Programmable solids. Any shape you like.
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 […]
Articles by grant
Science Art: Vespertilio Formosus
Click to embiggen A mouse-eared bat, from Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, as found on the Biodiversity Heritage Library. It falls between a […]
Unknown Pleasures: The story behind the cover.
Scientific American digs into one of the most recognizable, most influential records (and cover images) – the astronomical story behind Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures album […]
Full body transplants.
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 […]
Love (hormone) against alcoholism.
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 […]
SONG: White coffee and omelets.
SONG: “White Coffee and Omelets.” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Cut Sugary Drinks; Add Coffee, Eggs“, Laboratory Equipment, 20 February 2015,as used in the post […]
Science Art: B.T. Babbit’s Low Pressure Canal Boat Steam Enterprise, 1876
Click to embiggen 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)
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 […]
Stronger than spider silk
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 […]
Meet the Ruby Seadragon
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, […]
The DNA hard drive.
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 […]
Telescopic contact lenses
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 […]
Science Art: Variation of the Electron Density with Altitude in the Venusian Ionosphere, 1975.
A look at the solar wind – charged particles whipping off our nearest star – and what they do to the second planet out, Venus. […]
Again, airships. With a little difference.
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 […]
A social network for sharing your DNA. Online, I mean.
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 […]