PhysOrg once again brings prehistoric monsters to life:
… Read the rest “Hurdia victoria: SHRIMPZILLA!”Although the first fragments were described nearly one hundred years ago, they were assumed to be part of a crustacean-like animal.
SONG: “Visibility” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “Strange fish has a see-through head”, MSNBC/… Read the rest “SONG: Visibility”
Euproctis chrysorrhoea, better known as the Browntail moth.
It stings our skin and devastates our farmland, and is the subject of experiments using pheromones as a population control… Read the rest “Science Art: Euproctis chrysorrhoea ugglan, Nordisk familjebok”
The New York Times gives hope for a better drive home with a report on a new approach to electric cars… from the filling station up:
… Read the rest “Electric cars still driving!”We started from the infrastructure. We came up with
Creativity comes from limitations, yes?
Jesse Nesbitt is writing and recording 100 songs in 2009.
These are not particularly scientific, but this is certainly a good example of doing things… Read the rest “Guild Salute: Jesse Nesbitt”
New Scientist introduces our latest underwater overlords – or at least the blueprints for one – in a story about Italian researchers who’re designing the world’s… Read the rest “Roboctopus!”
Item 1: The Telegraph reports on a group of teenagers who used a <$100 camera and a balloon to take some great pictures of space:
… Read the rest “The view from there.”Gerard Marull, 18, said: “We were overwhelmed at
ScientificBlogging covers some fun experiments that involve hooking musicians up to EEG machines, letting them rock out together and watching their brainwaves fall into the same pattern… Read the rest “Guitarists’ brains click together.”
Think your bottled water is all safe from fake estrogen contamination because you’ve switched to glass bottles? ScienceNews wants you to think again:
… Read the rest “Feeling contaminated? Plastic pipes trump glass bottles.”…[T]heir data indicate
Discover’s Bad Astronomy blog highlights some keen new ways to look at the Red Planet:
… Read the rest “Google Mars gets better.”One is an overlay that shows old historical maps, like the ones Percival Lowell made in the late
Click to embiggen, if you dare
A striking image of an invasive exotic species (native to China, Russia and Korea) that was introduced into continental North America, where local fish populations… Read the rest “Science Art: Northern Snakehead – Channa argus”
Researchers have pushed back the date humanity landed in China by a colossal 200,000 years, LiveScience reports. The latest dating of Homo erectus skulls from the Zhoukoudian cave system… Read the rest “Peking man is an old, old man.”
Here, enjoy some prize-winning mathematical art.
Science Daily reports the dipsomanic discovery that men aren’t impressed by girls who try to outdrink them… but that’s not stopping girls from trying:
… Read the rest “Spring Break Science: Girls, don’t try outdrinking boys.”A survey of 3,616
ScientificBlogging.com invites the military to join in the PLUR culture: Patriotism, Love, Unity and Respect. New research shows that if you really want to support the troops, you should… Read the rest “X for the Veterans!”
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