The Atlantic reveals the fluid dynamics of deadly mob disasters that shows how crowds can be so blindly powerful:
… Read the rest “Fear of crowds – it might not be so irrational.”“It happens like magic,” says Dirk Helbing, a professor in
Here’s an ape with plenty of character – plenty of, dare I think it, soul.
This is not the first image from Brehm’s Tierleben (or “Brehm’s Life of Animals”)… Read the rest “Science Art: Chimpanzee, from Brehm’s Tierleben, 1860s.”
Scientific American editorializes on the planetary implications of NASA’s budget being cut:
… Read the rest “Planets stay in the dark – for want of the money to see them.”The president’s proposed budget for 2013 includes drastic cutbacks to planetary
Nature echoes the call for the National Institutes of Health to create a humane retirement plan for their primate research assistants:
… Read the rest “Chimp retirement plan.”Last December, a report from the US Institute of Medicine
The Wilmington, NC, Star News celebrates a rare Floridian trace of a Hernan De Soto’s march from Tampa Bay up through Tennessee, into Arkansas and down to New Orleans. The 16th century… Read the rest “Archaeologists: DeSoto WUZ HEER.”
TechCrunch is captivated by one of the six finalists at Microsoft’s Imagine Cup in Sydney – a Ukranian team of student whizzes who have invented a pair of sign-language gloves… Read the rest “Talking gloves translate sign language to speech.”
…spinning between clusters of galaxies. That’s how the Christian Science Monitor describes the remarkable discovery of the scaffolding that holds together the universe… Read the rest “They found threads of dark matter”
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This image is from the Earth As Art 3 collection, and shows the Great Salt Desert of Iran, the Dasht-e Kavir, as seen from space.
It’s a nearly 30,000 square … Read the rest “Science Art: Spilled Paint, Landsat 7, 2003.”
Scientific American’s “Science Sushi” blog rolls up some recent research connecting cat-parasite Toxoplasma gondii with human suicides:
… Read the rest “Parasites linked to suicides.”in Denmark, serum antibody
If you’re the kind of person who reads these updates here, you already know that CERN has come out and said they’ve found the Higgs boson.
What does that mean?
Simplest version:… Read the rest “It’s a boson!”
Discover takes a close look at a monster smaller than the tip of a ballpoint pen. It’s the world’s smallest fly, a kind of fly called a phorid, and its babies eat the brains of tiny… Read the rest “Newly discovered fly proves you don’t have to be big to be TERRIFYING.”
Boston Globe reports on CERN scientists being almost as definite as particle physicists can be, stating that the subatomic particle that makes matter matter seems to have shown up at the… Read the rest “Higgs boson “almost certainly exists””
Reuters has the cheery news that no matter what we do, ocean levels will be rising:
… Read the rest “Check the lifeboats or learn to swim. The flood is coming.”More than 180 countries are negotiating a new global climate pact which will come into force by 2020 and force
Scientific American takes a page from the Acme corporation and introduces the world’s first battery in an aerosol can:
… Read the rest “Spray-on battery turns *anything* into a power source.”The paint-on battery, like all lithium ion batteries, consists
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