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 […]
Say hi to Rosetta, the tweeting comet probe.
She’s European. And she’s making all kinds of friends on the Twitter: ESA Rosetta Mission @ESA_Rosetta 4h Labas, pasauli! Expand Reply Retweet Favorite … ESA […]
Later school starting times make for better students.
Laboratory Equipment explains why moving the morning bell a little later makes education more effective: Julie Boergers, a psychologist and sleep expert from the Bradley […]
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: Not only […]
This robot flies like jellyfish swim.
BBC describes the first drone that can hover by flapping its wings: The work by Leif Ristroph and Stephen Childress from New York University (NYU) […]
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: […]
Stories change your brain.
Washington Post has more on how a bit of literature can alter the structure of your brain: “Stories shape our lives and in some cases […]
Rarer than pterodactyl footprints…
Times of India reports that they’ve just found some pterosaur footprints in north India’s Jaisalmer Basin: “Near the Thaiyat Village on the Jaisalmer-Jodhpur highway there […]
Science Art: The Kepler Orrery II
Click to view animation. A visualization of every solar system discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope as of February 2012 – that’s 885 plaents in […]
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 […]
The impossible planet.
SEN has us baffled by a recently discovered planet that shouldn’t be there: The new world is the farthest out from its home star of […]
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 […]
A positron and an electron walk into a bar…
The Guardian polls scientists to get their favorite (and corniest) science jokes: ? A weed scientist goes into a shop. He asks: “Hey, you got […]