SONG: Levitating Diamonds (Tiny Impossible Things)
SONG: “Levitating Diamonds (Tiny Impossible Things)”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Based on “Lasers used to levitate glowing nanodiamonds in a vacuum”, Science Daily, 7 Sep 2015, as […]
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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 […]
Polar bears might make it after all.
Science Daily hails a new study that finds even in an iceless, seal-less Arctic, the polar bear might be able to survive: As climate change […]
New Stonehenge discovery = “Archaeology on steroids.”
The Guardian bulks up over scientific enthusiasm for a long-buried stone structure: Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a massive stone monument buried under a […]
Science Art: A tightly wrapped trefoil knot, identified as the second member of the glueball spectrum, 2003.
Click to embiggen From John P. Ralston’s “The Bohr Atom of Glueballs,” an article describing how to model an atom using rope and glue. Sort […]
Wormhole blueprints
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 […]
The good news: There are lots more trees than we thought. The bad news: Well….
Washington Post spells out the bad news. There are more trees than we thought, but that means there are a *whole lot* less than there […]