I found this on the wonderful Old Book Illustrations blog. It’s from Les merveilles de l’industrie (The wonders of industry), an 1871 celebration of technological… Read the rest “Science Art: Cist of a Child Found at the Gates of Athens, by P. Broux”
BBC reports on a new invention – a cube that releases a sheet of plastic to clean up space junk:
… Read the rest “Tiny cube tidies orbit.”Residual air molecules still present in the spacecraft’s low-Earth orbit will
Medical News Today makes me feel uncomfortable… oh, no, wait, it’s a GOOD thing!… about the way magnets can alter our moral judgement:
… Read the rest “Magnets and morality”Ten years ago [Dr Rebecca Saxe,
Discovery News takes another look at Iron Age Scotland and finds something more than pretty pictures:
… Read the rest “So that’s what written Pict looks like….”The ancestors of modern Scottish people left behind mysterious, carved stones that
The Corante blog is taking a second look at brain research that could turn Alzheimer’s thinking on its head:
… Read the rest “Is Alzheimer’s a yeast infection? Are the plaques the *cure*?”A recent paper in PLoS One makes the case that beta-amyloid, the protein
Originally published in 1612 in published in Istoria e Dimostrazioni Intorno Alle Macchie Solari e Loro Accidenti Rome.
found via Woolgathersome.
SONG: “The Stick That Never Strikes the Snare” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “Scientists supersize quantum… Read the rest “SONG: The Stick That Never Strikes the Snare”
Science Daily reveals the health-boosting chemicals found in maple syrup:
… Read the rest “Maple syrup – now *that’s* sweet….”University of Rhode Island researcher Navindra Seeram, who specializes in medicinal plant research, has found
PhysOrg divides bad dreams between the sleeping sexes:
… Read the rest “Men and women have different nightmares.”The study, carried out by Dr Michael Schredl of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, involved over 2,000 people,
Very close to making the deadline this month BUT NO CIGAR.
I am, however, a grandfather now. So there’s that.
A new song will be forthcoming, as will a penitential cover in short order.… Read the rest “No song… yet.”
Princeton University researchers have found the bitter truth about HFCS:
… Read the rest “Corn syrup not so sweet.”The first study showed that male rats given water sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup in addition to a standard
“Trophic level” is a measure of how far up the food chain an animal is. It’s generally used in ecological studies to show how much impact a predator has on its habitat –… Read the rest “Cookbook ecology”
This is Agathis dammara, the tree from which we get dammar gum, used as a varnish on paintings, a glaze on food or an ingredient in incense.
Image found in a very special category on Wikimedia… Read the rest “Science Art: Aghatis Dammars, Nordisk familjebok”
Nature reports on the first object large enough to see that’s been put into the quantum state of neither moving nor not-moving:
… Read the rest “Quantum drum beats without beating.”Cleland and his team took a more direct measure of quantum
The Associated Press plunges into the icy waters of the unknown to present us with an unspeakable creature… a shrimp that should not be:
… Read the rest “Shrimp that should not be!”Six hundred feet (183 metres) below the ice
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