Nature reports on a new initiative to crowdsource oceanography:
… Read the rest “Wanna help explore the ocean? You can.”Just about the first action involved in any experiment at sea is the casting overboard of a conductivity, temperature and
Laboratory Equipment recommends getting bogged down to prevent global warming, with research that shows man-made marshes can fight climate change:
… Read the rest “Make marshes, keep Earth cool.”…[S]ays Bill Mitsch, director
An animated GIF (if it’s not moving for you, click the link) showing what it looks like if you’re looking at a black hole when a galaxy passes by in the background. Or at least when… Read the rest “Science Art: Black Hole Lensing by Urbane Legend”
Slate brings psychogeography a step closer to the mainstream, highlighting software that uses word frequency to show what kinds of people are in what parts of the city:
… Read the rest “Hipster heat maps and yuppie data visualizations”Of all the data goldmines
Extreme Tech has the details on the contacts that let you see like an eagle:
… Read the rest “Telescope contact lenses are a real thing.”The center of the lens allows light to pass straight through, providing normal vision. The outside edge, however,
Nature draws an ancient lesson from America’s favorite pastime, observing how baseball pitchers reveal the evolution of human beings:
… Read the rest “Pitchers tell evolution’s story”“Throwing projectiles probably enabled
Discover Magazine tries to put the record straight, revealing that the supposedly septic-mouthed Komodo dragons have been getting a bad rap:
… Read the rest “Komodo dragons’ lethal, bone-crushing jaws not all *that* dirty.”But of all the terrible tales told about these
Awww – is a teeny tiny tinamou!
It’s from this 1868 issue of Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library collection, apparently… Read the rest “Science Art: Chick and Egg of Tinamou &c, from Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, February 13, 1868”
Space.com looks hungrily to the stars… neutron stars, where a whole new form of matter makes seriously strange space spaghetti:
… Read the rest “Not solid, liquid, gas or plasma. Nuclear pasta.”A rare state of matter dubbed “nuclear pasta”
Nature bemoans the fact that America’s technological prowess is on the wane – and it’s getting really obvious that our science fleet has seen better days:
… Read the rest “A scientific mission to seek out new life and maybe some more duct tape. And baling wire.”“The community
SONG: “Inside My Eyes” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Fossil brain teaser: New study reveals patterns… Read the rest “SONG: “Inside My Eyes””
Scientific American dwells on the implications of us – inadvertently AND fully intentionally – sending messages out to aliens:
… Read the rest “Hey, @aliens! So this is where we are, and this is what we do! KThxBye!”We’ve made a few attempts at METI (messaging
Voice of America tracks something we were looking forward to here a while back – the blossoming potential of linking together Africa’s own space programs:
… Read the rest “Rocket Africa: the next pathway to space.”Observers looking
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