What, you think that Christmas cracker in Iceland was something? This was last week’s real eruption:
This prominence is 500,000 miles long. That’s a stream of plasma 62 and… Read the rest “Science Art: Huge Solar Prominence Eruption, NASA STEREO”
New York Times has yet another report on new breakthroughs in using psychedelic drugs to heal:
… Read the rest “Turn on.”“All of a sudden, everything familiar started evaporating,” he recalled. “Imagine you fall
BBC reports they’re delicious! And oh yeah, you may already have tasted them:
… Read the rest “What was I saying about whales?”A genetic analysis of meat found in Los Angeles showed that it was identical to meat from a sei whale being
Another gorgeous old book illustration from Old Book Illustrations, this one from a Belgian natural history text. It’s a beached sperm whale, Physalus cylindricus… Read the rest “Science Art: Le Physale Cylindrique, Histoire naturelle de Lacépède, 1876.”
Covered this as a concept before here, but PhysOrg is reporting that a town in France is making step-powered pavement a reality:
… Read the rest “Making pavement pay.”Authorities in Toulouse in the south-west of France are considering
Discovery News makes me curious, again, about the future of American space travel:
… Read the rest “Obama brings back Orion capsule.”President Obama is reviving the capsule component of the scuttled Constellation program and setting
The Vancouver Sun unearths the story of a possible Assyrian source for the Hebrew covenant:
… Read the rest “An older testament.”The tablet, dating to about 670 BC, is a treaty between the powerful Assyrian king and his weaker
New Scientist hypes a pretty cool discovery about gene-swapping bacteria changing sushi-eaters’ digestion:
… Read the rest “Sushi superpowers.”Genes regularly shuttle between different bacteria, offering each
SONG: “Aquarium” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant. Originally by Robyn Hitchcock.
SOURCE: This is a penitential cover. There’s… Read the rest “SONG: Aquarium (penitential Robyn Hitchcock cover)”
Moses Harris was an entomologist in Britain at about the time the American colonies started that unpleasantness with tea stamps and flintlock rifles.
As well as studying… Read the rest “Science Art: Colour Wheel by Moses Harris, c.1770”
BBC shares the cute story of the discovery of what could be our greatest grandparents, the oldest members of the genus Homo:
… Read the rest ““WHAT did you just pick up?””The site was found by the team thanks to the “virtual globe”
Explorers in the Philippines have, New Scientist reports, just discovered a cousin of the fearsome Komodo dragon that eats fruit:
… Read the rest “Friendlier dragons.”Measuring 2 metres long, Varanus bitatawa is covered
Science Daily gets primitive with research into how the oldest parts of our brains help us learn:
… Read the rest “Lizard-brain learning.”Many of the mundane skills that we apply every day, such as buttoning up a shirt or playing
No, really. The IT Wire covers a new Pediatrics study that breastfeeding could save 911 lives and billions of dollars annually:
… Read the rest “Breasts save lives. And money.”…[T]he paper in the journal Pediatrics states, “The
Telegraph.co.uk reports on a new theory that hail from a comet’s tail caused a 1,000-year freeze:
… Read the rest “Comets made us icy.”Thousands of chunks of material from the comet would have rained down on Earth, each
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