MIT’s Technology Review is not a publication ordinarily given to hyperbole. So it’s a little distracting when their web desk declares that Facebook is heading for an implosion… Read the rest “MIT: Facebook is about to kill the Internet. (Seriously?)”
The health desk at The Atlantic might be looking a little bit like a wood shop, thanks to their reporting on the medical marvels of bone putty:
… Read the rest “Putty fixes bones like chair legs.”Researchers at the University of Georgia Regenerative
PhysOrg gets me all het up over this modern-day alchemist who’s figured out how to transmute greenhouse gases into useful materials… and energy:
… Read the rest “Turning pollution into gold.”Making carbon-based products
…bad consequences follow. Forbes traces the problems with the most authoritative “we can cure the gay out of you” study:
… Read the rest “When bad science happens…”[Dr. Robert L.] Spitzer now looks back with
When you’re a pioneering aviator, it pays to have a brother who’s an illustrator.
From the Tissandier collection in the Library of Congress, a dream of the… Read the rest “Science Art: Paillettes de glace eclairées par les rayons du soleil observées en ballon, by M. Albert Tissandier”
Science Daily reaches out its withered hands to hold up the promise of a viral cure for aging:
… Read the rest “Doctor, make me forever young.”Researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), led by its director María
Discover launches a thousand new phobia cases with their expose (and I cannot do better than their headline here) Hidden Epidemic: Tapeworms in the Brain:
… Read the rest “I can honestly conceive of nothing less pleasant than this.”A blob in the brain is not the image
National Geographic unveils Kepler’s latest discovery – a really black planet:
… Read the rest “According to Public Enemy, I should now be very afraid…”Orbiting only about three million miles out from its star, the Jupiter-size gas giant planet,
Medical Xpress takes a closer look at the hazy, flickering way we really perceive the world:
… Read the rest “We only ever glimpse things in flashes….”The [University of Glasgow] researchers studied a prominent brain rhythm associated with visual
This is how to get hydrogen and oxygen from water – acidulated water – by using a Grove’s battery and two platinum wires. And “decomposing” the water. Try… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. 9, (electrolysis of water) from Chemistry, 1876.”
SONG: “This Stupid War.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Pesticide exposure linked to brain changes:… Read the rest “SONG: “This Stupid War””
Science magazine shores up our infrastructure with a report on how a kid’s toy can save our streets:
… Read the rest “Silly putty pothole repair”…[U]ndergraduates at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland…
New Scientist has a knack for bringing weird science to life. In this case, electronic germ-based computers:
… Read the rest “Magnetic bacteria make lively hard drives.”Hard drives are usually made by “sputtering”, in which clouds
The Telegraph (yes, I know, but…) gives hope to the potentially millions of women fed up with the regular ritual of mammograms with news that a new blood test can detect cancer risk … Read the rest “Blood test for breast cancer.”
Wired takes a leap into the cephashionable world of cephalopod textiles to give a sneak peak at next season’s color-changing squid-muscle shirts:
… Read the rest “Squid muscle is the new black (and red and green and blue….)”“We have taken inspiration
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