Check this out: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2012/03/songs-torn-from-science-headlines.html Forget your Variety and your Rolling Stone. The Guild of Scientific Troubadours just received positive notice from a writer for New […]
Forbes takes us one step closer to the Facebook-dominated society with a Northern Illinois University study that finds a quick social media review works better […]
Wired reveals how MIT made this cool magic trick happen – by using a little bit electricity to convert heat into light: The LED produces […]
This engraving shows a bunch of humans spearing a sea turtle. But wait! A manatee looks on in terror, clutching her child! And thinks back […]
Associated Press goes deep inside one of America’s most macabre jobs – studying how efficiently vultures consume dead bodies: Experienced investigators would normally have interpreted […]
BBC reveals a Japanese project that combines biology, engineering and beauty – spinning violin strings out of spider silk: Shigeyoshi Osaki of Japan’s Nara Medical […]
Over the transom this morning, I just got word of an amazing science-music-art project that combined six University College London biomedical researchers with six bands […]
Over at BoingBoing, Cory Doctorow waxes enthusiastic about the process of zapping your brain into a creative “flow” state: The “thinking cap” is something like […]
The Independent reports on one of those weird medical side effect whodathunkits (like Rogaine and Viagra coming from blood pressure medications). Minocycline, a drug usually […]
Click to embiggen This is the Forth Bridge, spanning the famous Firth of Forth (on the way to Fife)*. And for Archibald Williams, editor of […]
Technology Review cuts out all the chatter with their lowdown on an honest-to-God silence ray: Today, Kazutaka Kurihara at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial […]
NPR describes the joy of explorers finding “extinct” tree lobsters – the world’s largest known stick insects, once native only to Australia’s Lord Howe Island […]
I’m not sure how I feel about the science behind this, but it’s probably worth a closer look. LA Times reports on a new study […]
The Atlantic reveals just how bad it is for you, your family and your company when you’re stuck working for a bad boss: The more […]
Cornell is offering the opportunity of a lifetime for an astronaut fan: We are seeking participants for a 120 day Mars exploration analogue mission (Hawaii […]
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