Nanolamp!
It’s soooo cute! Look at the widdle wight buwb! Aw, New Scientist, if that tiny lamp isn’t the cutest thing ever!:
… Read the rest “Nanolamp!”Chris Regan’s team at the University of California,
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Science Art: Schlieren photograph of a T-38 at Mach 1.1, altitude 13,700 feet, by Leonard Weinstein.
This is what a sonic boom looks like, through a Schlieren camera – one outfitted to see differences in air pressure. The T-38 pilot could probably feel these bands… Read the rest “Science Art: Schlieren photograph of a T-38 at Mach 1.1, altitude 13,700 feet, by Leonard Weinstein.”
Scratch that asteroid.
Science Daily blows a hole in what had been history’s biggest explosion with news that that colossal asteroid that made the Yucatan might not have killed off the dinosaurs after all… Read the rest “Scratch that asteroid.”
The sound of a hundred shrugging epidemiologists.
New Scientist is being reassuring – sort of – when it declares that this swine flu pandemic business isn’t any kind of surprise:
… Read the rest “The sound of a hundred shrugging epidemiologists.”But in 1998, says Richard Webby of St Jude’s
For those on the right, sorry, he really is joking.
The Colbert Report recently made science news over the space station naming controversy. Well, unbowed and unbloodied, the “right-wing” “pundit” once again… Read the rest “For those on the right, sorry, he really is joking.”
Memory and meditation.
You’d expect that meditation would improve your ability to remember things, I suppose. But this study mentioned in New Scientist shows that it really depends on how recently you … Read the rest “Memory and meditation.”
Science Art: Aard-wolf, Webster’s New International
Proteles cristata, the earth-wolf of southern Africaraman amplifier. He’s got a guilty look about him, doesn’t he? He knows what the other hyenas have been hiding. They’re… Read the rest “Science Art: Aard-wolf, Webster’s New International”
SONG: 64 Actuators
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ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “Jacket Lets You Feel the Movies”, IEEE Spectrum… Read the rest “SONG: 64 Actuators”
Home-grown and then some.
The FASEB Journal makes me uneasy with a new biochemical study. I’m beginning to worry that any minute now, government agents will be arresting my head:
… Read the rest “Home-grown and then some.”Scientists made their discovery
Ammā Dnghu: A taste for PIE.
Forget Hebrew, Latin and Old Norse – the Page F30 blog reports on folks out there working to bring back a really old language:
… Read the rest “Ammā Dnghu: A taste for PIE.”That’s the concept behind the reconstruction of
Men need not apply.
The Telegraph, among other news sources, revels in my obsolescence. I am biologically and genetically surplus to needs. I am a man, and they’ve found the first species that’s… Read the rest “Men need not apply.”
Science art: Cannabis sativa, Nordisk familjebok
Happy 4/20, all you stoners.
This is where rope comes from. And paper, and oil, and birdseed, and cheese, and fabric, and…. duuuuude.
Image found in a very special category on Wikimedia… Read the rest “Science art: Cannabis sativa, Nordisk familjebok”
Sushi ain’t green.
Scientific American raises the alarming prospect that, much quicker than anyone expected, bluefin tuna is going the way of the dodo:
… Read the rest “Sushi ain’t green.”As European fishing fleets prepare to begin the two-month
Chimp tricks.
LiveScience sullies our image of chimpanzees as noble, natural creatures with evidence that these apes practice prostitution:
… Read the rest “Chimp tricks.”The primates’ food-for-sex barter occurs indirectly,
Beauty before flight?
You might think flying is an impressive enough goal for any creature, but the Telegraph reveals new clues that dinosaurs may have evolved wings to attract mates:
… Read the rest “Beauty before flight?”Dr Robert Nudds, a biologist