If you never thought cosmic loneliness was a computing problem, think again. In Popular Mechanics, SETI leader Seth Shostak says Moore’s Law means we’ll find aliens in the… Read the rest “Faster computers will find aliens.”
SONG: “Starter Home.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Home Tweet Home: High-Tech Solutions for … Read the rest “SONG: “Starter Home””
This is an old photograph taken through the largest refracting telescope (no mirrors, just a really big lens) in the world, the Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin.
Edwin … Read the rest “Science Art: Nebulae in the Pleiades, by the Yerkes Observatory”
Science Daily is rubbing their hands (and stomping their feet) over new breakthroughs in harnessing your everyday movements to power up your batteries:
… Read the rest “Take a walk to charge your phone.”…[Georgia Institute of
Nature reveals proof that elephants recognize individual humans – including the languages used who did them wrong:
… Read the rest “Elephants really never forget… their enemies’ words.”Biologists Karen McComb and Graeme Shannon at the University
National Geographic is hosting a live chat tomorrow with some of the folks on the forefront of space exploration:
… Read the rest “Chat with the folks who are building our future in space….”On March 20 at 2:30 p.m. ET, join us for a live video conversation with space
Nature tries to see what was behind the comet that killed the dinosaurs – and other mass extinctions that seem to happen every 35 million years. One guess: Our solar system passes through… Read the rest “Darker than Nemesis: Was it dark matter that killed the dinosaurs?”
The New York Times looks at the first new research into LSD therapy in four decades:
… Read the rest “LSD is back in the lab… helping people face death.”“I’d never taken the drug before, so I was feeling — well, I think the proper word for it, in English, is dread,”
It could be the new collection of shower curtains and matching towels at Target. But no – pleasant though they may be to look at, these shapes make us feel bad.
Found on Wikimedia Commons.
The Verge is rolling out the red carpet to welcome back the clap:
… Read the rest “Gonorrhea is coming back.”…[P]enicillin and various tetracyclines have all stopped working against the most prevalent strains. This means
Science Daily has promising research from Notre Dame in the fight against antibiotic-resistant germs – a new class of chemicals that should kill bacteria like MRSA, the “super… Read the rest “New class of antibiotics may kill MRSA.”
The New York Times investigates the strange history of American antibiotics – and how the medicine hailed as a “superdrug” in the 1940s might have made us an overweight… Read the rest “Are antibiotics making us obese?”
Science Daily says “aerosols produced by human activities” – that is, soot and exhaust fumes and all that great air pollution – definitely has an effect on the… Read the rest “Our air pollution *weakens* hurricanes (but makes them wetter).”
The New York Times looks inside the house of tomorrow, which is staying in touch with its owner via Twitter:
… Read the rest “This home really speaks to me. Over the internet…”So it is with Tom Coates’s San Francisco home, which live-tweets the movements
Gaze into the eye of the bee, and the colony gazes into you. This is not honeycomb, but the individual components (ommatidia) of a bee’s compound eye.
Full credit … Read the rest “Science Art: Surface of a Western honeybee’s eye, by Janice Carr and Connie Flowers.”
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