Have sanctions helped Cubans live longer?
Nature wades into international politics (and some pretty harsh facts) with a theory for the “unintended consequences” file. Researchers are floating the idea that an […]
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Science Art: The periodical cicada (”Magicicada septendecim”), Plate 7, from Insects, their way and means of living, by R. E. Snodgrass.
Click to embiggen It’s the year of magic. Or, well, the Magicicada septendecim – the 17-year magic cicada. Have you heard? They come back every […]
Buddy planets. We just found them, but they probably know each other.
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 […]
One bank account makes saving easier.
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 […]
Would you wear GMO silk?
Nature reveals how a mosquito-killing gene technique is being used to create better silk more efficiently: But male silkworms (Bombyx mori) are much more useful […]
The best food in space is shrimp cocktail.
The Atlantic reveals a culinary secret of near-Earth orbit. Astronauts love shrimp cocktail – and here’s why: Without gravity to pull blood toward the feet, […]
Southerners aren’t fatter. Just more honest.
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 […]
Science Art: Neuroscience Dress Trippy Retina Print, by Shenova
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 […]
Military navigator half as big as the engraving on the back of a penny.
And, Wired says, about as thick, too. But this chip can still do everything a GPS can do… without the satellites: At the University of […]
Slime couture.
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 […]
SHARK robot for hunting submarines
Robots.net reviews The Pentagon’s latest unmanned drone program – heading underwater with robots named SHARKs (Submarine Hold At RisK): The robot is designed for Distributed […]
Science Art: Nazca Lines, Peru, 2000, NASA’s Earth as Art
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 […]
Cthulhu lives! He’s just really small. And kinda cute.
Science, Space & Robots brings the paralysis of inhuman knowledge, as creatures tiny and writhing cast their malevolent gazes up at the electron scanning microscope. […]
Polar paradox: Warmer planet, larger ice cap.
Nature puzzles over an unforeseen consequence of global warming – an expansion of Antarctic sea ice as the climate warms: While sea ice at the […]
Tiki Brazil (Thor Heyerdahl was right! Maybe.)
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 […]