From the Wikimedia Commons description:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Ion Engine Test Firing, NASA-JPL”This image of a xenon ion engine, photographed through a port of the vacuum chamber where it was being tested at NASA’s Jet
CleanTechnica announces some fuel-saving technology that’s making its way from hybrids to standard automobiles:
… Read the rest “Stop your engines (for just a second).”Start-stop is a fuel saving approach mainly associated with
The Telegraph reports on new brain studies that find a difference between “liberal” brains and “conservative” brains, equating the old-ways-are-best mindset… Read the rest “Conservative amygdalas are concerned.”
Varroa mites, the BBC reminds us, are one of the worst enemies honeybees face in these difficult days. But now, there’s a genetic front opening in the war to save the hives:
… Read the rest “Gene weapon vs. bee killers”To tackle
Wired examines the economy of our antibiotic culture:
… Read the rest “80 percent of America’s antibiotics go to livestock.”Two weeks ago, I broke the news of a new FDA report that estimated for the first time the amount of antibiotics sold in the United States
Image from Wikimedia Commons, showing the winter solstice (for the northern hemisphere) at noon in the Central European time zone. Labeled in Latin.
Night is retreating!
SONG: “Planet of Diamonds”. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Scientists Discover the First Carbon-Rich… Read the rest “SONG: Planet of Diamonds”
Science News spreads the news of an underwater arms race. Sonar specialist T. Aran Mooney of Woods Hole has discovered that squid are invisible to sonar underwater:
… Read the rest “Invisible squid”…[B]y putting
No, it’s not the concept of living computer programs zooming around circuits on motorcycles made of light. It’s the way, motherboard.tv reveals, a rather clever designer… Read the rest “Tron’s (real) cultural legacy.”
PsychCentral is turning on to the real, measurable benefits that the clubbiest of club drugs has on schizophrenia, autism and other disorders:
… Read the rest “Ecstasy for autism.”Some scientists believe that the drug MDMA
From Mammalian Anatomy With Special Reference to the Cat by Alvin Davison, Ph.D., 1927. Found on archive.org.
Hyperspace professional Michio Kaku, writing in the BigThink blog, is thinking big about the most precious world in the universe:
… Read the rest “Planet of diamonds”The planet, called WASP-12b was observed with NASA’s
NASA wants a few good space songs.
Really. Just like this site, only, you know, on a much bigger scale (with a slightly narrower focus).
If you got ’em, send ’em to the space scientists!
I bet they tasted better than babies. Discovery explores the frankly terrifying implications of a new fossil discovery:
… Read the rest “Hobbit-eating storks.”Named Leptoptilos robustus, this newly discovered stork was similar
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