Insects in tiny space suits. Real ones. In a vacuum.
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, but the […]
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Genghis Khan ain’t the only big daddy.
Nature checks our DNA and finds that, yes, a lot of us are related to the Mongolian conqueror… but Genghis Khan ain’t the only big […]
Make science beautiful, researchers.
That, according to Nature, is the call issued by ecologist Stephen Heard, who wants researchers to keep their prose whimsical, funny, elegant and moving: In […]
Birth control hormones linked to brain tumors
Eurekalert releases results of a study that’s found hormonal birth control increases risk of brain tumors: Taking a hormonal contraceptive for at least five years […]
Science Art: D ß ist der schneck auß dem grund…, by Albrecht Duerer, from Four Books on Measurement (Underweysung der Messung mit dem Zirckel und Richtscheyt)
Click to embiggen The full title of this appears to be: “D ß ist der schneck auß dem grund auf gezogen/mit allen notwendigen linien drauß […]
SONG: Sleeping
SONG: “Sleeping.” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Naps Help Infants Form Memories“, Laboratory Equipment, 14 January 2015, as used in the post “Naps make memories […]
There’s gold in them thar sewers….
It just ain’t sanitary. Science magazine plumbs the depths of the million-dollar treasure hiding at the municipal waste treatment plant: Metals have long been known […]
We found Beagle 2 on Mars.
Science Daily explains how an orbital camera solved a decade-old Martian mystery: Images taken by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO, […]
Naps make memories (in infants).
Probably us too, but Laboratory Equipment is only looking at the way babies need naps to remember new things: In a study, which is the […]
Science Art: Fig. 10 (Theil eines Stockes von Carchesium polypinum mit zwei Individuen), by Carl Gegenbaur,1870
This is a little critter known as Carchesium polypinum, less formally a “stalked ciliate,” an organism that forms colonies that look like teensy tinesy trees, […]
Stone Age man not more advanced than Neanderthals.
PhysOrg repeats a theme I’ve heard a lot lately – finding yet more evidence that Homo sapiens wasn’t really a step forward for Homo neanderthalensis: […]
Stone tools, stone lessons, stone words
Nature reports on new clues that we learned to talk by learning to cut meat: Here we present an experiment investigating the efficacy of transmission […]
They’ve grown muscle in the lab… and made it twitch.
Science Daily reports on artificial muscle that works… meaning, it could actually do work: The study was led by Nenad Bursac, associate professor of biomedical […]
SONG: “Particles of Attraction” (penitential AJ Allulli cover)
SONG: “Particles of Attraction” (penitential cover) (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This is a cover making up for a late […]
Science Art: Space Shuttle, concept art from NASA’s Glenn Research Center.
A vision of futures past from NASA’s Glenn Research Center Collection, part of the Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System. This was what they planned […]