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Climate change real-estate boom: Buy high. Really high.

22 July 2013 grant 0

Fast Company looks to the heights to chronicle a potential climate change real estate boom:

Scientists and politicians have even come to the conclusion that whole countries such as Mauritius

… Read the rest “Climate change real-estate boom: Buy high. Really high.”

Science Art: Plate from Kitab fi al-adwiyah al-mufradah by Abu Ja`far al-Ghafiqi.

21 July 2013 grant 0

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In the 11th century, this was the pinnacle of medical knowledge – a book called Kitab fi al-adwiyah al-mufradah compiled by an Andalusian scholar Abu Ja`far al-Ghafiqi.

It’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Plate from Kitab fi al-adwiyah al-mufradah by Abu Ja`far al-Ghafiqi.”

A tsunami on the surface of the sun.

19 July 2013 grant 0

BBC has video footage taken by NASA’s SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory) and Japan’s Hinode spacecraft, two satellites that have just filmed a tsunami on the surface of the … Read the rest “A tsunami on the surface of the sun.”

New language being born in Australia

18 July 2013 grant 0

I heard this on NPR, but it’s been doing the rounds lately – as all happy news should. Rather than mourning the death of yet another language, linguists are now celebrating the… Read the rest “New language being born in Australia”

You don’t get bitten because you’re so sweet. Well, not exactly….

17 July 2013 grant 0

Smithsonian explains summer’s great mystery – why mosquitoes find some victims sweeter:

An estimated 20 percent of people, it turns out, are especially delicious for mosquitoes,

… Read the rest “You don’t get bitten because you’re so sweet. Well, not exactly….”

Prehistoric art shows psychedelic traces, scientists say.

16 July 2013 grant 0

Alternet (of course) spreads the news that researchers studying our earliest ancestors have collected some intriguing proof that cave painters were tripping:

Their thesis intriguingly

… Read the rest “Prehistoric art shows psychedelic traces, scientists say.”

NASA 3D prints a rocket engine part.

15 July 2013 grant 0

BBC has the details on the space-agency’s successful test of a printed fuel injector:

The part is used to deliver liquid oxygen and hydrogen gas to an engine’s combustion chamber.

… Read the rest “NASA 3D prints a rocket engine part.”

Science Art: Plan for the Muscles of the Eye by John Bell, 1810

14 July 2013 grant 0

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A striking gaze from Engravings of the Bones, Muscles, and Joints, Illustrating the First Volume of the Anatomy of the Human Body by John Bell, Surgeon.

The backyard plasma ships (that you can help build).

12 July 2013 grant 0

Laboratory Equipment spreads the word (and we’re spreading it farther) about these space scientists who’ve decided to use Kickstarter to send the first plasma-drive ship… Read the rest “The backyard plasma ships (that you can help build).”

Flying robot lands on aircraft carrier.

11 July 2013 grant 0

I’m not sure whether to be in awe of this or to be totally blase. But Reuters is reporting that for the first time, an unmanned fighter jet landed on the moving deck of an aircraft carrier… Read the rest “Flying robot lands on aircraft carrier.”

Frederick Kaufman wants to open-source genetically modified crops. And maybe save the planet.

10 July 2013 grant 0

Slate has printed his controversial plan to live up to the promise of gene science without the industrial agriculture downside:

The GMO story has become mired in the eco-wrecking narrative

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Wanna help explore the ocean? You can.

9 July 2013 grant 0

Nature reports on a new initiative to crowdsource oceanography:

Just about the first action involved in any experiment at sea is the casting overboard of a conductivity, temperature and

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Make marshes, keep Earth cool.

8 July 2013 grant 0

Laboratory Equipment recommends getting bogged down to prevent global warming, with research that shows man-made marshes can fight climate change:

…[S]ays Bill Mitsch, director

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NASA answers 7-year-old’s letter.

8 July 2013 grant 0

Stay cool, space explorers. Never change.

Science Art: Black Hole Lensing by Urbane Legend

7 July 2013 grant 0

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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”

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