Learn in your sleep. With your nose….
Nature sniffs out a technique for using smells to pick up new information – and new emotional responses – in your sleep: Anat Arzi of […]
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Our languages are Turkish. Virally so.
The BBC reveals that English (and just about every other European language) descends from an ancestor that was not Russian, as was the popular belief, […]
Science Art: Jungle Allure by Diane Walker
This painting was one of the winners of the Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest 2007, a mathematical art contest. I suppose nowadays, fractal art seems […]
SONG: “Hi There! (We’re Robots From Earth)”
SONG: “Hi There! (We’re Robots From Earth)” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Mars rover Curiosity zaps ‘Coronation’ rock […]
Our ROBOT is SHOOTING LASERS at MARS.
How can Christian Science Monitor be so calm about this? Curiosity is on an alien planet vaporizing stuff with lasers: NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has […]
Titan is making DNA. Or could be.
The Daily Galaxy says Saturn’s big moon, Titan, could be a life-making machine: Saturn’s moon Titan has many of the components for life without liquid […]
Monday’s no worse than Tuesday, say grim-faced scientists.
BBC dispels the myth that Monday’s any more miserable than any other weekday (with the exception, of course, of Friday): US investigators who looked at […]
Science Art: Orbits of the Planets by Asa Smith, 1850
This hypnotic image seems to have traveled out of Asa Smith’s book, into David Rumsey’s cartography collection and from there into a Zazzle poster collection […]
Mutant butterflies of Fukushima.
Tecca reports on the 50 percent mutation rate in insects near the nuclear site: Tens of thousands of residents were displaced and officials assured the […]
Bill Gates to build a better toilet.
Mac fans should have a *field day* coming up with headlines for this ABC.net.au piece on Bill Gates’ noble new quest – to reinvent the […]
Heroin: now with all the pain relief, and none of the addiction.
That’s the tempting pitch made by a team from the University of Adelaide and University of Colorado, who’ve come up with a way to block […]
New species discovered… on Flickr.
NPR takes a close look at an eye-catching insect… a new species of lacewing entomologists discovered on Flickr: [Shaun] Winterton, a senior entomologist at the […]
Spider web glass protects birds on the Holy Island
I can’t outdo the BBC’s headline on this story about a beautiful application for a strange, new material: A lookout tower at Lindisfarne has installed […]
Science Art: Reptile Skeletons and Skulls, from Allgemeine Naturgeschichte für alle Stände, 1835
They look even more reptilian from the *inside*. This image was part of one of those wonderful 19th-century German encyclopedias, but I found it in […]
If you were an MIT math student, you’d fix the lottery too.
Boston Globe blows the lid off an M.I.T. syndicate that appears to have made a cool $8 million fixing the lottery: [Massachusetts Inspector General Gregory […]