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Pierre Belon was a naturalist in the Renaissance. He graduated from medical school, then apprenticed himself to a botanist and wandered from France to Palestine, drawing… Read the rest “Science Art: Octopos vulgo Graeco, by Pierre Belon (Petri Bellonii Cenomani), in De aquatilibus, 1553”
Or, BBC says, at least the symptoms of aging, like wrinkles and cataracts. Mayo Clinic researchers may have found a fountain of youth:
… Read the rest “Mayo Clinic stops aging.”The study, published in Nature, focused on what are
The Telegraph finds the truth behind a navigational legend – a stone that Vikings used locate the sun on cloudy days:
… Read the rest “How Vikings found the sun.”Now experiments have shown that a crystal, called an Iceland spar,
BBC reports on three ways scientists are bringing tractor beams into reality:
… Read the rest “Turning on the first tractor beams.”The $100,000 (£63,000) award will be used to examine three laser-based approaches to do what has until now
The Future Perfect blog chases down what it might mean once we use our faces online:
… Read the rest “Who owns your face? (biometrics, meet property rights)”One of the reoccurring conversations in the US that I coming back to is near-time facial recognition in
Science Daily points the way for the next information revolution. Not using electrons, but light itself:
… Read the rest “Photon machines”The merging of two technologies under development — plasmonics and nanophotonics
Marine biology from the Diesel Age. Crowded organisms, barely visible through the equipment. (And I’m talking about the researchers.)
Photo from NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries… Read the rest “Science Art: Examining Plankton Haul, Plankton Hydrographic Cruise, Research Vessel Atlantis by O.E. Sette, 1935”
MSNBC (among other sources) reports on the amorphous, multiform, shuddering things that live and ooze in a crawling chaos across the deepest ocean floor:
… Read the rest “Living shoggoths.”Gigantic amoebas have been found
Must’ve been something to see. The Telegraph gives a new picture of what it was like when hundreds of dinosaurs went a-walking:
… Read the rest “Dinosaur migration”The journey would have taken place on a seasonal basis
Lando. Lando Calrissian. Cloud miner. Sounds like a great space opera profession, doesn’t it? But National Geographic is talking about exploiting the atmosphere for fuel:
… Read the rest “Air miner.”…[S]cience
The Daily is reporting on a revolution. DIY researchers are leaving the academy to take a punk rock approach to science:
… Read the rest “Garage biology. (Like garage rock.)”Three years ago, [Mackensie] Cowell and his counterpart Jason Bobe,
SONG: “Move It Close to You.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Mind-guided robotic arm lets paralyzed… Read the rest “SONG: Move It Close to You.”
The artist and writer William Beebe is better known for his deep sea explorations than his wattle portraiture. He studied at Columbia, but spent too much time exploring and collecting specimens… Read the rest “Science Art: Wattles of Cock Tragopans, by William Beebe, from A Monograph on Pheasants, 1918-1922.”
New Scientist looks at where and how business happens – and reveals that out of 37 million global companies, it’s only a very few who call the shots:
… Read the rest “The 147 corporations that run everything.”the study, by a trio of complex
From around 900 CE, in a boat on Scotland’s west coast, comes a dead Viking warrior. BBC reports on the most complete Norse grave site found in the UK:
… Read the rest “A Viking burial.”Archaeologist Dr Hannah Cobb said
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