New York Times has a pretty good profile of what could be the next big breakthrough in computing – the chips that understand “maybe”:
… Read the rest “Lockheed Martin’s quantum computer steps into the limelight.”[A] powerful new type of computer
This may be an important historical record of the early days of aeronautics, or it may be a vivid fantasy by a lonely, old man.
Either way, it’s beautiful.
The notebooks… Read the rest “Science Art: Plate 2527 Guarda (a mechanism for protecting airships), by Charles A.A. Dellschau, 1912.”
SONG: “So Heavy” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Super-dense celestial bodies could be a new kind… Read the rest “SONG: “So Heavy””
OK, well, instant veins of gold, at least. The gold, Nature says, is in the ground already. But it takes an earthquake to make it mine-able in a flash:
… Read the rest “Earthquakes make instant gold.”Scientists have long known that veins
Nature demonstrates how (possibly) our machines are transforming birds’ whole existence:
… Read the rest “Cars shape sparrows’ evolution.”Roadside-nesting cliff swallows have evolved shorter, more manoeuvrable wings, which
BBC reveals that giant squid, no matter where they’re found or how different from each other they look, are all genetically really close to one another:
… Read the rest “Giant squid CLONE ARMY. Or, well, at least a tight family.”An international team of researchers
One step closer to androids. That’s where scilogs is bringing us. Making a blood supply for bioengineered organs from scratch:
… Read the rest “Artificial stem cells make new blood.”Starting off with fibroblasts…, widespread
Wired reveals the weird ways nanotechnologists are making sound behave like light… this time, by creating a Star Trek weapon in the lab:
… Read the rest “Lasers made of sound. Call them… phasers.”Because laser is an acronym for “light amplification
I couldn’t resist this when I saw the name of the book it came from: Italian Food, by Elizabeth David. It’s an improbable English cookbook from the 1950s:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Frutti di Mare, by W.F. Phillips, 1974.”…David
San Antonio Express-News finds the greatest way to spend a weekend, figuring out what went wrong in the worst explosion in history:
… Read the rest “Blowing up the Hindenburg again. For good.”Most historians and scientists have always subscribed
Nature calls them, poetically enough, the skeletons of “wandering ice giants”:
… Read the rest “Super-dense… *things*… are a new kind of planet”Among the most puzzling finds of NASA’s Kepler space mission to find exoplanets, which launched
Smithsonian might terrify the Australian homeowner with their coverage of the the latest giant snail invasion:
… Read the rest “Australia faces their own house-eating snail invasion.”The giant African snail is a true nightmare. These snails grow to the size
NBC News is wondering what’s behind the massive blooms of marine microorganisms that are killing so many manatees:
… Read the rest “So why is red tide killing our manatees?”Florida wildlife officials report that 149 of the gentle giants
Great idea, if it works. Laboratory Equipment looks at the possibility of slicing up plastic trash to use as “ink” for 3D printers:
… Read the rest “Turn your milk jugs into… whatever. At home. With 3D printing.”Using free software downloaded from sites
This is an illustration of a model of a paradox – they hydrostatic paradox, as demonstrated by Blaise Pascal. The paradox is that the pressure at the bottom of a column… Read the rest “Science Art: Bodendruckapparat nach Pascal by Max Kohl”
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