Blowing up the Hindenburg again. For good.
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 […]
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Super-dense… *things*… are a new kind of planet
Nature calls them, poetically enough, the skeletons of
Australia faces their own house-eating snail invasion.
Smithsonian might terrify the Australian homeowner with their coverage of the
So why is red tide killing our manatees?
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 […]
Turn your milk jugs into… whatever. At home. With 3D printing.
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 […]
Science Art: Bodendruckapparat nach Pascal by Max Kohl
Click to embiggen This is an illustration of a model of a paradox – they hydrostatic paradox, as demonstrated by Blaise Pascal. The paradox is […]
Novel bacteria live in Lake Vostok. THEY LIVE!
PhysOrg announces the discovery of eerie, ancient lifeforms in an Antarctic lake: The samples obtained from the underground lake in May 2012 contained a bacteria […]
How they found the giant squid (TED talk)
Marine biologist Edith Widder reveals the secrets to a successful squid hunt:
Stem cell headline winner: “Bendable needle increases reach of a single injection to the brain.”
OUCH. Nature pulls no punches with OUCH. The ways they’re moving forward with stem cell therapies are pretty ingenious: Several laboratories are investigating ways to […]
Forbes follows how science gets started up.
Frida Polli, one of the financial folks at Forbes, is offering us a look at the sausage-factory of neuroscience funding: In 2007, after 6 years […]
Science Art: Indian Gharial by Wilhelm Eigener, 1958
Click to embiggen A sub-continental crocodilian, found on that good ol’ Scientific Illustration tumblog. It was painted by Wilhelm Eigener, one of Germany’s most sought-after […]
Wii builds better surgeons.
PLOSone is going to lead to videogame suites being installed in major training hospitals, I just know it, thanks to research showing that playing Nintendo […]
Slow and steady mutations save the species.
Or at least, Astrobiology says, save the species’ descendants. The secret of survival, on an evolutionary scale, isn’t a single lucky mutant, but a whole […]
“Human meat is not on the menu. Sorry.”
Reddit’s just had a Q&A with the CEO of a company dedicated to 3D printing edible meat: At Modern Meadow we’re developing technology to 3D-bioprint […]
Hubble snaps galactic vee.
Space Daily enthuses over a strange formation snapped by Hubble – a deep-space V made by two galaxies, overlapping like enormous wings in space: This […]