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
BBC opens our eyes to a hidden process in the night, when sleep washes away toxic proteins in your brain:
… Read the rest “Sleep and be cleaned, O brain.”Scientists, who imaged the brains of mice, showed that the glymphatic system became
A plate of geometrically arranged capensis moths, as recorded by Pieter Cramer, a fabric merchant and butterfly fan.
The whole book is charming. From the Biological Diversity Library … Read the rest “Science Art: Plate CCCII, Fig. A.B. Capensis, from Pieter Cramer’s De Uitlandische Kapellen, 1779”
That space rock that blew up over the Urals (and was captured on a few different cameras)… well, BBC reports that they’ve just hauled a 5-foot-long fragment out of Russia’s… Read the rest “Remember that exploding meteorite? They just found a half-ton chunk of it.”
Outside meanders out of the campground and into the chem lab, following a Connecticut College experiment determining just how strong our junk-food cravings can get. As it turns out, the… Read the rest “Oreos “as addictive as cocaine.””
BBC looks ahead to a brighter future… at least as far as our energy supply is concerned. Fusion reactors have gotten one small step closer, using lasers that zap hydrogen into heavier… Read the rest “Lasers make the power of tomorrow.”
Pennies from Heaven? P’shaw! Nature looks over the vastly overvalued weather report on Saturn and Jupiter:
… Read the rest “Sooty, with a chance of diamonds.”…Mona Delitsky of California Specialty Engineering in Flintridge,
I’m pretty sure Nature is blazing a new B-movie trail with this report on hormone-disrupting chemicals “rising from the dead”:
… Read the rest “Zombie sex-change pollution”Environmental scientists have discovered
A Holocentrus hastatum, or Sargocentron hastatus, or red soldier fish. They have big spines, you see.
This one comes from A Natural History of Fish, by Georges Cuvier and M. Valenciennes,… Read the rest “Science Art: Holocentre à grosses épines, from Histoire Naturelle des Poissons, Volume 3, 1828”
Those questions were raised in, of all publications, Astrobiology Magazine. Why are astrobiologists so concerned about human culture? Because if civilizations can really die out, that… Read the rest “Utopia or catastrophe: How long do civilizations live? (And how can we find another?)”
National Geographic looks into the caves and reports on the earliest artists’ small, beautiful hands:
… Read the rest “Cave artists mostly feminine.”Archaeologist Dean Snow of Pennsylvania State University analyzed hand
Sweden’s The Local rewrites history with a pre-Viking farm that they’re calling “shocking”:
… Read the rest “After the Ice Age, the farmers came”“It is completely unique,” Jan Heinerud at Västerbotten’s
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