It’s a boson!
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 […]
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Newly discovered fly proves you don’t have to be big to be TERRIFYING.
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 […]
Higgs boson “almost certainly exists”
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 […]
Check the lifeboats or learn to swim. The flood is coming.
Reuters has the cheery news that no matter what we do, ocean levels will be rising: More than 180 countries are negotiating a new global […]
Science Art: Fig. 4, Sketch of skull of Desmatochelys lowi, from Fieldiana: Geology, Vol. 14, 1960.
A sea turtle from the end of the age of dinosaurs. Image from Fieldiana: Geology, Vol. 14, 1960
Spray-on battery turns *anything* into a power source.
Scientific American takes a page from the Acme corporation and introduces the world’s first battery in an aerosol can: The paint-on battery, like all lithium […]
New Mayan text: Party like it’s 2012.
LiveScience reports on the second Mayan text ever discovered that refers to the famous end of the Mayan calendar. They didn’t think the world was […]
Ultimate wireless. In A VORTEX.
The aptly named ExtremeTech BLOWS THE LID off connection speeds with the HEAD-SPINNING news that American and Israeli researchers have sent 2.5 terabits of data […]
Ben Ames wins the Flame Challenge. He shows how fire works.
Remember the Flame Challenge? Alan Alda’s quest to find someone who can explain at an elementary-school level what a flame is? Well, an American quantum […]
Science Art: Le Moustier Neanderthals, by Charles L. Knight.
Click to embiggen We’ve featured prehistoric illustrator Charles L. Knight on these pages before. While he’s best known for his dinosaur portraiture, here he moved […]
SONG: Tired (A Neanderthal Complains)
SONG: “Tired (A Neanderthal Complains).” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Neanderthals may have been first human species to […]
Weird carbon goes *plasmonic*.
Graphene, as we all now know, is the latest strange form of carbon to wow material scientists with its unusual properties. Well, New Scientist shows […]
Mutant women have super vision.
But do they need supervision? Discover reports on the the rare humans who can see colors the rest of us can’t: Living among us are […]
Musical selection. (Or how to evolve a hit.)
Science News examines one system for making music – by taking noise and using thumbs-up or thumbs-down votes to refine it: Inspired in part by […]
Mother’s milk really is safe – it kills HIV.
New Scientist makes one more argument for breast-feeding, with research that shows breast milk seems to wipe out the virus that causes AIDS: Previous research […]