Sugar (especially the kind in fruit juice) is replacing salt as blood pressure enemy No. 1.
MedPage Today is among the sources spreading the determination (with no mincing of words) that sugar is just as bad as salt – if not […]
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Science Art: Fig 114 – July normal sea-level pressure, Southern Hemisphere.
Click to embiggen Making the invisible visible – the air over the South Pole, Australia, Tierra del Fuego, Cape Town and beyond. From General Meteorology […]
Why menthol makes it harder to quit.
New Scientist reveals how menthol – something originally added to cigarettes to soothe smokers’ throats – actually makes cigarettes more ‘cigarette-y’: People who smoke menthol […]
Electric eels are puppet masters
New Scientist pulls back the curtain on how electric eels “remote control” their prey, freezing them right next to their hungry mouths: The experiments that […]
Graffiti older than Neanderthals
Nature looks over some triangles – not unlike capital letter As – etched into a shell on Java and determines they were carved by Homo […]
Considering Orion.
Scientific American takes a moment, after all the hubbub last week, to think over what the success of the Orion launch means for NASA and […]
Dancing to the beat makes fiddler crab sexual… failures.
New Scientist turns our human expectations upside down once in the world of fiddler crabs. They seem musical (thus the name, after all), and they […]
Science Art: Age of Oceanic Crust, NOAA, modified by Rapture2018.
This is how the the gooey inside becomes the crusty outside… oozing up from rifts.
New materials are really cool. Like, make-your-own-unplugged-AC cool.
The Economist is following Stanford researchers who are (literally) making some really cool stuff: Fully 15% of the electricity used by buildings in the United […]
Bullet-proof fabric and cheap hydrogen fuel… and it comes from carbon.
Nature celebrates more wonders – potential ones, from flexible armor to affordable fuel cells – that we can make from graphene: Protons’ ability to travel […]
Worried? Forgetful? Is there mold in your walls?
Science News breaks some scary news to the fungus-phobic and those of us living in old buildings or moist climates. Researchers at CUNY have discovered […]
Talk to a friend in space. Or friends of a friend in space.
Business Insider, among other sources, has a neat piece on an even neater app that lets you talk to someone on the ISS: talian astronaut […]
Science Art: Fig 2: Lateral views of the skull and lower jaw… (etc.)
Click to embiggen My son and I just spent the afternoon watching the charming Your Inner Fish series (his idea, not mine), and learned all […]
Thanksgiving Theremin: Human Theremin, by Lucy Sansom.
If you’ve got a sister, why not turn her into a musical instrument? Human Theremin from Lucy Sansom on Vimeo.
Thanksgiving Theremin: The Theremin Orchestra, by Merche Blasco (with Sonia Megías and Thessia Machado)
This is more about treated vocals than theremin… and it’s not exactly got a groove. But still, there’s something DUDE about it. The Theremin Orchestra […]