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Lockheed Martin’s quantum computer steps into the limelight.

25 March 2013 grant 0

New York Times has a pretty good profile of what could be the next big breakthrough in computing – the chips that understand “maybe”:

[A] powerful new type of computer

… Read the rest “Lockheed Martin’s quantum computer steps into the limelight.”

Science Art: Plate 2527 Guarda (a mechanism for protecting airships), by Charles A.A. Dellschau, 1912.

24 March 2013 grant 1

Charles A.A. Dellschau's Plate 2627 Guarda
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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”

23 March 2013 grant 0

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””

Earthquakes make instant gold.

22 March 2013 grant 0

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:

Scientists have long known that veins

… Read the rest “Earthquakes make instant gold.”

Cars shape sparrows’ evolution.

21 March 2013 grant 0

Nature demonstrates how (possibly) our machines are transforming birds’ whole existence:

Roadside-nesting cliff swallows have evolved shorter, more manoeuvrable wings, which

… Read the rest “Cars shape sparrows’ evolution.”

Giant squid CLONE ARMY. Or, well, at least a tight family.

20 March 2013 grant 0

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:

An international team of researchers

… Read the rest “Giant squid CLONE ARMY. Or, well, at least a tight family.”

Artificial stem cells make new blood.

19 March 2013 grant 0

One step closer to androids. That’s where scilogs is bringing us. Making a blood supply for bioengineered organs from scratch:

Starting off with fibroblasts…, widespread

… Read the rest “Artificial stem cells make new blood.”

Lasers made of sound. Call them… phasers.

18 March 2013 grant 0

Wired reveals the weird ways nanotechnologists are making sound behave like light… this time, by creating a Star Trek weapon in the lab:

Because laser is an acronym for “light amplification

… Read the rest “Lasers made of sound. Call them… phasers.”

Science Art: Frutti di Mare, by W.F. Phillips, 1974.

17 March 2013 grant 0

fruttadimarePhillips
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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:

…David

… Read the rest “Science Art: Frutti di Mare, by W.F. Phillips, 1974.”

Blowing up the Hindenburg again. For good.

15 March 2013 grant 0

San Antonio Express-News finds the greatest way to spend a weekend, figuring out what went wrong in the worst explosion in history:

Most historians and scientists have always subscribed

… Read the rest “Blowing up the Hindenburg again. For good.”

Super-dense… *things*… are a new kind of planet

14 March 2013 grant 1

Nature calls them, poetically enough, the skeletons of “wandering ice giants”:

Among the most puzzling finds of NASA’s Kepler space mission to find exoplanets, which launched

… Read the rest “Super-dense… *things*… are a new kind of planet”

Australia faces their own house-eating snail invasion.

13 March 2013 grant 0

Smithsonian might terrify the Australian homeowner with their coverage of the the latest giant snail invasion:

The giant African snail is a true nightmare. These snails grow to the size

… Read the rest “Australia faces their own house-eating snail invasion.”

So why is red tide killing our manatees?

12 March 2013 grant 0

NBC News is wondering what’s behind the massive blooms of marine microorganisms that are killing so many manatees:

Florida wildlife officials report that 149 of the gentle giants

… Read the rest “So why is red tide killing our manatees?”

Turn your milk jugs into… whatever. At home. With 3D printing.

11 March 2013 grant 0

Great idea, if it works. Laboratory Equipment looks at the possibility of slicing up plastic trash to use as “ink” for 3D printers:

Using free software downloaded from sites

… Read the rest “Turn your milk jugs into… whatever. At home. With 3D printing.”

Science Art: Bodendruckapparat nach Pascal by Max Kohl

10 March 2013 grant 0

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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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