Mighty bacteria make gold. Not a cold, gold.
Michigan State University biochemists (and science artists!) have made a germy philosopher’s stone: “Microbial alchemy is what we’re doing – transforming gold from something that […]
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Half the Great Barrier Reef is gone.
And, says the Sydney Morning Herald, more than three-quarters of the reef will have vanished within a decade: A long-term investigation of the reef by […]
Electric tongue tastes proteins.
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 […]
Eight new mammals discovered in Peru.
National Geographic reveals the night monkeys and other bizarre creatures of the 70,000 acre jungle that explorers are calling “a heaven of biodiversity”: Rarely seen […]
Science Art: Tardigrade
Click to embiggen 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 […]
Buddhist “Iron Man” found by Nazis is from space.
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 […]
Physics Songs? What madness is this?
It’s at http://www.haverford.edu/physics-astro/songs/… whatever it is! [via @vruba]
Tesla unveils the electric filling station.
Gigaom has the scoop on Tesla’s bid to change the face of America – by introducing a network of electric-car charging stations: Eectric car maker […]
Science Art: Simplest Mode of Development of Monads and Fungi from the Pellicle, 1871.
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”, by H. Bastian in […]
SONG: Particle
SONG: “Particle.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant (with apologies to Antonio Vivaldi). SOURCE: Based on “How Fungi Create the Amazon’s Clouds”, […]
The way you walk is just the way YOU walk. And the computer knows it.
Laboratory Equipment reveals how computers can now ID you by watching you walk: he National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has developed a walking gait recognition system […]
The mere anticipation of an interaction with a woman can impair men’s cognitive performance.
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: The […]
Medical science: Not all it’s cracked up to be
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 […]
Demotic dictionary, for ancient expressions.
New York Times reviews a new dictionary of a really old language: Demotic was one of the three scripts inscribed on the Rosetta stone, along […]
Message in a bottle. From 98 years ago.
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 […]