Spider spins a spider decoy in its web…
Wired beholds an eerie arthropod self-portrait… a piece of functional art, a spider, by spider: In September, [biologist Phil] Torres was leading visitors into a […]
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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: Today. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Science Art: Quarzkristall, by Jens Both Elcap
Click to embiggen Here’s the key component of a crystal oscillator – which is to say, the slightly fancier version of a pendulum that keeps […]
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 […]
Rivers on Titan
SciTech Daily salutes the latest Cassini discovery – first surface liquid spotted on an alien world: The international Cassini mission has spotted what appears to […]
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! Mankind finally confronts the greatest mystery […]
Chemist: STOP WITH THE CHRISTMAS BALLOONS!
Telegraph does not take the ballooning helium shortage lightly, and neither does Cambridge chemist Dr. Peter Wothers: Helium is a non-renewable gas that is used […]
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: Government regulators criminalized the […]
Mommy and me. (Or, I can’t get this kid out of my mind!)
Scientific American reveals that researchers have found evidence of what they call “microchimerism” – the children’s cells are living in their mother’s brains: We are […]
Genetical book review
Lost in Transcription’s “genetical book review” is a great idea executed well. Not a review of books as literature, but a review of the science […]
Durian mystery revealed: why *does* it stink so deliciously?
Laboratory Equipment plunges to the bottom of a pressing mystery – why the “king of fruits” packs such a pungent punch: Martin Steinhaus, from the […]
SONG: Complicated Man
SONG: “Complicated Man.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “New carnivorous harp sponge discovered in deep sea”, Nature, 9 […]