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”)
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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
BBC reports on neurologists who’ve managed to not only create brain cells in the lab – but to make Parkinson’s-diseased cells from scratch:
… Read the rest “Home-cooked Parkinson’s.”The breakthrough means
Wired is all aglow over a new wireless transmission system that uses light instead of radio waves:
… Read the rest “Tune into the li-fi.”Using off-the-shelf electronics, he can stream videos using an ordinary light bulb fitted
Irish Times reveals the link between lousy decision-making and the hormone linked to lust and aggression:
… Read the rest “Testosterone and bad ideas.”Dr Nick Wright and colleagues at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at
BBC News ponders what it means for our bodies when Stanford University professors start shuffling around our cellular building blocks. Not turning stem cells into other kinds of cells,… Read the rest “Skin becomes brain”
Let us take a moment, while contemplating the sleek engineering of the quiet engine sonic inlet, to consider that tie. That man is not a model. He is, in all likelihood, an engineer. An actual… Read the rest “Science Art: Quiet Engine Sonic Inlet, NASA Glenn Research Center”
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