BBC has one for the planet hunters – or, indeed, for Planethunters.org, which has just discovered a truly bizarre solar system using a pretty offbeat method:
… Read the rest “Amateur astronomers find planet with four suns.”The planet, located
Watch the skies next year, warns Scientific American, or you’ll miss something you’ll never see again:
… Read the rest “Once-in-a-lifetime comet comes around.”As it flares out of the distant Oort Cloud, the newly discovered comet
I looked for molecules in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character (1905-1934), and this is what… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. 2 – Slit Mechanism from “The Scattering of Hydrogen Positive Rays, and the Existence of a Powerful Field of Force in the Hydrogen Molecule” by G. Thompson in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London”
AsiaOne has more on the new planet made of hot, compressed carbon:
… Read the rest “Don’t tell DeBeers: Diamond twice the size of Earth found.”The rocky planet, called ‘55 Cancri e’, orbits a sun-like star 40 light years away in the constellation of Cancer and is moving
Extreme Tech gets right to the point of a new technology – a mechanical pencil that can draw functional electronic circuits:
… Read the rest “Draw your own circuits with nanotube pencils.”With MIT’s carbon nanotube pencil, the lead is formed
Fraud, reports Laboratory Equipment, is a growing problem in published research papers:
… Read the rest “Scientists: You can’t trust scientists.”A review of retractions in medical and biological peer-reviewed journals finds the percentage
French beekeepers, Russia Today tells us, were mystified when their hives started producing rainbow-colored honey – but were even more concerned when they found out the not-so-sweet… Read the rest “M&M waste gives bees honey of different colors.”
Thrilled, Guardian is to introduce to its readers a new submarine species they’re calling the Jedi acorn worm:
… Read the rest “The Force is strong in this worm.”Yoda purpurata is one of three new species of deep-sea acorn worms discovered
A caisson is a machine for working under water.
Meyers Konversations-Lexikon is a German encyclopedia.
Rise, German engineers. Rise.
Dive, German engineers. Dive.
Image found at Wikimedia… Read the rest “Science Art: Pneumatische Fundation (Senkkasten Caisson), from Meyers Konversationslexikon, 1889”
I’m taking a moment, with Archie McPhee, to celebrate the birth of a science dude.
Dude!
Michigan State University biochemists (and science artists!) have made a germy philosopher’s stone:
… Read the rest “Mighty bacteria make gold. Not a cold, gold.”“Microbial alchemy is what we’re doing – transforming gold from something
And, says the Sydney Morning Herald, more than three-quarters of the reef will have vanished within a decade:
… Read the rest “Half the Great Barrier Reef is gone.”A long-term investigation of the reef by scientists at Townsville’s
Laboratory Equipment finds a whole new depth to that umami thing. French chemists have devised an artificial tongue sensitive enough to tell the difference between proteins:
… Read the rest “Electric tongue tastes proteins.”Biosensors
National Geographic reveals the night monkeys and other bizarre creatures of the 70,000 acre jungle that explorers are calling “a heaven of biodiversity”:
… Read the rest “Eight new mammals discovered in Peru.”Rarely seen and
Is it cute?
It’s a tardigrade, also known as a water bear. That’s a cute name. And they’re tiny, too, which is part of cuteness, usually. Less than a millimeter… Read the rest “Science Art: Tardigrade”
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