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 […]
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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 […]
Stem cell therapy puts multiple sclerosis in remission.
Healthline spells out the basics of rebooting an immune system from scratch – which means a pretty dramatic step forward in medicine: Studying 24 study […]
A whole new kind of antibiotic
Nature celebrates the discovery of a dirty new weapon in the war against antibiotic-resistant pathogens: An antibiotic with the ability to vanquish drug-resistant pathogens has […]
Cold weather really does help cold germs spread.
Science Daily finds the truth behind the old wives’ tale, that common cold viruses flourish in conditions cooler than body temperature – like a nose […]
Last tour of Mercury – wanna name a crater?
New Scientist watches the Messenger probe prepare to take a final spin around the hottest planet – with one last firing of its engines: Engineers […]
A rat bustier or a rat camisole for a little rat naughtiness.
LiveScience examines how and why rats are aroused by tiny vests: In an unusual study, researchers allowed virgin male rats to have sex with females […]