Not the moving parts kind, but the wedge/screw/lever kind. Want to move giant blocks of stone a few miles, but the locomotive and crane haven’t been invented yet? Nature‘s … Read the rest “How Forbidden City was built: ice machine!”
The Telegraph reveals that America’s space agency isn’t quite as clean as it could be. A previously unknown bacteria has been multiplying happily in *two* rooms designed … Read the rest “New bacteria species discovered… in NASA’s “clean rooms”.”
Intestinal bacteria, that is. Rheumatoid arthritis has long been a medical mystery – an autoimmune disease that’s triggered by who-knows-what, but that suddenly starts… Read the rest “Rheumatoid arthritis linked to gut germs.”
You might have seen on BBC and elsewhere that India launched a rocket to Mars. But have you seen the Quartz article on just how inexpensively they managed to do it?:
… Read the rest “India’s super-efficient Mars mission.”Christened Mangalyaan,
I’ve seen this in a few different venues, but Laughing Squid brings the best of it together. A dad, frustrated at the thought of buying his son a prosthetic hand for tens of thousands… Read the rest “Limbs printed to order.”
An up-close look at chemoreceptors, chemical-sensing nerves, from the 1950s.
Not a flower, nor a machine, but somewhere between both. Found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Birds survived. The rest of the dinosaurs didn’t. And now, Science Daily says, some bees survived. But a heck of a lot of bees went extinct with the dinosaurs:
… Read the rest “Bees that died with the dinosaurs”Lead author Sandra Rehan,
Laboratory Equipment reveals that there’s a plus to experiencing trauma. Your kids will have a lower risk of PTSD:
… Read the rest “Trauma: the sunny side.”Last year, junior investigator Sharon Dekel and Prof. Zahava Solomon
PhysOrg explains that circuits using lasers are already around, but tend to be too bulky to fit into your average TV set or smartphone. That might not be true for much longer, though:
… Read the rest “Laser-powered “optochips” could make tiny tech.”Through
ScienceDaily keeps an eye out for creepy-crawlies with news that primate vision may have evolved *specifically* to identify snakes:
… Read the rest “Snake vision. We evolved for snake vision.”In a paper published Oct. 28 in the journal Proceedings
Gigaom takes the two great tastes of home manufacturing and carbon crystalline structures and makes them taste great together with a 3D printer that creates objects out of graphene:
… Read the rest “Graphene is cool! 3D printing is cool! What else would be cool? Let’s put ’em TOGETHER!”Mining
A smugly skinless man from Bartholomeo Eustachi: Tabulae anatomicae, a series of engravings that were meant to be published in the 1560s, but were lost until 1714. In … Read the rest “Science Art: Table XXVI: The Circulatory System by Giulio de’ Musi, c. 1565.”
PhysOrg is sending out the call, as the Pentagon prepares to team up with brain-tech DIYers:
… Read the rest “Brain-tech DIYers! Grinders! Wire-heads! Uncle Sam wants YOU!”[…A]t the Maker Faire in New York, a new low-cost EEG recording front end was debuted at
SONG: “The Hardest of Carbon” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Diamond drizzle forecast for Saturn… Read the rest “SONG: “The Hardest of Carbon””
ZDnet shines on the newest bright idea to promise to change the way we internet… a Chinese project using lightbulbs to transmit information wirelessly:
… Read the rest “Bright wireless.”Four computers under a one-watt
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