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”
Once again, New Scientist delivers a headline I can’t beat. A statue the Nazis brought to Germany from Tibet has been found to have been made of stuff from space:
… Read the rest “Buddhist “Iron Man” found by Nazis is from space.”Known as the ‘iron man’,
It’s at http://www.haverford.edu/physics-astro/songs/… whatever it is!
[via @vruba]
Gigaom has the scoop on Tesla’s bid to change the face of America – by introducing a network of electric-car charging stations:
… Read the rest “Tesla unveils the electric filling station.”Eectric car maker Tesla announced on Monday
A black-and-white birth sequence.
From archive.org’s copy of “On Some Heterogenetic Modes of Origin of Flagellated Monads, Fungus-Germs, and Ciliated Infusoria”… Read the rest “Science Art: Simplest Mode of Development of Monads and Fungi from the Pellicle, 1871.”
SONG: “Particle.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant (with apologies to Antonio Vivaldi).
SOURCE: Based on “How Fungi… Read the rest “SONG: Particle”
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