Laboratory Equipment reveals how computers can now ID you by watching you walk:
… Read the rest “The way you walk is just the way YOU walk. And the computer knows it.”he National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has developed a walking gait recognition system that, in combination
No one can possibly do better than the Archives of Sexual Behavior in describing this study. The article’s headline says all it needs to:
… Read the rest “The mere anticipation of an interaction with a woman can impair men’s cognitive performance.”The mere anticipation of an interaction with
Me, I love science. New Scientist does too. So it makes us feel weird to point out that a lot of the time, it just doesn’t work:
… Read the rest “Medical science: Not all it’s cracked up to be”many recent reports have raised the alarm that a shocking
New York Times reviews a new dictionary of a really old language:
… Read the rest “Demotic dictionary, for ancient expressions.”Demotic was one of the three scripts inscribed on the Rosetta stone, along with Greek and hieroglyphs, enabling European
The Atlantic reports on a record-breaking experiment that is reaching a conclusion nearly a century after it started… when a Scottish fisherman found a message in a bottle tossed… Read the rest “Message in a bottle. From 98 years ago.”
That’s Homo heidelbergensis stopping for a quick sip of water, as imagined by Zdenek Burian.
Zdenek Burian was possibly Eastern Europe’s (and maybe the world’s) most… Read the rest “Science Art: Heidelberg Man, by Zdenek Burian.”
Time travels to the Amazon to reveal the fungi that creates the clouds:
… Read the rest “The mushrooms that make the weather.”The clouds in the Amazon, just like everywhere else, consist of water vapor clinging to tiny clumps of carbon compounds.
New Scientist may have uncovered the bones of Richard III, the king either most villainous or most misunderstood of Plantangenet:
… Read the rest “Richard loves Richard, that is, I and I….”What exactly has been found?
The body of an adult male has
Guardian reports on the growing body of evidence that Alzheimer’s disease comes from what we eat – that the senility disease might actually be caused by junk food:
… Read the rest “They call Alzheimer’s “type-3 diabetes” – because it’s caused by junk food.”About 35
Cambridge researchers have determined that an iridescent berry is the brightest thing in nature:
… Read the rest “The shiniest living thing.”The ‘brightest’ thing in nature, the Pollia condensata fruit, does not get its blue colour
Guardian takes a look underwater, and what it sees (and, more importantly, what scientists are seeing) really doesn’t look good:
… Read the rest “The reefs are collapsing.”The decline of the reefs has been rapid: in the 1970s,
This, the text tells me, is an “outside-spring indicator, by Messrs. Elliott Bros.” The spring is not exposed to high temperature, which makes it better for indicating. I’m… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. 100 (Outside-Spring Indicator) from Steam-engine Theory and Practice by William Ripper, 1922”
Yep. Scientific American has more on the unmanned aircraft that NASA and the USGS is using to explore the alien landscape of northeastern California:
… Read the rest “Flying robot maps Surprise Valley”Yesterday marked the first day of the
Machines, BBC reports, are one step closer to personhood, thanks to Yale researchers inventing Nico, a robot who knows himself:
… Read the rest “The robot knows itself.”“It is a spatial reasoning task for the robot to understand
Say that five times fast. Harvard Gazette wraps its tendrils around a new way to build springs based on the coiling shoots of cucumber vines:
… Read the rest “Climbing cukes clinch kinky springs.”Harvard researchers, captivated by a strange
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