PhysOrg sets our sights on a big, wet, lively looking lake on Jupiter’s moon Europa:
… Read the rest “Great Lake Europa (where the aliens may swim)”The water could represent a potential habitat for life, and many more such lakes might exist throughout
From a series of zoological wall hangings (you remember these from classrooms, don’t you?) found on Scientific Illustrations.
Viennese teacher Dr. Paul Pfurtscheller… Read the rest “Science Art: Ophidia I. Tropidonotus natrix Tab 18, by Paul Pfurtscheller”
Yeah, those funky electronic gizmos that sit on your desk and look oh sparkly! and not much else? Science Daily reports that they can turn water into an antibiotic:
… Read the rest “Plasma balls kill cholera, E. coli and Mad Cow.”University of California,
NASA’s hiring:
… Read the rest “Ever wanted to be an astronaut?”Job Title:Astronaut Candidate
Department:National Aeronautics & Space Administration
Agency:Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
Job Announcement Number:JS12A0001
Scientific American looks over the mystery surrounding autism – and why, less than 75 years after it was first identified, the syndrome seems to be growing:
… Read the rest “The autism puzzle.”Studies attributed it
Discover magazine’s Discoblog brings to light a study linking the feeling of being bored with the feeling of entitlement:
… Read the rest “Yes, precious snowflake, you do deserve to be bored.”“All people have to complete dull tasks, but individuals
That’s how The Telegraph puts it. “Boffins” (a lovely word) helped the band Marconi Union design a song so relaxing, you shouldn’t put it on your car stereo:
… Read the rest “Scientists and Manchester band create world’s most relaxing song.”Dr
“Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson answering the… Read the rest “And now, a word from Neil deGrasse Tyson…”
Wired says we should think about staying indoors for a while, because the probe Russia sent to collect samples from the Martian moon isn’t going to make it that far. It’s expected… Read the rest “Russian Mars probe crashing back to Earth.”
That’s the idea behind a study by University of Oxford and the University of Auckland researchers in PhysOrg. The scientists found that our ability to live in lots of different social… Read the rest “Humans: The *sociable* ape?”
National Geographic reports that an entire genus of African antelopes – represented by the hirola, last species in genus Beatragus – is about to follow the dodo and the marsupial… Read the rest “Antelope genus about to disappear.”
Scientific American interviews Brian David Johnson, Intel’s “future caster,” who combines science fiction with software and hardware design to predict what’s… Read the rest “The professional prophet of Intel.”
Discovery is looking up to a way to get satellites into orbit using balloons instead of rockets:
… Read the rest “Riding airships into orbit.”…[T]he now-retired NASA space shuttle was the Hindenburg of the space age. Like the
Science explores why the noise of nails on a chalkboard is so awful:
… Read the rest “Noise hurts. Why?”As they will report next week at the Acoustical Society of America conference in San Diego, California, [Michael Oehler
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