Science Art: Front Cover, Chemistry of Photography by Mallinckrodt Chemical Works
An artisan, working with technology.
A front cover image from 1940, found in the New York Public Library Digital Gallery.
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Astronaut Chris Hadfield just wrote and recorded a song in space.
That’s it. Canada’s space hero did this on the International Space Station.
You can hear the slight buzz of the station’s fans in the background.
I DON’T MIND … Read the rest “Astronaut Chris Hadfield just wrote and recorded a song in space.”
SONG: “Starts Beating”
SONG: “Starts Beating” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Scientists build a biological pacemaker… Read the rest “SONG: “Starts Beating””
Science Art: Leriche Syndrome Digital Subtraction Angiography by Hellerhoff.
We’ve talked about digital subtraction angiography before… taking X-ray images and using a computer to remove everything you *don’t* want to see.
This image, of aortal… Read the rest “Science Art: Leriche Syndrome Digital Subtraction Angiography by Hellerhoff.”
Spider spins a spider decoy in its web…
Wired beholds an eerie arthropod self-portrait… a piece of functional art, a spider, by spider:
… Read the rest “Spider spins a spider decoy in its web…”In September, [biologist Phil] Torres was leading visitors into a floodplain surrounding
Space statistics: Martian astronauts would see a 1-megaton collision
MIT Technology Review crunches the numbers and figures that anyone who spends three years on Mars is going to witness an H-bomb-sized asteroid collision:
… Read the rest “Space statistics: Martian astronauts would see a 1-megaton collision”Today. William Bruckman and pals
Virus rebuilds unhealthy hearts
io9.com, appropriately enough, has the details on a treatment that seems straight out of science fiction – a virus that infects heart cells and turns them into a biological pacemaker… Read the rest “Virus rebuilds unhealthy hearts”
Leaked report: Global warming is actually happening.
Brace yourselves for more global warming news. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is ready to post its next report. Most of us, like Scientific American, won’t really… Read the rest “Leaked report: Global warming is actually happening.”
Science Art: Quarzkristall, by Jens Both Elcap
Here’s the key component of a crystal oscillator – which is to say, the slightly fancier version of a pendulum that keeps time inside an electronic timepiece.… Read the rest “Science Art: Quarzkristall, by Jens Both Elcap”
Flame Challenge returns… with TIME.
Remember Alan Alda’s quest to explain what a flame is so an 11-year-old would understand? He’s polled hundreds of elementary-school kids and is asking another question now.… Read the rest “Flame Challenge returns… with TIME.”
Rivers on Titan
SciTech Daily salutes the latest Cassini discovery – first surface liquid spotted on an alien world:
… Read the rest “Rivers on Titan”The international Cassini mission has spotted what appears to be a miniature
Giant squid filmed at home.
Discovery doesn’t have much to say about it other than, in essence, YES! FINALLY! WE FILMED A GIANT SQUID!
… Read the rest “Giant squid filmed at home.”Mankind finally confronts the greatest mystery of the deep as the first-ever
Chemist: STOP WITH THE CHRISTMAS BALLOONS!
Telegraph does not take the ballooning helium shortage lightly, and neither does Cambridge chemist Dr. Peter Wothers:
… Read the rest “Chemist: STOP WITH THE CHRISTMAS BALLOONS!”Helium is a non-renewable gas that is used to cool magnets in MRI scanners
Science Art: Seventeenth Century Sites Examined by Archaeologists, from The Archaeology of Boston pamphlet,
A map from the Massachusetts Environment Department City Archaeology Program, found on archive.org.
More on the “party drug” that’s helping America’s veterans (and others).
New York Times reviews the research demonstrating that MDMA, better known as X, can work wonders with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder patients:
… Read the rest “More on the “party drug” that’s helping America’s veterans (and others).”Government regulators criminalized the