Black hole, light show.
Time is dibsing front-row seats to the (potentially) big show when a black hole slurps down a gas cloud this fall: Back in 2011, astronomers […]
Articles by grant
Journals without publishers.
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 […]
Science Art: Appareil Electromedical de G. Trouvet, from La Nature, 1878
This device is “a regulateur des intermittences”, according to La Nature. I’m not sure what “intermittences” are exactly, but Gustave Trouvet was going to fix […]
Watching the thoughts of fishes.
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 […]
Not solar panels – solar *cones*. That spin to keep cool.
Grist gives hope for affordable renewable energy from the engineers who’ve discovered that cones can make solar power cheaper than coal: The company is called […]
Don’t sleep. Forget. You are growing old.
Nature explores why our aging brains succumb to insomnia and forgetfulness at the same time: Ageing is associated with the gradual loss of brain cells, […]
Lasers on jets. That’s where we are now.
The Slashgear blog reveals DARPA’s new plan to convert decent, respectable fighter jets into pew-pew videogame laser gunships: One of the laser projects is called […]
Now is the parking lot of our discontent made glorious excavation site by our trowels….
LiveScience wonders what we should do with the bones of this lost, wretched King Richard III: The University of Leicester, which is overseeing the excavation […]
Science Art: Finite Element Mesh for a Klein Surface, by Cristian Barbarosie, 2009.
Click to embiggen An inside that is also an outside, as depicted in Python. From
Want a cleaner Mississippi? Put some mussel into it!
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 […]
SONG: “In the Light”
SONG: “In the Light” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Zoologger: The first solar-powered vertebrate”, New Scientist, 18 January […]
Science Art: “One Today,” by Richard Blanco
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 […]
Solar powered animal.
New Scientist‘s Zoologger celebrates Ambystoma maculatum, the first known vertebrate to get energy directly from sunlight: Then in 2011 the story gained an additional twist. […]
Science Art: Cattleya Maxima Backhousei by John Nugent Fitch, 1886
A hothouse flower, far from home. Mr. Fitch drew this picture – one of an awful lot – for The Orchid Album: Comprised of Coloured […]
High on music.
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 […]