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:
… Read the rest “A zeppelin for hunting space rocks.”On Thursday, the scientists flew
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”
AFP goes even farther than that. A common pesticide actually changes the structure of kids’ brains:
… Read the rest “Stupid pesticide lowers your kids’ IQs.”The study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examined New
PhysOrg says that porn is safer than religion… at least when it comes to online viruses:
… Read the rest “Holy viruses! (On your computer.)”Websites with religious or ideological themes were found to have triple the average number
New Scientist does its best to make nanomaterials sexy… like the new silicon stuff that’s stealing carbon’s limelight:
… Read the rest “Atom-thick silicon is the latest miracle STUFF.”Patrick Vogt of Berlin’s Technical
The Freakonomics guys look at what it means to be able to make memories from scratch:
… Read the rest “They really can remember for you, wholesale….”Psychologists Andrew Clark, Robert A. Nash, Gabrielle Fincham, and Giuliana Mazzoni conducted a three-stage
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.”
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.”
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?:
… Read the rest “Lovecraft report: Proto-organism found in remote lake sludge.”The elusive,
New Scientist discusses the future of the academy, in which teachers have been replaced by essay-grading robots:
… Read the rest “Robots make the grade on essay questions.”Grading software from nine manufacturers, which together cover 97 per
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!”
Scientific American veers into “No, really?” territory with news that cocaine ages your brain prematurely:
… Read the rest “Coke ages brains.”“As we age we all lose gray matter,” Karen Ersche of the Behavioral
…of killing endangered animals. Or at least Nature hypes up enough evidence to put Chinese medicine on trial:
… Read the rest “DNA evidence finds Chinese medicine guilty…”“There’s absolutely no honesty in the labelling of these products.
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.”
Physics World has a solution for the Pioneer Anomaly – the strange slowdown experienced by both Pioneer space probes as they passed beyond the farthest reach of the solar wind. It’s… Read the rest “Here’s why Pioneer slowed down…”
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