Science Daily reveals the chemical link between passionate desire and passionate jealousy:
… Read the rest “Love is envy (chemically).”Previous studies have shown that the oxytocin hormone has a positive effect on positive feelings.
The DaniWeb IT forum offers proof that, for at least one skilled professional, prostitution is a better way to pay the bills than programming:
… Read the rest “A job better than programming…”Dr Magnanti is a developmental neurotoxicology
No, really. Despair… sweet, sweet despair… sometimes, the Daily Telegraph says, it’s just stupid to be hopeful. And, the BBC adds, every so often, gloom is as good as… Read the rest “Don’t bother cheering up. You’re better off that way.”
This is a different way of looking at planet Earth. It’s an image from the ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft. The sliver of land you see on that crescent is the South… Read the rest “Science Art: First view of Earth as Rosetta approaches home”
NASA inspires my hopes again. I’ll look up at the moon and know there’s water up there:
… Read the rest “Limpid moon.”“The full understanding of the LCROSS data may take some time. The data is that rich,”
Wired has a lovely story about a charismatic creature that has no mouth, lives inside dead whale bones and is part of a very complicated family:
… Read the rest “Mouthless worm stranger than previously thought. Oh. OK.”Since the discovery by Vrijenhoek and other
Pharyngula passes on a very interesting offer:
… Read the rest “Look at you. Up close.”I had my doubts about this; I got an offer from ASPEX corporation to let people get free scanning electron micrographs of just about anything.
Discovery News has me imagining the text of a classified ad in the ARCHAEOLOGY – PRE-CHRISTIAN section…. Found: Persian army. Lots of mileage, but well-preserved:
… Read the rest “Like a wolf on the fold. Like an ocean of choking sand.”Bronze
New Scientist is ready to weigh anchor in the Sahara, now that it looks like Ethiopia is getting its very own brand new ocean:
… Read the rest “Ethiopia’s other coast.”“The ferocity of what we saw during this episode stunned
Yeah, so the LHC really, really can’t catch a break. Not only are bizarre electrical failures, Al Qaeda operatives and time travelers out to get them – PopSci reveals that even… Read the rest “Another LHC baguatelle.”
This is the place where we live – our celestial family – as seen by the educated reader in the Age of Steam. (Then, as now, Pluto didn’t make the planetary… Read the rest “Science Art: “Planetensystem”, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 1885.”
New Scientist points out an unexpected sunny side of the recent switch to digital broadcasting: it’s suddenly a lot easier for radio telescopes to see the sky:
… Read the rest “Look up, TV people.”The window is giving
Wall Street financiers have more in common with bacteria than you might expect (ahem), PhysOrg reports, based on a new study that shows how microbes manage their investments:
… Read the rest “Germ markets.”“We
New Scientist tells the SHOCKING UNTOLD STORY of the steamy, sordid sex lives of fiddler crabs:
… Read the rest “Scandal On The Beach! Extortion! Sex!”Males have one giant claw, sometimes as heavy as the rest of their body, which they use in fights.
The Onion reveals where science comes from.
We *knew* it, didn’t we?
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