Bioscience Technology opens our eyes to the groundbreaking researchers who have discovered a whole new layer of the human cornea:
… Read the rest “Look closer. We discovered a whole new body part – and it’s in your eye.”The new layer has been dubbed the Dua’s Layer after the
Nature looks at some strange mice and even stranger methodology used to map their brains – by using light to turn OCD on and off:
… Read the rest “Switching the light on and off to switch OCD on and off.”Researchers have both created and relieved symptoms
Smithsonian joins the celestial chorus singing the praises of a new way to process astronomical data. A software package called xSonify is turning the sounds of space into music:
… Read the rest “I don’t know that quasar – can you hum a few bars?”For most
Science Daily sticks it to the people with an innate ear for what’s a C and what isn’t. Apparently, “perfect pitch” can be fooled:
… Read the rest “Perfect pitch isn’t.”Absolute pitch has been “idealized
Image originally from Suggestions to the keepers of the U.S. life-saving stations, light-houses, and light-ships; and to other observers, relative to the best means of collecting and… Read the rest “Science Art: Hover Whales (from Suggestions to the keepers of the U.S. life-saving stations, light-houses, and light-ships; and to other observers, relative to the best means of collecting and preserving specimens of whales and porpoises. By Frederick W. True.)”
SONG: “Beautiful People” (penitential cover) (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: This is a cover (a late one) making … Read the rest “SONG: “Beautiful People” (a penitential Books cover)”
Futurity hops on the lactation train with a study that proves breastfed babies grow their brains earlier and better:
… Read the rest “Breast-feeding grows brains.”[T]his is the first imaging study that looked for differences associated
Scientific American looks forward to an experimental party. We’re going to watch what happens when you put 30 young chemists in a room with some of the world’s brightest scientists… Read the rest “SciAm’s 30 under 30 – and a pack of Nobel laureates they can mingle with.”
Doesn’t matter who you are or what you want, University Herald explains. The negotiator who asks for the specific number gets the upper hand:
… Read the rest “Specific numbers make negotiations more favorable. For you. Not the other guy.”Research conducted by [Columbia Business
New Scientist explores the gentler side of our eventual mechanical overlords, as engineers create a sensor-studded skin for a gentle, sensitive robot:
… Read the rest “Synthetic skin for a more sensitive robot.”Most robots are taught to avoid
BBC puts on a big show about how smart folks’ brains filter out big background motions – a capacity that proves that intelligence is really… oh, look! What’s that… Read the rest “The smarter you are, the less you’ll be distracted by large-scale…. Wait, what was I saying?”
This is one way we might visit that rosy Saturn hurricane from last week.
It’s VASIMR, a rocket engine that uses plasma to go to faraway places without having to haul… Read the rest “Science Art: VASIMR (Variable specific impulse magnetoplasma rocket) ”
Or, Sci-News.com seems to be saying, a protein from breast milk at least undoes a certain level of antibiotic resistance in some pretty nasty germs:
… Read the rest “Breast milk makes antibiotics work better.”In petri dish and animal experiments,
The Telegraph reports on (or, at least, repeats Wired‘s reporting on) the dirigibles spreading the World Wide Web to places no internet has gone before:
… Read the rest “Google brings the internet to Africa. By blimp.”“To help enable the campaign,
By about four times, BBC reports. Using double beams of light quadruples the data capacity of fiber-optic cables:
… Read the rest “Twin beams of light make fiberoptics better.”What limits the distance a given light signal can go is how much power is
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