SONG: “Inside the Box”
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ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “CEOs and the Candle Problem”, Nature,… Read the rest “SONG: “Inside the Box””
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Crab chips for a living computer.
New Scientist blogs about the ultimate Rube Goldberg cybernetic machine – a computer that uses living crabs for processors:
… Read the rest “Crab chips for a living computer.”Yukio-Pegio Gunji of Kobe University in Japan and colleagues
Where intelligence is in the brain.
Medical Xpress sketches out a rough map of where intelligence actually resides:
… Read the rest “Where intelligence is in the brain.”Their study, published in Brain: A Journal of Neurology, is unique in that it enlisted an extraordinary
Cool nanotubes.
PhysOrg unveils the guts of the next supercomputer breakthrough – with carbon nanotubes that, curiously, make things nearby get hot while they stay cool:
… Read the rest “Cool nanotubes.”For the UMD researchers,
Armor-plated plankton getting weaker. And so is the planet.
The world’s future supply of chalk is threatened by global warming. That’s what I take away from this LiveScience report on how the souring of the ocean is weakening plankton… Read the rest “Armor-plated plankton getting weaker. And so is the planet.”
About those CEO bonuses: How financial incentives make us less creative.
Nature blogger Graham Morehead isn’t looking over any new research with this post, which makes it all the more remarkable. Since the early 1960s, we’ve known that offering… Read the rest “About those CEO bonuses: How financial incentives make us less creative.”
Science Art: Where the sun sets twice, by NASA / JPL-Caltech / R. Hunt
This is an image of a transit of Kepler 16. What that means is that, from where we’re sitting, it looks like the 16th planet discovered by the Kepler mission is moving… Read the rest “Science Art: Where the sun sets twice, by NASA / JPL-Caltech / R. Hunt”
Living snail batteries – and backyard spies.
Science Daily creeps us out with a military-funded project that’s turning snails into living batteries:
… Read the rest “Living snail batteries – and backyard spies.”The electrified snail, being a biotechnological living device, was able
The moon is not so lonely.
PhysOrg says our moon has lots of company – little “minimoons” are always stopping by for an orbital visit:
… Read the rest “The moon is not so lonely.”Mikael Granvik (formerly at UH Manoa and now at Helsinki),
Senators demand giant blimp. (No, really.)
Wired’s Danger Room takes a long look at the Blue Devil project – a 370-foot-long airship that, if some legislators have their way, will be flying over Afghanistan soon:
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Something is killing lots of dolphins in the Gulf.
Discovery News says the 714 reported dolphin deaths are just the tip of a much larger iceberg:
… Read the rest “Something is killing lots of dolphins in the Gulf.”NOAA declared the die-off an “Unusual Mortality Event” as per the Marine Mammal Protection
The world’s first winemakers were the world’s first beekeepers.
They lived in the Republic of Georgia, says Eurasianet.org, where scientists have just found 5,500-year-old honeypots:
… Read the rest “The world’s first winemakers were the world’s first beekeepers.”The honey stains found in the ceramic vessels, found 170 kilometers
Science Art: A red blood cell in a capillary, pancreatic tissue – TEM, by Louisa Howard
Happy blood. April fool blood. Pancreas blood. Turning sweetness to pep blood. Smiling blood.
Very, very enlarged blood.
Image from Wikimedia Commons.
World’s largest laser gets just a little larger (and closer to making fusion happen).
Scientific American makes me jealous of the physicists at Livermore’s National Ignition Facility, who get to utter orders like, “Now, my assistants! Fire the FUSION LASER!”… Read the rest “World’s largest laser gets just a little larger (and closer to making fusion happen).”
The hands ARE NOT CLEAN! (Or: how germs could cause OCD.)
New Scientist reveals a possible irony of microbiology. It could be that obsessive-compulsive disorder – in which the brain gets stuck in loops of repetitive, ritualistic activity,… Read the rest “The hands ARE NOT CLEAN! (Or: how germs could cause OCD.)”