SciAm puts us back in our place with the revelation from our DNA that humans used to be rarer than mountain gorillas:
… Read the rest “Once, we were endangered.”[A]ccording to scientists from the University of Utah, about a million
Neurologists get Sonic Youth. That’s what I think after reading Jonah Lehrer’s ScienceBlogs entry about the way music works in the brain:
… Read the rest “Frame the deviance.”The experiment was more compelling.
Ernst Haeckel, comparing natural forms for his “Beauty-album of Nature.” If you haven’t seen Proteus yet, you really should – as well as telling the story of … Read the rest “Science Art: Aus dem Schoenheitsalbum der Natur by Ernst Haeckel”
Between playing on Wednesday and moving into a new house, there hasn’t been any time for writing and recording – so the 23rd will go by without a new song.
It will arrive soon, … Read the rest “No song today…”
NPR takes a look at the scrum that happens when sperm team up to reach their ultimate goal:
… Read the rest “Sperm of a feather…”Fisher wondered whether sperm from two different male mice would cooperate indiscriminately or
Perfect for androids or pacifist vampires… maybe. But Science Daily says artificial blood could save plenty of ordinary human lives:
… Read the rest “Substitute blood.”The reason for this failure, according to Professor
You, yes YOU, dear reader, can be published as a paleontologist. That’s what Discovery News says about the Open Dinosaur Project, which is looking for a little bit of help from an awful… Read the rest “Open Dinosaurs.”
Science Daily bends my head with their report on scientists who’ve tied lasers into knots:
… Read the rest “Tying light in knots”Optical vortices can be created with holograms which direct the flow of light. In this work,
This is not new science, but it’s certainly new to me. Over at the Mad Science Experiments site, there’s an article describing the meeting between the three men who thought … Read the rest “God, meet God… and this is God.”
This is the US Navy’s airship Los Angeles, the most successful of America’s rigid-body airships, engaging in a maneuver that proved dirigibles like these… Read the rest “Science Art: The U.S.S. Los Angeles moored on the U.S.S. Pakota, 1924”
SciAm bursts the myth that testosterone is the source of male aggression. No, the truth is far worse. It’s the thing that turns men into hot doggers and showoffs:
… Read the rest “The “look at me” hormone.”To test the idea, the
BBC dives into the future of computing, when we replace cold, hard silicon with a strong brew of liquid thinking machines:
… Read the rest “Wetware upgrade.”What distinguishes the current project is that it will make use
Sorry, but I just can’t outdo Wired’s headline on this one: Pentagon Scientists Target Iran’s Nuclear Molemen:
… Read the rest “Nuclear molemen?”Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, apparently takes
Jonathan D. Moreno, writing in the Science Progress blog, takes note of the latest signs of the new Eastern superpower’s growth. China’s not just an economic powerhouse, … Read the rest “Chinese science.”
Science Daily looks at the hidden symmetry lying inside all things where we can’t see it:
… Read the rest “A tiny Golden Mean.”Researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB), in cooperation
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