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ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “Super squid sex organ discovered”… Read the rest “SONG: nobody else can hear”
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How NASA finds oil.
Unfortunately, as NPR reveals, we’re not talking about the kind that’s still safely underground:
… Read the rest “How NASA finds oil.”The NASA Earth Observatory explains that since ocean waters are never perfectly
X in uniform.
MAPS has published a study confirming that MDMA really does work in treating post-traumatic stress disorder:
… Read the rest “X in uniform.”Participants treated with a combination of MDMA and psychotherapy saw clinically
If you love a sewage-eating robot, set it free.
So New Scientist recommends in a new report on an artificial gut that allows robots to become self-sustaining:
… Read the rest “If you love a sewage-eating robot, set it free.”[F]ood-munching robots have been demonstrated in the past, often generating
Read in color!
New Scientist teaches you how to make yourself synaesthetic:
… Read the rest “Read in color!”Olympia Colizoli at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and colleagues… gave seven volunteers a novel
Science Art: The Microwave Sky, Planck Telescope, 2010
This image – a composite view of, well, everything – was made by the European Space Agency’s Planck Telescope, an orbiting observatory assigned to… Read the rest “Science Art: The Microwave Sky, Planck Telescope, 2010”
Get up. Really.
New York Times quotes research that proves exercise won’t save you. It’s the sitting that kills you:
… Read the rest “Get up. Really.”…[S]cientists from the University of South Carolina and the Pennington
To cure my wife, you want to transplant my *what*?
New York Times gets to the fundamentals of the strange world of microbes-as-medicine:
… Read the rest “To cure my wife, you want to transplant my *what*?”“She was just dwindling down the drain, and she probably would have died,” Dr. [Alexander] Khoruts
Super squid penis. (No, this is not spam.)
BBC recently covered the salacious details when scientists discovered a squid’s enormous sexual organ:
… Read the rest “Super squid penis. (No, this is not spam.)”The male squid’s sexual organ is almost as long as its whole body,
Prozac pollution and shrimp suicide.
BBC News reports that antidepressant runoff is encouraging shrimp to go toward the white light:
… Read the rest “Prozac pollution and shrimp suicide.”The researchers say this causes the shrimps to forget to hide from predators and, as a result,
Humans: warming the globe for 15,000 years.
New Scientist steals my innocent view of humankind before the Industrial Revolution. It turns out we were probably messing up the climate in the Ice Age, too:
… Read the rest “Humans: warming the globe for 15,000 years.”Last year, researchers at the
Science Art: Giovanni de Dondi’s Astrarium, 1364.
This is a modern tracing
of a 1461 illustration
of a 1364 drawing
of a mechanical clock
that represented the movement of the universe.
Leonardo da Vinci: Paleontologist.
Smithsonian reveals yet another secret talent from the original Renaissance man. He was a forefather of fossil science:
… Read the rest “Leonardo da Vinci: Paleontologist.”In a new paper in the journal Palaios, Andrea Baucon shows that he
Addicted to heartbreak
The same circuit that controls your jonesin’ for just one more is also, the American Physiological Society says, in charge of your heartbreak:
… Read the rest “Addicted to heartbreak”The pain and anguish of rejection by
We’re gonna need a bigger boat. MUCH bigger.
Fossil-hunters have found the remains of a creature they’re calling Melville’s Leviathan, AP reports. It’s a whale that, 12 million years ago, snacked on humpbacks… Read the rest “We’re gonna need a bigger boat. MUCH bigger.”