Cornell is offering the opportunity of a lifetime for an astronaut fan:
… Read the rest “Live in Hawaii. Pretend it’s Mars. Eat space food. Get paid.”We are seeking participants for a 120 day Mars exploration analogue mission (Hawaii Space Exploration Analogue
An angioma is a benign tumor. This one is on a finger.
Image made by Dr. Michel Royon, apparently by using digital subtraction angiography – taking an X-ray of some… Read the rest “Science Art: Angiome Annulaire, by Dr. Michel Royon”
And yes, it’s what you expect. LiveScience reports on the giant penis that’s redefining world history:
… Read the rest “New World’s oldest rock carving: “Little Horny Man.””The time frame during which humans first reached the Americas remains
Or so the Belfast Telegraph says, with a report on scientists devising a document outlining dolphin rights:
… Read the rest “Dolphins are people too.”A small group of experts in philosophy, conservation and dolphin behaviour
Nature eases no one’s mind when the revered journal explains it’s actually more efficient for some squid fly than to swim:
… Read the rest “Flying squid. Yeah, that’s a relaxing concept.”Squid of many species have been seen to ‘fly’
Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen did away with Terra Australis Incognito for good in December 1911. (It was more than a decade later that he went after Santa Claus in his… Read the rest “Science Art: Amundsen Expedition Map of Antarctica, 1911-1912”
SONG: “Antarctica Awakes!” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Scientists close to entering Vostok,… Read the rest “SONG: “Antarctica Awakes!””
New York Times takes a quick look at how retailers virtually read our minds by clocking all the little details:
… Read the rest “Corporate telepathy”There are, however, some brief periods in a person’s life when old routines
That’s how ISS Commander Daniel Burbank describes his interaction with Robonaut 2 yesterday. PhysOrg has more on the space station’s new, robot crew member:
… Read the rest ““The first human-humanoid handshake in space.””On Wednesday,
BBC reports that the Large Hadron Collider is driving toward a new breakthrough. All the physicists have to do is put the pedal to the metal:
… Read the rest “Large Hadron researchers: “MORE POWER!””Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
PhysOrg has bad news for the Gulf of Mexico. Oil spills are even more toxic than we thought:
… Read the rest “Toxic oil is toxic.”The study, spearheaded by the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory in collaboration with NOAA, looked
TG Daily reports on a new hope for clearing up our old landfills – by feeding the plastic to a very special rain-forest mushroom:
… Read the rest “Plastic-eating mushrooms clean us up.”Pestalotiopsis microspora, found in the jungles of
This device paraded at the inaugurations of President Grover Cleveland and the Statue of Liberty.
It also put out fires, nobly, before the turn of the last century.… Read the rest “Science Art: “Engine of the Veteran Association” from Our Firemen: A History of the New York Fire Department, 1899.”
The brain-zapping process broken down, in an Informed Consent video:
And you can always try making your own device….
New Scientist reawakens that old dream of turning on the creative juices as if you were turning on a tap… or flipping a switch:
… Read the rest “Zapping into flow.”I am in a lab in Carlsbad, California, in pursuit of an elusive
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