How Forbidden City was built: ice machine!
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 […]
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New bacteria species discovered… in NASA’s “clean rooms”.
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* […]
Rheumatoid arthritis linked to gut germs.
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 attacking […]
India’s super-efficient Mars mission.
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 […]
Limbs printed to order.
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 […]
Science Art: Typical chemosensory hair of the blowfly Phormia regina Meigen, from Molecular structure and functional activity of nerve cells…., 1955
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 […]
Bees that died with the dinosaurs
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 […]
Trauma: the sunny side.
Laboratory Equipment reveals that there’s a plus to experiencing trauma. Your kids will have a lower risk of PTSD: Last year, junior investigator Sharon Dekel […]
Laser-powered “optochips” could make tiny tech.
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 […]
Snake vision. We evolved for snake vision.
ScienceDaily keeps an eye out for creepy-crawlies with news that primate vision may have evolved *specifically* to identify snakes: In a paper published Oct. 28 […]
Graphene is cool! 3D printing is cool! What else would be cool? Let’s put ’em TOGETHER!
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 […]
Science Art: Table XXVI: The Circulatory System by Giulio de’ Musi, c. 1565.
Click to embiggen. A smugly skinless man from Bartholomeo Eustachi: Tabulae anatomicae, a series of engravings that were meant to be published in the 1560s, […]
Brain-tech DIYers! Grinders! Wire-heads! Uncle Sam wants YOU!
PhysOrg is sending out the call, as the Pentagon prepares to team up with brain-tech DIYers: […A]t the Maker Faire in New York, a new […]
SONG: “The Hardest of Carbon”
SONG: “The Hardest of Carbon” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Diamond drizzle forecast for Saturn and Jupiter,” Nature, […]
Bright wireless.
ZDnet shines on the newest bright idea to promise to change the way we internet… a Chinese project using lightbulbs to transmit information wirelessly: Four […]