Nature reveals how spiders can use webbing to sail through the air… and then land on water and keep on sailing:
… Read the rest “Sorry, arachnophobes. Spiders can go *everywhere*.”Morito Hayashi, a spider researcher at the Natural History Museum in
Now, after that brief, regrettable interruption in service, a tribute to the computer.
This illustration is from The Elements of Natural Philosophy; Or, An Introduction… Read the rest “Science Art: Scheutz mechanical calculator (Zeichnung der Difference Engine No.1 aus dem Jahr 1853), 1867.”
This is a waterwheel, from a book written by architect and engineer Georg Andreas Boeckler, under the title Theatrum machinarum novum : exhibens opera molaria et aquatica constructum … Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. XLIII. Hydromylos, sive aquaria mola, 1662.”
PeerJ has a study revealing how one the planet’s most invasive species has wormed its way into – of course – Florida:
… Read the rest “Land planarians are invading the U.S.!”The land planarian Platydemus manokwari de Beauchamp,
So say Stanford University neurologists, who have actually seen memories under a microscope – and watched them vanish:
… Read the rest “Memories are physical: they last as long as the nerve-cell connections that store them.”Now Mark Schnitzer, an associate professor of biology and
I couldn’t really improve on New Scientist‘s headline there. This device shines a laser through an earlobe or wrist and detects malaria parasites through light absorption… Read the rest “Laser “tricorder” diagnoses malaria through the skin.”
Looks like I’ll be owing a song… and a penitential cover for my tardiness.
Stay tuned.
Auto Guide (and a few other places) have been looking at… well, is the step before a driverless car or the step beyond? Anyway, it’s a thing where Jaguar/Land Rover is using NASA… Read the rest “The sports car that reads your mind.”
These are paper sculptures of birds’ wings – four specific categories of birds’ wings. As explained by their creator:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Paper Wings, by Nicole Frost.”This is my paper sculpture of
The Guardian has more on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s official extinction verdict:
… Read the rest “We don’t have to protect the Eastern Cougar any more. There aren’t any left.”The agency said on Tuesday the four-year review, which included information from 21 states
Popular Archaeology thrills us with really, really old scares… digging up (literally!) evidence of Classical Greek zombie stories:
… Read the rest “Zombies of the ancient world”As one case in point, [University of Pittsburgh
PhysOrg turns the “brutal caveman” stereotype on its head, with a new look at our earliest ancestors as sensitive folks who got a leg up on the competition because we were vulnerable… Read the rest “The Vulnerable Ape theory of human origins.”
The ESA has spent an eventful weekend now that the Rosetta probe has woken up after a long sleep on a comet:
… Read the rest “Good morning, Philae. How’s that comet looking 200 days later?”Hidden by shadows, Philae shut down on 15 November 2014 at 00:36 GMT after completing
This seems to be a minute beetle, as pictured in Objects for the microscope, being a popular description of the most instructive and beautiful subjects for exhibition… Read the rest “Science Art: Beetle, magnified 26 diameters, 1871.”
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