Pesticides make bees… picky.
PhysOrg finds something weird about the nicotine-based pesticides that seem to be making trouble for bees. Neonicotinoids make them picky eaters: The UC San Diego […]
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MIT: Facebook is about to kill the Internet. (Seriously?)
MIT’s Technology Review is not a publication ordinarily given to hyperbole. So it’s a little distracting when their web desk declares that Facebook is heading […]
Putty fixes bones like chair legs.
The health desk at The Atlantic might be looking a little bit like a wood shop, thanks to their reporting on the medical marvels of […]
Turning pollution into gold.
PhysOrg gets me all het up over this modern-day alchemist who’s figured out how to transmute greenhouse gases into useful materials… and energy: Making carbon-based […]
When bad science happens…
…bad consequences follow. Forbes traces the problems with the most authoritative “we can cure the gay out of you” study: [Dr. Robert L.] Spitzer now […]
Science Art: Paillettes de glace eclairées par les rayons du soleil observées en ballon, by M. Albert Tissandier
Click to embiggen When you’re a pioneering aviator, it pays to have a brother who’s an illustrator. From the Tissandier collection in the Library of […]
Doctor, make me forever young.
Science Daily reaches out its withered hands to hold up the promise of a viral cure for aging: Researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Research […]
I can honestly conceive of nothing less pleasant than this.
Discover launches a thousand new phobia cases with their expose (and I cannot do better than their headline here) Hidden Epidemic: Tapeworms in the Brain: […]
According to Public Enemy, I should now be very afraid…
National Geographic unveils Kepler’s latest discovery – a really black planet: Orbiting only about three million miles out from its star, the Jupiter-size gas giant […]
We only ever glimpse things in flashes….
Medical Xpress takes a closer look at the hazy, flickering way we really perceive the world: The [University of Glasgow] researchers studied a prominent brain […]
Science Art: Fig. 9, (electrolysis of water) from Chemistry, 1876.
This is how to get hydrogen and oxygen from water – acidulated water – by using a Grove’s battery and two platinum wires. And “decomposing” […]
SONG: “This Stupid War”
SONG: “This Stupid War.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Pesticide exposure linked to brain changes: study”, AFP, via […]
Silly putty pothole repair
Science magazine shores up our infrastructure with a report on how a kid’s toy can save our streets: …[U]ndergraduates at Case Western Reserve University in […]
Magnetic bacteria make lively hard drives.
New Scientist has a knack for bringing weird science to life. In this case, electronic germ-based computers: Hard drives are usually made by “sputtering”, in […]
Blood test for breast cancer.
The Telegraph (yes, I know, but…) gives hope to the potentially millions of women fed up with the regular ritual of mammograms with news that […]