Or at least you can be, if MSNBC and the Soft Matter journal are to be believed. They’re publishing research that shows how cotton candy can be used to rebuild our bodies:
… Read the rest “You’re made of cotton candy.”First, you
SONG: “Army Ants”, originally by Tom Waits (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant. Originally by Tom Waits.
SOURCE: This is another… Read the rest “SONG: Army Ants (penitential Tom Waits cover)”
The SpaceMarauder blog is looking forward to some singular explosions down here on Earth, thanks to the news that the Large Hadron Collider is back online:
… Read the rest “Return of the Supercollider”Originally slated for an early
The sextant is an instrument that lets you know where you are by determining the sun’s location in the sky – how far above the horizon and how far north or south in the sky.
Essentially… Read the rest “Science Art: Astronomiska Instrument, Sextant, Nordisk familjebok”
SciAm clears up a secret of success that font-freaks already know instinctively. If we’re really going to get things done, you’ve got to tell it to us straight:
… Read the rest “Clear typefaces make life easier.”Those who had
I was reading about urban farming lately – growing food in places where normally you’d see multilevel parking garages take root – when a page on Cuba’s successful… Read the rest “The Vertical Farm”
Researchers studying the McMurdo Sound killer whales may have started something among the orcas:
… Read the rest “Snowballs and Killer Whales”LiveScience, via Yahoo:One of the whales, probably an adult female, was lolling in front
Scientists in China and Japan have come up with a new system for getting power from the sun… by building solar panels like butterfly wings:
… Read the rest “The Power of a Butterfly’s Wing”AZoM, the A to Z of Materials:
Di Zhang and
Topographic radar images of two Hawaiian islands. Rainbows in a void.
You can read more about the image at NASA’s gallery.
SONG: “Iguana Rosada” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “Rare, Storied Pink Iguana Discovered”, Popular… Read the rest “SONG: Iguana Rosada”
Crawling Neutrophil Chasing a Bacterium:
From the video library at Science Hack, where this hypnotic sequence is described as: “A 16-mm movie made in the 1950s by the late David Rogers… Read the rest “Science Art: Crawling Neutrophil Chasing a Bacterium.”
Nature’s Nascent blog has a call for volunteers to help evaluate abstracts and comments on PLoS ONE, the Public Library of Science:
… Read the rest “Help us speak science.”I agree with Deepak’s assessment:
Is the
The Monkey Wire (no, really) is jumping with news of a study that shows chimpanzee babies are smarter than humans:
… Read the rest “Outchimped… with affection.”Daily Express
Professor Kim Bard, of the Centre for the Study of Emotion
SciAm blows the lid off some questionable activity in America’s science administration that wasn’t really related to research:
… Read the rest “National Science Foundation: Smut haven.”Among the IG’s findings: “Six cases
From Wikimedia Commons, original in Beinecke Library, Yale University.
Jorge de Aguiar was a Portuguese cartographer who explored Ethiopia and Arabia in the early … Read the rest “Science Art: Jorge de Aguiar’s Compass Rose, 1492”
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