New Scientist opens wide to tell us Mars Rover Curiosity is ready to drill into the Red Planet:
… Read the rest “Hello, Mars! This won’t hurt a bit.”Chemical analysis from one of the rover’s remote-sensing cameras shows that the veins
Nature reports that the link between youthful indulgence in marijuana and IQ loss might be overstated:
… Read the rest “Dope smokers maybe not so dopey.”Ole Røgeberg, a labour economist at the Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research
Laboratory Equipment goes all comic book superhero with a medical story on researchers taking the power of regeneration from tadpole tails:
… Read the rest “Tadpole tails are strong medicine”For several years Prof. Enrique Amaya and his
US News pictures a world with incurable sexually transmitted diseases:
… Read the rest “Antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea. If there was any doubt the party was over…”The fears of major health organizations have come true: Gonorrhea that is immune to the last remaining effective
Australian digital artist Russell Kightley does scientific visualization.
I found this particular vision on Scientific Illustration.
It’s a robot exoskeleton, Aliens-style. And it really works.
Smithsonian magazine is comparing computer pioneer Jaron Lanier – one of the people who, indirectly, made what you’re reading (and the way you’re reading it) possible… Read the rest “The guy who invented virtual reality – he thinks there’s something wrong with the internet.”
It’s the first rigid-body airship since the Hindenburg, says the Register. And the military is banking on Pelican to change the way we fly:
… Read the rest “Newest new Zeppelin is taking test flights. And *landings*.”The 230ft-long, 18-ton demonstrator has
I looove DIY projects, and this one’s a doozy. Techli’s got the inside scoop on a Chicago science-artist’s system for not only creating remote-controlled cockroaches,… Read the rest “Create your own robo-roach at home!”
I can’t read the German here, but it sure looks like an illustration of a jackal and another illustration of snakes and scorpions. I’m guessing this was a tour of Egypt…… Read the rest “Science Art: From Under den Griechen Berhuempesten Gschichtschreibers sechs Bücher, by Siculus Diodorus, 1554.”
Laboratory Equipment reveals a quantum leap in tDCS – transcranial direct current stimulation, or zapping your brain to make it do things differently. As the regular reader knows… Read the rest “They just invented the wire. (Electrodes that release opiates in the brain.)”
Researchers at Tel Aviv University have mapped out the perceptual problem with racism, in a Psychological Science study looking at the way “essentialism” limits our ability… Read the rest “Racism linked to a lack of creativity. (A surprise from the pigeonhole department.)”
SONG: “Mesopotamia” (penitential cover) (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: This is a cover (a late one) making up for… Read the rest “SONG: “Mesopotamia” (a penitential B52s cover)”
Nature celebrates the discovery of ancient life… not from the much-ballyhooed Lake Vostok project, but a smaller lake. Still frozen for a long, long time. And definitely home to … Read the rest “There is life under Antarctica’s ice.”
Well, maybe not *directly*… but Science Daily explains how scientists are watching Arabidopsis thaliana, a fast-growing, globally found weed known as mouse-eared cress, to learn… Read the rest “The weed that can feed the world.”
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