A montage of photos taken from the USS Boxer (LHD 4) while the ship was on maneuvers in the Persian Gulf. The earth’s shadow stood between the sun and the moon… Read the rest “Science Art: Lunar eclipse March 2007”
That’s how Science Daily says life is like for fruit flies who’ve had their smell gene connected to the light gene:
… Read the rest “Blue light smells like bananas.”Normally animals avoid light. However, blue light simulates
BBC reports on what appears to be (oversimplifying here) a hormonal link between skepticism and aggression:
… Read the rest “Testosterone, the fact-checking hormone.”To test the impact of testosterone on trust, the study authors from Utrecht
UPenn paleontologists have named a whole new kind of dinosaur:
… Read the rest “Look! It’s a… Hey-a WHAT-ee?”The dinosaur, whose name translates to mean “grinding-mouth, wrinkle-eye,” was most likely an herbivore that ate the ferns
The Christian Science Monitor (a surprisingly good source for tech news) is carrying a report on the newest advances in old flying technology – the world’s largest inflatable… Read the rest “Zeppelin ready to take wing. Or, uh, airbag.”
SONG: “Golden Record”. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Partially based on “Have aliens hijacked Voyager… Read the rest “SONG: Golden Record”
BBC (among other outlets) has gotten all excited over the world’s first artificial life form:
… Read the rest “It’s ALIVE!”The team was led by Dr Craig Venter of the J Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) in Maryland
Nature says it’s true: Rhesus monkeys will trade items of value – in this case, juice – in return for sexy monkey booty shots:
… Read the rest “Monkeys pay for porn.”The researchers gave captive male rhesus
PopSci releases the terrifying news that computers can decode our humor now. We can’t tell jokes over their little silicon heads any more – they’ve got an algorithm … Read the rest “Computers get the joke.”
New Scientist uncorks a biological scandal involving research into the naughty things bats do after dark:
… Read the rest “Bat sex: Dirty enough to make trouble.”University College Cork in Ireland is coming under international pressure to
Yep. Science Daily says it’s a good idea to talk to children using grown-up language:
… Read the rest “Aw, the widdew scientist want to tawk aww gwown up!”Academic language is characterised by difficult, abstract words and complex sentence structures.
… Read the rest “Science Art: Barnard’s Star, by Kate Horowitz.”after Ann Druyan
I send for you my heartbeat,
the rhythms of my latest dream.
You are just now finding the frozen clicks
of muscles, cooling like just-parked cars.
Through endless fields
The Christian Science Monitor (reprinting LiveScience) has published the greatest science headline I think I’ve ever read:
… Read the rest “10 limbs for hugging!”School-bus sized squid actually quite friendly, study
That’s what Sydney’s Daily Telegraph wants me to hear when they tell me about a strange malfunction affecting the Voyager 2 space probe:
… Read the rest “I**AM**V-GER***”But now the spacecraft is sending back
Science magazine brings us a step closer to a Pleistocene Park by reporting on the creation of living mammoth blood:
… Read the rest “Mammoth blood lives again.”By inserting a 43,000-year-old woolly mammoth gene into Escherichia
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