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.)”
Science magazine is shaping up for a flexible future, with a whole new kind of 3D LCD screen:
… Read the rest “Programmable solids. Any shape you like.”The moving images we see on a display are created by controlling the net orientation of the molecules,
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”
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.”
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.”
L.A. Times examines the biochemical power that love – or at least the “love hormone” oxytocin – has to neutralize alcohol and beat alcoholism:
… Read the rest “Love (hormone) against alcoholism.”…[N]ew
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.”
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)”
Washington Post reveals the natural substance that beats spider silk for toughness, and diamonds for hardness – and it’s limpet teeth:
… Read the rest “Stronger than spider silk”In a study set to come out this month
Science Daily introduces us to a brand new sea creature, bright red and fantastically delicate, dubbed the ruby seadragon:
… Read the rest “Meet the Ruby Seadragon”Using DNA and anatomical research tools, Scripps graduate student
New Scientist marvels at the ability of DNA to store information, with a realization that glassed-in genes could safely store information for millennia:
… Read the rest “The DNA hard drive.”Just 1 gram of DNA is theoretically
They’re not exactly pretty yet, but New Scientist has the skinny on a real James Bond-style super-gadget, telescopic contact lenses:
… Read the rest “Telescopic contact lenses”Developed by a team led by Eric Tremblay at the
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.”
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.”
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