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Telescopic contact lenses

16 February 2015 grant 0

They’re not exactly pretty yet, but New Scientist has the skinny on a real James Bond-style super-gadget, telescopic contact lenses:

Developed by a team led by Eric Tremblay at the

… Read the rest “Telescopic contact lenses”

Science Art: Variation of the Electron Density with Altitude in the Venusian Ionosphere, 1975.

15 February 2015 grant 0

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A look at the solar wind – charged particles whipping off our nearest star – and what they do to the second planet out, Venus.

From a NASA technical document, a translation of … Read the rest “Science Art: Variation of the Electron Density with Altitude in the Venusian Ionosphere, 1975.”

Again, airships. With a little difference.

12 February 2015 grant 0

CityMetric takes a look at why the zeppelins went down in the end… and how one new system might bring them back
Today, the Van Wagner group, an airship organisation, estimates that
… Read the rest “Again, airships. With a little difference.”

A social network for sharing your DNA. Online, I mean.

11 February 2015 grant 0

Fusion has the details on the growing community of DNA uploaders:

Members of openSNP upload their genes along with things like their sex, age, eye color, location, Fitbit data and medical

… Read the rest “A social network for sharing your DNA. Online, I mean.”

One dad, two moms… on the cellular level. Now, legal. Almost.

10 February 2015 grant 0

Nature reports on a British legal ruling that’s a world-first, a step toward allowing medical scientists to create “three-parent” embryos:

This technique, known

… Read the rest “One dad, two moms… on the cellular level. Now, legal. Almost.”

The age of the elephant rats.

9 February 2015 grant 0

Live Science describes a new sort of prehistoric monster – a bull-sized rodent with elephant-like tusks:

An amateur paleontologist first unearthed the skull of an extinct rodent,

… Read the rest “The age of the elephant rats.”

Science Art: Plate 3. Compare this medical high frequency apparatus…

8 February 2015 grant 0

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A bygone medical device, as preserved on the Public Domain Review’s selections from High Frequency Electric Currents in Medicine and Dentistry by Samuel Howard Monell, a 1910 treatise… Read the rest “Science Art: Plate 3. Compare this medical high frequency apparatus…”

Faces of the sons of the Khans, in living color

7 February 2015 grant 0

CNTV reports on the discovery of Yuan Dynasty artwork – a trove of murals from the time when the Khans ruled:

The tomb was discovered last year when a heavy downpour washed away the top

… Read the rest “Faces of the sons of the Khans, in living color”

Mystery stone might have unknown Anglo-Saxon writing.

6 February 2015 grant 0

Or, Live Science kinda sorta points out, it might not. But the thing sold as a “garden ornament” is certainly ancient and mysterious:

The hefty carving was up for sale as a garden

… Read the rest “Mystery stone might have unknown Anglo-Saxon writing.”

Driverless cars in less than a decade

4 February 2015 grant 0

That’s what Nature is expecting to see, in its overview of the world of autonomous vehicles:

This summer, people will cruise through the streets of Greenwich, UK, in electric shuttles

… Read the rest “Driverless cars in less than a decade”

NASA preps for life-hunting mission to Europa

3 February 2015 grant 0

Discovery News gets all excited by NASA-JPL’s announcement that they’re budgeting for a robotic mission to seek life on Jupiter’s moon Europa:

In response to this

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Don’t despise it. Decriminalize it. (Or, you know, don’t… but at least know the facts.)

2 February 2015 grant 0

Popular Science looks at the hard facts behind decriminalization and legalization (two different things!) of marijuana – and what science says happens when cannabis consumption… Read the rest “Don’t despise it. Decriminalize it. (Or, you know, don’t… but at least know the facts.)”

Science Art: Uterus En Etat De Gestation by Jacques Marie Cyprien Victor Coste

1 February 2015 grant 0

From Histoire générale et particulière du développement des corps organisés by Jacques Marie Cyprien Victor Coste
Click to embiggen

This one is definitely worth clicking to embiggen. It’s from the very detailed, very large Histoire générale et particulière du développement des corps organisés… Read the rest “Science Art: Uterus En Etat De Gestation by Jacques Marie Cyprien Victor Coste”

Recreating trepanation: how they poked holes in people’s heads (to heal them).

30 January 2015 grant 0

Siberian Times, the paper of record for the taiga, reports on the first successful reconstruction of ancient brain surgery:

Neurosurgeons have been working with anthropologists and

… Read the rest “Recreating trepanation: how they poked holes in people’s heads (to heal them).”

Insects in tiny space suits. Real ones. In a vacuum.

29 January 2015 grant 0

Can’t beat NBC’s headline for this: Insects Wear Tiny Spacesuits, for Science:

Scanning electron microscopes (SEM) provide incredibly detailed images of biological specimens,

… Read the rest “Insects in tiny space suits. Real ones. In a vacuum.”

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