SONG: “The Impossible One”
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Biofuel done cheaper (thanks to sulfuric acid).
Nature is predigesting our gasoline… or something like that. Researchers have found that you can get fuel out of some tough material by treating it with a chemical mixture that breaks… Read the rest “Biofuel done cheaper (thanks to sulfuric acid).”
Say hi to Rosetta, the tweeting comet probe.
She’s European. And she’s making all kinds of friends on the Twitter:
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Later school starting times make for better students.
Laboratory Equipment explains why moving the morning bell a little later makes education more effective:
… Read the rest “Later school starting times make for better students.”Julie Boergers, a psychologist and sleep expert from the Bradley Hasbro Children’s
Science Art: Spark Test For Hardness Of Metal, 1941
From the US Naval Research Laboratory manual Mechanical Practice.
There’s also a *great* diagram of Phillips-head screws.
Earth-like planets might not be so Earth-like… as gassy Earth shows.
Nature examines he implications of a planet that *should* be a twin to Earth, but isn’t – because it’s a gassy Earth-sized planet:
… Read the rest “Earth-like planets might not be so Earth-like… as gassy Earth shows.”Not only is the planet too warm for liquid
This robot flies like jellyfish swim.
BBC describes the first drone that can hover by flapping its wings:
… Read the rest “This robot flies like jellyfish swim.”The work by Leif Ristroph and Stephen Childress from New York University (NYU) is published in the UK Royal Society journal
Caffeine improves your memory.
And your mood, of course, but Laboratory Equipment doesn’t get into that. No, all they focus on is the boost caffeine gives your long-term memory:
… Read the rest “Caffeine improves your memory.”Michael Yassa, assistant professor
Stories change your brain.
Washington Post has more on how a bit of literature can alter the structure of your brain:
… Read the rest “Stories change your brain.”“Stories shape our lives and in some cases help define a person,” says neuroscientist Gregory Berns,
Rarer than pterodactyl footprints…
Times of India reports that they’ve just found some pterosaur footprints in north India’s Jaisalmer Basin:
… Read the rest “Rarer than pterodactyl footprints…”“Near the Thaiyat Village on the Jaisalmer-Jodhpur highway
Science Art: The Kepler Orrery II
A visualization of every solar system discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope as of February 2012 – that’s 885 plaents in 361 systems. There’s… Read the rest “Science Art: The Kepler Orrery II”
Steampunk solutions: 19th-century tech used by Sandia fusion researchers
Laboratory Equipment has more on the Helmholz coil (a bit of antique lab machinery) and how one of its strange qualities might help Sandia’s “Z machine” fusion experiment… Read the rest “Steampunk solutions: 19th-century tech used by Sandia fusion researchers”
The impossible planet.
SEN has us baffled by a recently discovered planet that shouldn’t be there:
… Read the rest “The impossible planet.”The new world is the farthest out from its home star of any previously found. It is 11 times more massive than
Earthquake lights go deeper
Nature looks at the widening gap in understanding earthquake lights… not a gap in our knowledge, but in the ground, as fault lines pull apart to create eerie lights before quakes: … Read the rest “Earthquake lights go deeper”
A positron and an electron walk into a bar…
The Guardian polls scientists to get their favorite (and corniest) science jokes:
… Read the rest “A positron and an electron walk into a bar…”? A weed scientist goes into a shop. He asks: “Hey, you got any of that inhibitor of 3-phosphoshikimate-carboxyvinyl