New Scientist tells us the less you see, the more impact spooky music has:
… Read the rest “Listen with your eyes closed.”Sure enough, volunteers rated the eerie-sounding music – laced with staccato strings, ominous trombones, and
In the good old days, computers looked like this. “Computer” was a job, not a tool, and it was often done by a woman who was quick with figures.
These computers… Read the rest “Science Art: Some NACA Muroc personnel with snowman, 1949.”
The “tree where Man was born” might not be growing near Cape Town after all, some archeologists have said recently on PhysOrg. It might have taken root closer to Rangoon:
… Read the rest “Out of Asia.”In
Or, really, Science Daily explains, it’s the blue food dye that can heal and prevent spinal injuries:
… Read the rest “Blue Gatorade heals broken spines.”In an article published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of
LiveScience tells us that we really do glow:
… Read the rest “We’re not brilliant, but…”To learn more about this faint visible light, scientists in Japan employed extraordinarily sensitive cameras capable of detecting single
Science Daily has gallantly leaped to the defense of the sadly misunderstood Humboldt squid:
… Read the rest “Repeat after ussss: SQUID is FRIEND.”For years Seibel has heard stories claiming that Humboldt squid will devour a dog in minutes
PhysOrg brings back memories of Star Trek IV (the time-traveling whale one) with the revelation of a new state of matter – transparent aluminum:
… Read the rest “And we’ll use it to save the humpback whales.”‘What we have created is a completely
On July 22, 1969, when Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins and Neil Armstrong were on their way home after going as far away as anyone had ever gone, this is what home looked like.… Read the rest “Science Art: Planet Earth, Seen by the Apollo 11.”
Endgadgets prepares us for robot dominance of the skies by 2047:
… Read the rest “Drones that think.”In its recently released “Unmanned Aircraft Systems Flight Plan 2009-2047” report, the US Air Force details
New Scientist reacquaints us with the smell of fear:
… Read the rest “Oh. That smell.”Lilianne Mujica-Parodi, a cognitive neuroscientist at Stony Brook University in New York and colleagues collected sweat from the
Health Day News reports on a new neuroscience project from Brigham Young University demonstrating the emotional wisdoms of infants. They’ve shown that babies, like Dr. Dolittle,… Read the rest “Good doggie. Smart baby.”
Scientific American really does incur a sense of wonder and mystery sometimes. Here’s a group of scientists who have turned a bunch of stem cells into a living mouse:
… Read the rest “Mouse made from scratch. (Just add stem cells!)”Xiao Xiao, as
Der Spiegel is sounding the call – psychedelics are coming back to the lab… and helping people heal:
… Read the rest “Acid therapy.”“I would welcome it if it were easier to use psychoactive substances
This is a Saturn V rocket, the largest, heaviest vehicle ever to hurl itself from our small ball of mud into the vastness of space.
At the time the photographer is snapping… Read the rest “Science Art: The Apollo 11 Launch.”
New Scientist’s “Short Sharp Science” blog is not very hopeful about the rocket that’s supposed to take us to Mars. Apparently, there was an oversight in the … Read the rest “Lights out for Ares?”
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