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”
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
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”
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
This is where European scientists work on experiments for the Compact Muon Spectrometer and Atlas, the project that found the Higgs boson.
Which is to say, smart people… Read the rest “Science Art: Bldng40cropped.jpg (CERN office building 40), by Gillis Danielsen.”
The Telegraph marvels at physicists learning how to levitate and move solid objects using sound waves:
… Read the rest “Sound levitation. No magnets. Sound.”They then levitate match heads, drops of water, screws and nuts.
The researchers
I can’t even begin with this one. But yes, researchers at the Czech University of Agriculture have determined that dogs orient themselves to magnetic north when excreting:
… Read the rest “Dogs poop in alignment with the Earth’s magnetic field”We measured
Universe Today is showing off NASA snapshops of China’s Chang’e3 lunar lander and Yutu lunar rover:
… Read the rest “Hey, You Two on the Moon – You and Yutu!”According to School of Earth and Space Exploration professor Mark Robinson’s
…and they way they move, ScienceDaily says follows the same mathematical pattern:
… Read the rest “So a shark, a hunter-gatherer and a honeybee walk into a bar…”A mathematical pattern of movement called a Lévy walk describes the foraging behavior of animals
SEN reveals the poetic way we’re planning to keep tomorrow’s satellites from turning into space junk:
… Read the rest “Sailing satellites out of orbit”In low orbits, there is still sufficient atmosphere to generate the
Rodents, as appearing in a book of medicinal herbs (619 of them?) by Etienne-Francois Geoffroy and Francois Alexandre de Garsault.
Or so BioDiv Library would have us believe. Leafing through… Read the rest “Science Art: Plate 721: Mus minor, Souris; Mus major, Rat from … well, ostensibly Description, vertus et usages de sept cents dix-neuf plantes…,”
BBC has more on one unfortunate modern human inheritance from our ancestors interbreeding with Neanderthals:
… Read the rest “Latin American diabetes risk traced to Neanderthal ancestors.”The gene variant was detected in a large genome-wide association study (GWAS)
Nature celebrates (sort of) a discovery that makes it just a smidge more likely that there’s life somewhere else out there – a little blip that probably means there’s… Read the rest “Exomoon spotted. Maybe. (And, well, it probably won’t happen again.)”
SONG: “Like A Rooster At Dawn” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Duck-billed dinosaur had rooster-like… Read the rest “SONG: “Like a Rooster at Dawn””
PhysOrg takes a deeper look at the reasons why prehistoric doctors poked holes in their patients’ heads:
… Read the rest “Drill two holes in your head and see me in the morning.”However, evidence shows that healers in Peru practiced trepanation—a surgical
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