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One supernova in four different places

6 March 2015 grant 0

Popular Science takes a wide-eyed look at gravitational lensing, the phenomenon responsible for splitting this supernova into four different images in the night sky:

But in between this

… Read the rest “One supernova in four different places”

Acid casualties aren’t (almost ever).

5 March 2015 grant 0

Nature reviews a broad survey of research – two studies that conclude psychedelic drug use can’t be linked to psychosis:

In the first study, clinical psychologists Pål-Ørjan

… Read the rest “Acid casualties aren’t (almost ever).”

Methane on Mars

4 March 2015 grant 0

IFLScience smells more traces of life on Mars, by curiously sniffing spikes of Red Planet methane:

Since it landed on the Red Planet, NASA’s Curiosity rover has been exploring the Gale crater

… Read the rest “Methane on Mars”

One drink makes you cuter. (Not the people around you, but the person doing the drinking.)

3 March 2015 grant 0

Live Science grants us deep insight into the biochemistry of the bar pickup, revealing that prospective partners look a whole lot better after they’ve had one drink than they do after… Read the rest “One drink makes you cuter. (Not the people around you, but the person doing the drinking.)”

Programmable solids. Any shape you like.

2 March 2015 grant 0

Science magazine is shaping up for a flexible future, with a whole new kind of 3D LCD screen:

The moving images we see on a display are created by controlling the net orientation of the molecules,

… Read the rest “Programmable solids. Any shape you like.”

Science Art: Vespertilio Formosus

1 March 2015 grant 0

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A mouse-eared bat, from Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, as found on the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

It falls between a rather pleasant-looking bush… Read the rest “Science Art: Vespertilio Formosus”

Unknown Pleasures: The story behind the cover.

28 February 2015 grant 0

Scientific American digs into one of the most recognizable, most influential records (and cover images) – the astronomical story behind Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures… Read the rest “Unknown Pleasures: The story behind the cover.”

Full body transplants.

26 February 2015 grant 0

New Scientist seems to be going a little around the bend with transplants this week (witness hand enthusiasm), especially when it comes to the prospect of putting your head on an all-new … Read the rest “Full body transplants.”

Love (hormone) against alcoholism.

25 February 2015 grant 0

L.A. Times examines the biochemical power that love – or at least the “love hormone” oxytocin – has to neutralize alcohol and beat alcoholism:

…[N]ew

… Read the rest “Love (hormone) against alcoholism.”

SONG: White coffee and omelets.

24 February 2015 grant 0

SONG: “White Coffee and Omelets.”

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on “Cut Sugary Drinks; Add Coffee, Eggs“, Laboratory Equipment, 20 February 2015,as used in… Read the rest “SONG: White coffee and omelets.”

Science Art: B.T. Babbit’s Low Pressure Canal Boat Steam Enterprise, 1876

22 February 2015 grant 0

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A big, useful boat, from Industrial America: Manufacturers and Inventors of the United States, 1876.

[via New York Public Library Digital Collections]

Breakfast is championed (at last)

21 February 2015 grant 0

Laboratory Equipment preaches the (newly embraced) health benefits of a cholesterol-laden, high-caffeine breakfast, championing the joys of coffee and eggs, hold the sugar, not the… Read the rest “Breakfast is championed (at last)”

Stronger than spider silk

20 February 2015 grant 2

Washington Post reveals the natural substance that beats spider silk for toughness, and diamonds for hardness – and it’s limpet teeth:

In a study set to come out this month

… Read the rest “Stronger than spider silk”

Meet the Ruby Seadragon

18 February 2015 grant 0

Science Daily introduces us to a brand new sea creature, bright red and fantastically delicate, dubbed the ruby seadragon:

Using DNA and anatomical research tools, Scripps graduate student

… Read the rest “Meet the Ruby Seadragon”

The DNA hard drive.

17 February 2015 grant 0

New Scientist marvels at the ability of DNA to store information, with a realization that glassed-in genes could safely store information for millennia:

Just 1 gram of DNA is theoretically

… Read the rest “The DNA hard drive.”

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