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Squid muscle is the new black (and red and green and blue….)

8 May 2012 grant 0

Wired takes a leap into the cephashionable world of cephalopod textiles to give a sneak peak at next season’s color-changing squid-muscle shirts:

“We have taken inspiration

… Read the rest “Squid muscle is the new black (and red and green and blue….)”

A zeppelin for hunting space rocks.

7 May 2012 grant 0

No, McClatchy ain’t making this up. Members of SETI and NASA are using an airship to seek traces of meteorites – and, possibly, alien life:

On Thursday, the scientists flew

… Read the rest “A zeppelin for hunting space rocks.”

Science Art: Bosch Magneto ad, Aeronautics, July, 1912

6 May 2012 grant 0


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In 1912, aeronautics was a sport.

And the athletes had to start their engines somehow… so Bosch, now known mostly for their spark plugs, made magnetos. And summoned… Read the rest “Science Art: Bosch Magneto ad, Aeronautics, July, 1912”

Stupid pesticide lowers your kids’ IQs.

4 May 2012 grant 1

AFP goes even farther than that. A common pesticide actually changes the structure of kids’ brains:

The study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examined New

… Read the rest “Stupid pesticide lowers your kids’ IQs.”

Holy viruses! (On your computer.)

3 May 2012 grant 0

PhysOrg says that porn is safer than religion… at least when it comes to online viruses:

Websites with religious or ideological themes were found to have triple the average number

… Read the rest “Holy viruses! (On your computer.)”

Atom-thick silicon is the latest miracle STUFF.

2 May 2012 grant 0

New Scientist does its best to make nanomaterials sexy… like the new silicon stuff that’s stealing carbon’s limelight:

Patrick Vogt of Berlin’s Technical

… Read the rest “Atom-thick silicon is the latest miracle STUFF.”

They really can remember for you, wholesale….

1 May 2012 grant 0

The Freakonomics guys look at what it means to be able to make memories from scratch:

Psychologists Andrew Clark, Robert A. Nash, Gabrielle Fincham, and Giuliana Mazzoni conducted a three-stage

… Read the rest “They really can remember for you, wholesale….”

There’s a new subatomic particle.

30 April 2012 grant 0

And it’s a USB! Well, that’s what Science Daily says it’s made of, anyway. It’s formally called a “Xi_b^*” and it’s just been spotted at the… Read the rest “There’s a new subatomic particle.”

Science Art: CERN-EX-1107175 01 by the LHCB Team at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.

29 April 2012 grant 0


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The formal name for this image: LHCb: Event display presented at the EPS-HEP 2011 conference showing a B0s meson decaying into a ?+ and ?- pair.

It’s what happens … Read the rest “Science Art: CERN-EX-1107175 01 by the LHCB Team at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.”

Lovecraft report: Proto-organism found in remote lake sludge.

27 April 2012 grant 0

PhysOrg calls it “man’s remotest relative,” a living thing that has no branch on the tree of life. Why can’t they just call a shoggoth a shoggoth, man?:

The elusive,

… Read the rest “Lovecraft report: Proto-organism found in remote lake sludge.”

Robots make the grade on essay questions.

26 April 2012 grant 0

New Scientist discusses the future of the academy, in which teachers have been replaced by essay-grading robots:

Grading software from nine manufacturers, which together cover 97 per

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You will remember… FEAR!

25 April 2012 grant 0

Science News chills us to the bone with the latest breakthrough from Mark Mayford and Susumu Tonegawa, neuroscientists at Scripps and MIT, respectively. They’ve been able to manufacture… Read the rest “You will remember… FEAR!”

Coke ages brains.

24 April 2012 grant 0

Scientific American veers into “No, really?” territory with news that cocaine ages your brain prematurely:

“As we age we all lose gray matter,” Karen Ersche of the Behavioral

… Read the rest “Coke ages brains.”

DNA evidence finds Chinese medicine guilty…

23 April 2012 grant 0

…of killing endangered animals. Or at least Nature hypes up enough evidence to put Chinese medicine on trial:

“There’s absolutely no honesty in the labelling of these products.

… Read the rest “DNA evidence finds Chinese medicine guilty…”

Science Art: Amerique, from the Larousse pour tous encyclopedia, 1909.

23 April 2012 grant 1


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This is what America meant for Claude Auge, who edited Le Larousse pour tous nouveau dictionnaire encyclopedique in 1909.

Eskimos and tapirs.

You can browse through your… Read the rest “Science Art: Amerique, from the Larousse pour tous encyclopedia, 1909.”

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