Look closer. We discovered a whole new body part – and it’s in your eye.
Bioscience Technology opens our eyes to the groundbreaking researchers who have discovered a whole new layer of the human cornea: The new layer has been […]
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Switching the light on and off to switch OCD on and off.
Nature looks at some strange mice and even stranger methodology used to map their brains – by using light to turn OCD on and off: […]
I don’t know that quasar – can you hum a few bars?
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 […]
Perfect pitch isn’t.
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: Absolute […]
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.)
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 […]
SONG: “Beautiful People” (a penitential Books cover)
SONG: “Beautiful People” (penitential cover) (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This is a cover (a late one) making up for […]
Breast-feeding grows brains.
Futurity hops on the lactation train with a study that proves breastfed babies grow their brains earlier and better: [T]his is the first imaging study […]
SciAm’s 30 under 30 – and a pack of Nobel laureates they can mingle with.
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 […]
Specific numbers make negotiations more favorable. For you. Not the other guy.
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: Research […]
Synthetic skin for a more sensitive robot.
New Scientist explores the gentler side of our eventual mechanical overlords, as engineers create a sensor-studded skin for a gentle, sensitive robot: Most robots are […]
The smarter you are, the less you’ll be distracted by large-scale…. Wait, what was I saying?
BBC puts on a big show about how smart folks’ brains filter out big background motions – a capacity that proves that intelligence is really… […]
Science Art: VASIMR (Variable specific impulse magnetoplasma rocket)
Click to embiggen This is one way we might visit that rosy Saturn hurricane from last week. It’s VASIMR, a rocket engine that uses plasma […]
Breast milk makes antibiotics work better.
Or, Sci-News.com seems to be saying, a protein from breast milk at least undoes
Google brings the internet to Africa. By blimp.
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: […]
Twin beams of light make fiberoptics better.
By about four times, BBC reports. Using double beams of light quadruples the data capacity of fiber-optic cables: What limits the distance a given light […]