Antarctica has melted so much, it’s changing Earth’s gravitational profile.
Daily Beast has more on how 204 billion tons of melting glaciers have changed the way our planet’s gravity works: Between 2009 and 2012, the […]
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Science Art: A space-ship might look like this, John W. Wood, 1968.
Click to embiggen An image from Rockets and Satellites Work Like This, as found on the marvelous Dreams of Space blog. It’s a children’s book […]
New flying car has landed.
You probably know about the Moller SkyCar and you might have heard of the Terrafugia “roadable plane.” Well, now, The Guardian is reporting on a […]
Teenager’s bright idea: flashlight fueled by body heat.
The Gajitz blog has the scoop on the kid who invented a battery-free flashlight that runs on body heat: Ann Makosinski, a 15 year old […]
Is a hard rain gonna fall… on scientists who’re slipping Dylan lyrics into their articles?
Washington Post reveals a secret scientific conspiracy to sneak as many Bob Dylan lyrics into publications as possible: While writing an article about intestinal gasses […]
Clean suit filters pollution out of the air. (And hooks you up to the internet.)
Dezeen, the design magazine, gives the specs on a high-tech suit that cleans the air around the wearer: Designers Borre Akkersdijk and Eva de Laat […]
Science Art: Fig. 2 from “Drawings, views and engine of the Levasseur transatlantic plane” in NACA Aircraft Circular #50, Levasseur 8 Transatlantic Airplane, 1927.
Click to embiggen This is from a government report – from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, a precursor to NASA – on L’Oiseau Blanc, […]
New poison dart frog discovered. Tiny. Cute. Poisonous. But tiny. And cute.
National Geographic reveals the newest Panamanian sensation to enter the world of science: A new species of poison dart frog so teeny it can fit […]
How all the Stone Age people learned the same tricks at the same time.
Nature examines – and possibly answers – a long-standing archaeological puzzle. How did a bunch of unrelated paleolithic people in different parts of the world […]
SONG: Could you tell me your name?
SONG: “Could You Tell Me Your Name?” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on“Anxiety and sleeping pills ‘linked to dementia’”, BBC News, 9 September 2014, as used […]
MAVEN’s at Mars.
The skies over the Red Planet, as The New York Times and others are reporting, are getting downright crowded with satellites from Earth. The latest […]
Science Art: Sarcoptes scabiei, from Brockhaus’ Konversations-Lexikon, 1892.
Click to embiggen They itch. They dig in and they itch. These are the mites that cause scabies, the tiny tunnelers, burrowing into the skin […]
India’s Mars probe ready to orbit
Nature reports on India’s preparations for their first interplanetary exploration: Mangalyaan, known formally as the Mars Orbiter Mission, or MOM, was launched by the Indian […]
Thanks for the rides, former Soviets – Boeing and SpaceX are taking it from here.
NASA has formally announced that two private companies will be taking our astronauts to the International Space Station: The CST-100 and Dragon version 2 have […]
Schizophrenia: many diseases in one
Daily Beast looks over Washington University research that’s found that the singular diagnosis of schizophrenia is actually a compound disease, caused by eight different genetic […]