The Antipodean ABC Science News has hopeful news about antibiotic resistant superbugs. They might have an Achilles heel after all:
… Read the rest “Undoing antibiotic resistance.”Researchers at New York University report in the journal
A still life from the NASA Great Images collection.
This was a prototype of the craft that went on to explore the outer reaches of the solar system, then become a machine consciousness… Read the rest “Science Art: Voyager Spacecraft During Vibration Testing, 1977”
We’ve been watching chimpanzee’s faces. Why not? They can be funny to look at, often, and they can help us understand how we communicate emotions and why we do what we see.
… Read the rest “Human see. Chimps do.”Irish
ABC Science (the Australian network, not the American one) is taking a long look at lizards – specifically, the medical information we can get from geckos’ wriggling tails… Read the rest “How do geckos drop their tails?”
OK, sorry for that headline. Ahem. But here! There are these two kids in Nepal who figured out how to make solar energy a heck of a lot cheaper to harness:
… Read the rest “Affordable solar? Hair’s the ticket.”Milan Karki and Harihar Adhikari, have
I just had an enjoyable email exchange with a friend who asked me about something he’d been wondering. (These are generally the best kinds of email exchanges to have.) He’d … Read the rest “Reclaiming forgotten power.”
Johns Hopkins University is unleashing a wave of… no, wait. It’s farms. Johns Hopkins is just warning about it. Farms, however, are unleashing a wave of antibiotic terror… Read the rest “Terror from the farm.”
This is Discoaster surculus. Remember last week, that ocean picture that showed millions of coccolithophores floating in the ocean, sucking up CO2 and making future … Read the rest “Science Art: Discoaster surculus.”
The association between songs about science and songs for kids is never entirely broken, I guess, since both endeavors are supposedly educational. So it’s just as well that They … Read the rest “Welcome back to the territory, TMBG.”
The Telegraph unveils a beautiful portrait of a fearsome beast – an ancient squid drawn in its own petrified ink:
… Read the rest “Prehistoric squid drawn in prehistoric ink.”“It is difficult to imagine how you can have something as soft
Scientists are not just getting into creating music, InsideScience informs me. They’ve also figured out the magic of finance:
… Read the rest “The physics of finance: Or, the puppetmasters revealed.”A pair of physicists at the Swiss Federal Institute
BBC News reveals the latest tactic in the war to make live electronica performances a little more of the moment: Have the musicians write their sound-making code on the fly:
… Read the rest “Scientists make music #2: Live coding.”Live coding has
This image, a recent Picture of the Day at NASA’s Earth Observatory, takes a big view of something very small – lots and lots and lots of single-celled organisms multiplying… Read the rest “Science Art: Barents Sea in Bloom (BarentsSea_TMO_2009231)”
Well, this seems a little misguided – or maybe absolutely brilliant – but a psychological researcher (and guitarist) has created the ideal David Bowie song. Scientifically… Read the rest ““The Laughing Gnome” isn’t enough, I guess.”
Surgeons are readying their Frankenstein-style electrodes, NBC says, in preparation for building new blood vessels with the power (and shape) of lightning:
… Read the rest “Electricity in my veins.”The artificial organs begin
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