New Scientist has an amazing new therapy for patients in a vegetative state – using the same direct current-stimulation that increases creative “flow” to turn their… Read the rest “Electric current rouses the vegetative after years of unconsciousness.”
Georgia Tech researchers are trying to become prosthetic Neal Pearts, Science Daily reports, with an improvising robotic drumming limb:
… Read the rest “Three-armed cyborg drummer. Yeah. A drummer with a third robot arm.”The robotic drumming prosthesis has motors that
Nature digs up the info on the termite robots built this castle:
… Read the rest “Robot swarms that build. By themselves…”The robots all work independently. Each travels along a grid and can move, climb a step and lift and put down bricks. And they
New Scientist is not (we hope) introducing a 1950s-style horror film with their story on the giant, prehistoric virus THAT LIVES AGAIN:
… Read the rest “Giant, prehistoric virus thawed from Siberian permafrost.”Dubbed a pithovirus after the Greek pithos, meaning
At least if we’re flies, it does. Nature has more on the laser beam that puts flies in the mood for love:
… Read the rest “This laser turns us *on*.”Optogenetics — triggering neurons with light — has been successful in mice but
A scientific visualization from NASA Goddard’s Scientific Visualization Studio, who have this to say about it:
… Read the rest “Science Art: An X-class Solar Flare, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center”An X-class solar flare erupted on the left side of the sun on the evening of
New Scientist takes a surprisingly nuanced look at the way things like oysters and shrimp might actually be responding to trauma. They’re not all the same. Research shows that, as… Read the rest “Should you really eat that lobster? On invertebrates and pain…”
PhysOrg has the skinny on ESA’s Gaia telescope and its quest to catalogue a billion stars:
… Read the rest “Largest space telescope is ready to… observe.”Gaia will be able to discern objects up to 400,000 times dimmer than those visible to the naked
DailyGalaxy.com shares the weird – an experiment that’s been proposed to tell for once and for all if classical physics can explain the universe, or if everything there is … Read the rest “MIT astrophysicists set to detect just *how* weird the universe really is.”
SONG: “The Road We Wander.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Monarch migration may become extinct,”… Read the rest “SONG: “The Road We Wander””
The Tumblr illustrator Nix is having a paleoart February, creating a new illustration of a non-dinosaur, non-pterosaur prehistoric creature every day of the month.
This is the seventh… Read the rest “Science Art: Cotylorhynchus, by Nix”
Michael Hearst! Composer! Writer! Player of atypical instruments! Science fan!
You are compiling instrumentals based on wonderful animals, like the glass frog, the magnapinna squid… Read the rest “Guild Salute: Michael Hearst, Songs for Unusual Creatures”
Modern Farmer reports on ongoing research that’s found that cows make more milk when listening to R.E.M. and Simon & Garfunkel:
… Read the rest “Like a Bridge Over Troubled Cream… no, wait. South Central Skim? *Nightmilking*?”Many dairies in the U.S. play either country
Science magazine reaches out with new research showing that elephants don’t just mourn their dead, but also try to comfort those in anguish:
… Read the rest “Elephants empathize.”The study “is the first to investigate
Nature examines a DNA test on a “Clovis boy,” whose DNA proves that 12,000 years ago, the ancestors of today’s Native Americans were already here:
… Read the rest “Native Americans go back longer than we thought.”…[T]he boy’s
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