Science Daily looks closely at an affordable, efficient, non-toxic battery that runs your home smoothly from intermittent power sources:
… Read the rest “We’ve got a battery for your home. Made from organic dye and food additives.”The mismatch between the availability of intermittent
New Scientist reveals how the first Americans made their way into Alaska and down… by eating salmon along the way:
… Read the rest “Salmon snacks sent Stone Age settlers south.”The bones were discovered in a hearth inside a house at the Upward
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… Read the rest “SONG: One (is the Loneliest Number) (penitential cover)”
To Scale: The Solar System from Wylie Overstreet on Vimeo.
I like the desert in Nevada already because of the sense of perspective – such wide, flat spaces (wider and flatter even than… Read the rest “Science Art: To Scale: The Solar System by Wylie Overstreet.”
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, cannabidiol and other compounds… Read the rest “This yeast makes cannabinoids, no pot plants needed.”
PLOS Biology wants us to know that in a cost/benefit analysis, love comes out ahead:
… Read the rest “Love and Fitness”A new study published in PLOS Biology by Malika Ihle, Bart Kempenaers, and Wolfgang Forstmeier attempts
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 of a problem any more – not in the … Read the rest “American bees get a (small) break.”
Popular Science reveals a new way to check if a little thing really is what it’s labeled as:
… Read the rest “3D barcodes ensure pills (or microchips) are genuine.”Researchers from the University of Bradford and Sofmat, an anti-fraud technology company,
This is a jellyfish drawn by Philip Henry Gosse, a naturalist and Creationist (!) who gave us the word “aquarium” as a place to see marine creatures. Before… Read the rest “Science Art: Aequorea Forbesiana by Philip Henry Gosse.”
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 halfway isn’t there:
… Read the rest “A laser levitating glowing nanodiamonds in a vacuum.”The research team is led by Nick Vamivakas
Science Daily hails a new study that finds even in an iceless, seal-less Arctic, the polar bear might be able to survive:
… Read the rest “Polar bears might make it after all.”As climate change accelerates ice melt in the Arctic, polar bears
The Guardian bulks up over scientific enthusiasm for a long-buried stone structure:
… Read the rest “New Stonehenge discovery = “Archaeology on steroids.””Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a massive stone monument buried under a thick, grassy
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From John P. Ralston’s “The Bohr Atom of Glueballs,” an article describing how to model an atom using rope and glue. Sort of.
Ralston does say it’s… Read the rest “Science Art: A tightly wrapped trefoil knot, identified as the second member of the glueball spectrum, 2003.”
Not a hole that worms live in, but the kind that spaceships use to bounce around the galaxy. Science Daily explains how Spanish scientists have created a wormhole in the lab:
… Read the rest “Wormhole blueprints”Scientists in
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