live longer.”

SONG: “Your Molecular Structure (penitential cover)”

19 December 2016 grant 0

SONG: “Your Molecular Structure (penitential cover)”.

ARTIST: grant (originally by Mose Allison).

SOURCE: This song doesn’t have a scientific source; it’s… Read the rest “SONG: “Your Molecular Structure (penitential cover)””

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