Science Art: Firing in the Fog, 1995
In which NASA tests a Space Shuttle engine in Mississippi, on a cool and humid day.
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Obesity contra dementia. (How the extra pounds protect your brain.)
Popular Science plunges into a study in The Lancet examining the possible neurological benefit of being obese:
… Read the rest “Obesity contra dementia. (How the extra pounds protect your brain.)”The team of British researchers looked at records of almost two million patients
Humor boosts the bottom line. (Call it “funny business.”)
Scientific American examines what’s so wise about cracking up at meetings:
… Read the rest “Humor boosts the bottom line. (Call it “funny business.”)”…Lehmann-Willenbrock and Allen explored whether humor in the workplace might also help a corporation
Scientists: The moon was formed when Earth smacked her twin sister.
Nature reports on a new way of looking at lunar formation that almost reads like a myth. The moon came to be when Earth collided with a near-identical sister planet:
… Read the rest “Scientists: The moon was formed when Earth smacked her twin sister.”The ‘giant impact’ hypothesis,
The ethics of altering your children’s brains.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience is asking the tough questions about what… and when… we should be doing to kids’ brains with electromagnetism:
… Read the rest “The ethics of altering your children’s brains.”As the intervention
Drones for archaeology
PhysOrg has more on using drones… not just to find priceless historical sites, but to protect them from looters:
… Read the rest “Drones for archaeology”With aerial photographs taken by a homemade drone, researchers are
Science Art: Detail from Plate LXVIII from British oology, c. 1835
That’s Anthus aquaticus and Anthus pratensis… the rock lark up top, and the tit lark at the bottom. Stop laughing, you in the back.
There are more lark eggs where these came from… Read the rest “Science Art: Detail from Plate LXVIII from British oology, c. 1835”
Robot feet that don’t need batteries.
Nature studies the beauty of mechanical advantage… in exoskeleton boots that do what feet do just a little bit better, faster, stronger:
… Read the rest “Robot feet that don’t need batteries.”People walking in the boots expend 7% less
Go, little Mars drone! Fly! FLY!
The Atlantic has a heartwarming story about the little flying robot that could (if only we’d let it)… a plucky little space-drone named Morpheus:
… Read the rest “Go, little Mars drone! Fly! FLY!”While it may never fly in space
A new hybrid super-termite… made in Florida.
PopSci reports on the PLOS One study on what happens when two invasive exotic species combine forces:
… Read the rest “A new hybrid super-termite… made in Florida.”The two termite species, which originated in separate areas of Asia, spread across
Has your head ever exploded? (Or *sounded* like it?)
Science Daily peeks into the weird world of Exploding Head Syndrome, a surprisingly common condition in which young people are suddenly awoken by an ear-splitting boom:
… Read the rest “Has your head ever exploded? (Or *sounded* like it?)”Brian Sharpless,
Science Art: Plate XII. An engine of great service to bore elms or other trees to make pipes to conveigh water, and for other uses, 1701
An illustration from New and rare inventions of water-works; shewing the easiest ways to raise water higher than the spring. By which invention, the perpetual motion … Read the rest “Science Art: Plate XII. An engine of great service to bore elms or other trees to make pipes to conveigh water, and for other uses, 1701”
So, one of the most common household chemicals is killing you. Surprise!
Nature analyzes the new World Health Organization (WHO) determination that Roundup weedkiller causes cancer:
… Read the rest “So, one of the most common household chemicals is killing you. Surprise!”The cancer-research arm of the World Health Organization last week announced
Here’s a hydrogen-fueled train.
Science Alert reports on a new train in China – not a design, an actual vehicle – that runs on hydrogen and leaves water for exhaust:
… Read the rest “Here’s a hydrogen-fueled train.”Manufactured by the Sifang Company, which
SONG: The Waves Around the Women
SONG: “The Waves Around the Women.”
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Scientists have discovered nature’s newest strongest material“, Washington Post, 18… Read the rest “SONG: The Waves Around the Women”