Squid muscle is the new black (and red and green and blue….)
Wired takes a leap into the cephashionable world of cephalopod textiles to give a sneak peak at next season’s color-changing squid-muscle shirts: “We have taken […]
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A zeppelin for hunting space rocks.
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: […]
Science Art: Bosch Magneto ad, Aeronautics, July, 1912
Click to embiggen In 1912, aeronautics was a sport. And the athletes had to start their engines somehow… so Bosch, now known mostly for their […]
Stupid pesticide lowers your kids’ IQs.
AFP goes even farther than that. A common pesticide actually changes the structure of kids’ brains: The study in the Proceedings of the National Academy […]
Holy viruses! (On your computer.)
PhysOrg says that porn is safer than religion… at least when it comes to online viruses: Websites with religious or ideological themes were found to […]
Atom-thick silicon is the latest miracle STUFF.
New Scientist does its best to make nanomaterials sexy… like the new silicon stuff that’s stealing carbon’s limelight: Patrick Vogt of Berlin’s Technical University in […]
They really can remember for you, wholesale….
The Freakonomics guys look at what it means to be able to make memories from scratch: Psychologists Andrew Clark, Robert A. Nash, Gabrielle Fincham, and […]
There’s a new subatomic particle.
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 […]
Science Art: CERN-EX-1107175 01 by the LHCB Team at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.
Click to embiggen The formal name for this image: LHCb: Event display presented at the EPS-HEP 2011 conference showing a B0s meson decaying into a […]
Lovecraft report: Proto-organism found in remote lake sludge.
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 […]
Robots make the grade on essay questions.
New Scientist discusses the future of the academy, in which teachers have been replaced by essay-grading robots: Grading software from nine manufacturers, which together cover […]
You will remember… FEAR!
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 […]
Coke ages brains.
Scientific American veers into “No, really?” territory with news that cocaine ages your brain prematurely: “As we age we all lose gray matter,” Karen Ersche […]
DNA evidence finds Chinese medicine guilty…
…of killing endangered animals. Or at least Nature hypes up enough evidence to put Chinese medicine on trial: “There’s absolutely no honesty in the labelling […]
Science Art: Amerique, from the Larousse pour tous encyclopedia, 1909.
Click to embiggen This is what America meant for Claude Auge, who edited Le Larousse pour tous nouveau dictionnaire encyclopedique in 1909. Eskimos and tapirs. […]