Time is dibsing front-row seats to the (potentially) big show when a black hole slurps down a gas cloud this fall:
… Read the rest “Black hole, light show.”Back in 2011, astronomers spotted an interstellar gas cloud plunging more
Sounds unnatural or absurd, doesn’t it? But that’s what the internet is making possible, according to Nature (whose publishers should be a little worried). Researchers … Read the rest “Journals without publishers.”
This device is “a regulateur des intermittences”, according to La Nature. I’m not sure what “intermittences” are exactly, but Gustave Trouvet was going… Read the rest “Science Art: Appareil Electromedical de G. Trouvet, from La Nature, 1878”
That’s what Science Daily says scientists have been doing when they hook up a probe precise enough to detect a single idea begin to form in a specific brain cell:
… Read the rest “Watching the thoughts of fishes.”“Our work is
Grist gives hope for affordable renewable energy from the engineers who’ve discovered that cones can make solar power cheaper than coal:
… Read the rest “Not solar panels – solar *cones*. That spin to keep cool.”The company is called V3Solar (formerly
Nature explores why our aging brains succumb to insomnia and forgetfulness at the same time:
… Read the rest “Don’t sleep. Forget. You are growing old.”Ageing is associated with the gradual loss of brain cells, sleep disturbances and declining
The Slashgear blog reveals DARPA’s new plan to convert decent, respectable fighter jets into pew-pew videogame laser gunships:
… Read the rest “Lasers on jets. That’s where we are now.”One of the laser projects is called the High Energy
LiveScience wonders what we should do with the bones of this lost, wretched King Richard III:
… Read the rest “Now is the parking lot of our discontent made glorious excavation site by our trowels….”The University of Leicester, which is overseeing the excavation and analysis of the remains,
An inside that is also an outside, as depicted in Python.
From the Center for Image in Science and Art, University of Lisbon.
New Scientist reveals how scientists are looking into the muddy, murky water of the Mississippi River… by getting mussels with electronic backpacks to do the hard work:
… Read the rest “Want a cleaner Mississippi? Put some mussel into it!”The plan
SONG: “In the Light” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Zoologger: The first solar-powered vertebrate”… Read the rest “SONG: “In the Light””
Miami-raised poet and engineer Richard Blanco was selected to write a poem for today’s presidential inauguration.
It begins and ends with the sky.
Here’s what he read:
… Read the rest “Science Art: “One Today,” by Richard Blanco”One
New Scientist‘s Zoologger celebrates Ambystoma maculatum, the first known vertebrate to get energy directly from sunlight:
… Read the rest “Solar powered animal.”Then in 2011 the story gained an additional twist.
A hothouse flower, far from home.
Mr. Fitch drew this picture – one of an awful lot – for The Orchid Album: Comprised of Coloured Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare and Beautiful… Read the rest “Science Art: Cattleya Maxima Backhousei by John Nugent Fitch, 1886”
NPR’s Tom Huizenga wants to know why he gets blissed out when he hears a great musical performance. So he asks musical neurologist Dan Levitin what’s going on:
… Read the rest “High on music.”The McGill University
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