It’s the year of magic. Or, well, the Magicicada septendecim – the 17-year magic cicada.
Have you heard?
They come back every 17 years, black-winged and red-eyed… Read the rest “Science Art: The periodical cicada (”Magicicada septendecim”), Plate 7, from Insects, their way and means of living, by R. E. Snodgrass.”
New Scientist reports on the Kepler space telescope’s latest discovery: a pair of neighboring planets that could both support life – within easy reach of each other:
… Read the rest “Buddy planets. We just found them, but they probably know each other.”Though
PhysOrg flies in the face of the conventional wisdom that holds “out of sight, out of mind” as a savings strategy. Instead, we save better by keeping our eggs in one basket:
… Read the rest “One bank account makes saving easier.”[University
Nature reveals how a mosquito-killing gene technique is being used to create better silk more efficiently:
… Read the rest “Would you wear GMO silk?”But male silkworms (Bombyx mori) are much more useful for farmers: they are more
The Atlantic reveals a culinary secret of near-Earth orbit. Astronauts love shrimp cocktail – and here’s why:
… Read the rest “The best food in space is shrimp cocktail.”Without gravity to pull blood toward the feet, especially during
AL.com showcases some science that sets straight some old stereotypes. Southerners don’t have bigger guts than Americans from the North or the West. They just tell the truth when… Read the rest “Southerners aren’t fatter. Just more honest.”
This eye-catching dress is based on retinal neurons as observed by Ferrucio Tartuferi in 1887. He put eyes under the microscope and looked at what could have been looking back at him.
The … Read the rest “Science Art: Neuroscience Dress Trippy Retina Print, by Shenova”
And, Wired says, about as thick, too. But this chip can still do everything a GPS can do… without the satellites:
… Read the rest “Military navigator half as big as the engraving on the back of a penny.”At the University of Michigan on Wednesday, researchers for Darpa
This is a few weeks old by now, but still in fashion in a gorgeously disgusting way. Science News celebrates the creation of fine fabrics using hagfish slime:
… Read the rest “Slime couture.”“The tensile properties approach
Robots.net reviews The Pentagon’s latest unmanned drone program – heading underwater with robots named SHARKs (Submarine Hold At RisK):
… Read the rest “SHARK robot for hunting submarines”The robot is designed for Distributed
These are probably the world’s largest petroglyphs. They’re ancient rock carvings that we can see from space.
You can’t make out the funky checkerboards, or the hummingbirds… Read the rest “Science Art: Nazca Lines, Peru, 2000, NASA’s Earth as Art”
Science, Space & Robots brings the paralysis of inhuman knowledge, as creatures tiny and writhing cast their malevolent gazes up at the electron scanning microscope. Sleeping or… Read the rest “Cthulhu lives! He’s just really small. And kinda cute.”
Nature puzzles over an unforeseen consequence of global warming – an expansion of Antarctic sea ice as the climate warms:
… Read the rest “Polar paradox: Warmer planet, larger ice cap.”While sea ice at the North Pole has shrunk substantially
Nature, in what was almost certainly not an April Fools’ gag, reports that there’s genetic evidence, now, that Polynesians traveled to the Amazon in days gone by – because… Read the rest “Tiki Brazil (Thor Heyerdahl was right! Maybe.)”
New Scientist adds up the arguments over bitcoins, the computer-generated form of money. We’re now seeing plans to regulate the imaginary currency:
… Read the rest “Real money. Virtual currency. Hard rules.”Virtual currencies are to be
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