Here’s why Pioneer slowed down…
Physics World has a solution for the Pioneer Anomaly – the strange slowdown experienced by both Pioneer space probes as they passed beyond the farthest […]
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You are a hive mind.
Scientific American is seething with the swarm of possibilities that bring every human decision down to the level of bees: To Dr. Thomas Seeley, a […]
NASA wants your Mars ideas.
The space administration needs YOU – and your vision of what we should do on Mars: “This is a two-way capability open to anyone,” says […]
Darwinian pediatrics: Painkillers are *counterproductive.*
I think I’m much more sympathetic to this viewpoint than might at first appear. New Scientist reports on medical philosophy that holds that when kids […]
Science Art:Dugesia Anatomy Schematic, by Andreas Neudecker
This is a flatworm. A German flatworm. It may be a distant cousin of the planarians that hypnotized Dutch artist M.C. Escher with their two-dimensional […]
SONG: “Inside the Box”
SONG: “Inside the Box.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “CEOs and the Candle Problem”, Nature, “A Mad Hemorrhage” […]
Crab chips for a living computer.
New Scientist blogs about the ultimate Rube Goldberg cybernetic machine – a computer that uses living crabs for processors: Yukio-Pegio Gunji of Kobe University in […]
Where intelligence is in the brain.
Medical Xpress sketches out a rough map of where intelligence actually resides: Their study, published in Brain: A Journal of Neurology, is unique in that […]
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: For […]
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 […]
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 […]
Science Art: Where the sun sets twice, by NASA / JPL-Caltech / R. Hunt
Click to embiggen This is an image of a transit of Kepler 16. What that means is that, from where we’re sitting, it looks like […]
Living snail batteries – and backyard spies.
Science Daily creeps us out with a military-funded project that’s turning snails into living batteries: 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: Mikael Granvik (formerly at UH Manoa […]
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 […]