Wired is bursting a few bubbles by reporting that Gliese 581g – the first habitable planet discovered around another star – may not exist at all:
… Read the rest “I’ll have to unpack my rocket ship.”Two more planets, including
ArsTechnica explores the way music intoxicates us – with dopamine:
… Read the rest “Music makes us high.”To learn more about the music/brain/stimulation process, the McGill researchers followed subjects through
One that hits close to my heart. University of Texas researchers have come up with a way to zap tinnitus:
… Read the rest “Zap the ringing away.”Researchers Dr. Michael Kilgard and Dr. Navzer Engineer from The University of Texas
The Mars Rover Opportunity considers the textures of the Santa Maria crater on its 2,746th day on Mars. There are no footprints in that sand. There may never have been footprints… Read the rest “Science Art: PIA13755: Textures of ‘Santa Maria’ Crater, Sol 2476 , Mars Rover Opportunity & NASA.”
Scientific American paints an eldritch picture of what lies at the edges of a distant star… a world of dim, twilit grotesqueries arranged in a tenebrous spectrum of shadowy things… Read the rest “Black Plants in Twilight Eternal.”
As if American football players don’t get enough flack from rugby-playing nations, Wired is reporting that their helmets are going electronic:
… Read the rest “Smart Helmets”Now, according to The Washington
Astronomers have finally confirmed, NPR reports, the discovery of the very first Earth-like planet somewhere else in space:
… Read the rest “Cousin planet.”Astronomers have found hundreds of planets outside our solar
The Guardian knows where the world’s largest sea turtles go:
… Read the rest “Following leatherbacks.”Matthew Witt, a researcher at the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at the University of Exeter, led the project. “Despite
It’s a real turn-off, according to PhysOrg.com. They found that a chemical in women’s tears kills the mood for men – even if the crying woman is nowhere to be found:
… Read the rest “Scent of tears.”But
An illustration by Maria Sibylla Graff Merian, daughter of an engraver, step-daughter of a painter and careful observer of the natural world. She carefully documented the steps through… Read the rest “Science Art: Alligator and Snake by Maria Sibylla Merian”
Amid all the fish kills and rising gas prices, here’s a feel-good story for the season from the kindly folks at Scientific American. It seems that thanks to freaky weather, we’ll… Read the rest “Hungry season.”
Beaks, sure. Talons? Terrifying. But how about Eurekalert.org’s report on prehistoric birds using their wings as clubs:
… Read the rest “Combat wings”“No animal has ever evolved anything quite like
This isn’t a discovery so much as a great resource (and wonderful source of visuals), but you should really look inside The Cell Image Library… and look inside your cells.
Really.… Read the rest “Look inside.”
NPR takes us on an audio tour of the Large Hadron Collider with a physicist who’s translating subatomic particles into sounds:
… Read the rest “Subatomic sound.”“I have some musician friends that I was talking
RISD president John Maeda, writing in Seed Magazine, makes the case for including art education in our quest for better science:
… Read the rest “Art as science.”Public commitments to STEM—science, technology, engineering,
Copyright © 2026 | WordPress Theme by MH Themes
