Chimp retirement plan.
Nature echoes the call for the National Institutes of Health to create a humane retirement plan for their primate research assistants: Last December, a report […]
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Archaeologists: DeSoto WUZ HEER.
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 […]
Talking gloves translate sign language to speech.
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 […]
They found threads of dark matter
…spinning between clusters of galaxies. That’s how the Christian Science Monitor describes the remarkable discovery of the scaffolding that holds together the universe: Three-dimensional astronomical […]
Science Art: Spilled Paint, Landsat 7, 2003.
Click to embiggen vastly This image is from the Earth As Art 3 collection, and shows the Great Salt Desert of Iran, the Dasht-e Kavir, […]
Parasites linked to suicides.
Scientific American’s “Science Sushi” blog rolls up some recent research connecting cat-parasite Toxoplasma gondii with human suicides: in Denmark, serum antibody levels for Toxoplasma gondii […]
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 […]
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 […]