Wired gets all hot about some of our solar system’s OTHER moons – specifically, the strange magnetism of the magma oceans of Io:
… Read the rest “Echoes of the magma oceans of Io”The magma sea is buried deep beneath the surface
Just in time for summer, National Geographic lets us know that someone left the sprinklers on way up there:
… Read the rest “Star sprinklers.”The discovery suggests that protostars may be seeding the universe with water.
It must be strange to work in a facility like the ones Sky News just reported on – the places where genetically modified cows produce human breast milk:
… Read the rest “Mother cow.”The milk produced by the transgenic
I never realized there was doubt about the tales of vicious headhunting tribes in South America until I read this Discovery News item. Apparently, they’ve just gotten around to DNA-testing… Read the rest “The shrunken head considered.”
Like foam on a wave, I guess – or a kind of magnetic barrier. NASA says they’re surprised at what the space probes are turning up:
… Read the rest “Voyager finds “froth” at the border of the solar system.”“The Voyager probes appear to have entered
Mmm. Borer beetles. Or, more precisely, Wallace’s long-horn beetle.
Beetle-obsessed millionaire James Thomson’s book is on archive.org, but I found it via [Scientific… Read the rest “Science Art: Batocera Wallacei, from Archives entomologiques ou Recueil contenant des illustrations d’insectes nouveaux our rares by James Thomson, 1857”
I know I already kinda wrote a song about this (and isopods), but still – the Mother Nature Network has joined the voices marveling over the fact that the closer we look at Antarctica,… Read the rest “Fertile Antarctica”
The New Republic looks at the science of choice… and the mental costs of not being able to afford much:
… Read the rest “One scary reason why the poor stay poor.”In the 1990s, social psychologists developed a theory of “depletable” self-control.
Not people hunting chimpanzees, Scientific American reports, but chimpanzees hunting monkeys:
… Read the rest “Chimpanzee hunters drive endangered monkeys to the brink.”According to a study published May 9 in the American Journal of Primatology, this is the
BBC reports on a team of senior heroes, coming out of retirement – literally – to fight the radiation at Fukushima power station:
… Read the rest “Skilled Veterans Corps heads into the fire.”The retired engineer is reporting back for
Scientists studying Mexico’s family of sideshow entertainers – all of whom are covered head-to-foot in hair – and similar family in China have made a breakthrough,… Read the rest ““Werewolf family” gene discovered.”
This is an anomalocaridid – a really big, really old shrimp-like critter – named Laggania cambria. These were as big as it got in the Cambrian period, an age… Read the rest “Science Art: Laggania cambria, statue by Espen Horn (photo by H. Zell)”
Time asks probing questions of the the researchers who studied all the porn on the internet:
… Read the rest “Rule #34 – and what it says about us.”Why did you decide to analyze online porn searches?
I’m a computational neuroscientist.
This ink-on-paper drawing of Saturn’s moon is one of the 70 pieces in the new “NASA/Art: 50 Years of Exploration” exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum. Others… Read the rest “Science Art (from new NASA exhibit): Titan, by Daniel Zeller (2005)”
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