LiveScience examines the way dogs save human lives – by sniffing out prostate cancer:
… Read the rest “Better prostate exam? Good dog!”Doctors at Paris’s Hospital Tenon trained the [Belgian Malinois] dogs to distinguish
The bloggers at ufunk.net have appealed to my prurient side with the Eizo Pin-up Calendar:
Miss June, 2010.
Yes, it’s a calendar that really shows it all. Eizo is a German medical imaging… Read the rest “Take it ALL off.”
BBC News reports on the long-awaited return of the first probe to make it out to an asteroid and back:
… Read the rest “Welcome home, Hayabusa.”The Hayabusa pod was picked up by a helicopter team and transferred to a control centre
PhysOrg produces scientific proof that superstitions kinda do bring luck:
… Read the rest “Hang onto that four-leaf clover.”Damisch teamed with colleagues Barbara Stoberock and Thomas Mussweiler, also from the University of Cologne,
… Read the rest “Science Art: “When I heard the learn’d astronomer” by Walt Whitman.”WHEN I heard the learn’d astronomer;
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;
When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;
When I,
CNN throws some science at the ongoing ruckus over same-sex parenting:
… Read the rest “Kids of same-sex parents: eerily well-adjusted.”A nearly 25-year study concluded that children raised in lesbian households were psychologically well-adjusted
Forbes traces the development of devices powered by body heat:
… Read the rest “Body power. That’s hot.”A resting male can put out between 100 and 120 watts of energy, in theory enough to power many of the electronics you use, such
Nature tracks crocodile migrations, showing how they get around by surfing:
… Read the rest “Crocodile surf”Zoologists didn’t know how the reptiles travelled such long distances given the sustained level of
I’ve been following this bit of research for years, and now Discovery News has an update. TIGHAR has shed a grim, haunting light on Amelia Earhart’s last days as a castaway:… Read the rest “When the coconut crabs came for Earhart.”
I didn’t really need a computer simulation to show me this because I know how the Gulf Stream works, but here. Wired provides a look at what happens when the Gulf oil spill reaches the… Read the rest “Once it hits the Gulf Stream….”
The California Condor, as pictured in the Paris-published The Natural History Encyclopedia – Birds, Vol. 1. By comparison, this was printed at around the same … Read the rest “Science Art: Catharte de la Californie, Encyclopédie d’histoire naturelle – oiseaux vol. 1, 1860.”
Wired’s Danger Room sees all, knows all, and reveals all – including the Pentagon’s plan to predict biological attacks by knowing all possible outcomes:
… Read the rest “DARPA wants Prophecy.”They’re hosting
National Geographic goes beyond the veil for a close look at the life-bringing secrets of resurrection bacteria:
… Read the rest “Bacteria from the dead….”Using such clues, D. radiodurans can piece together all of its DNA in about
PhysOrg reports on a new technique for making medication by printing drugs onto tablets:
… Read the rest “Printing pills.”A medicine droplet is 20 times larger than an ink droplet in a standard ink-jet system, so the challenges
Fixing the BBC’s headline here (and wife??) while celebrating a new, high frequency project by Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed, dog musicians:
… Read the rest “Anderson & Reed make dog music.”US rock star Lou Reed and his artist wife
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