Science Art: Io before Jupiter.
Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io, as seen from the Galileo space probe. The blue background is a false-color overlay of Jupiter’s swirling clouds.
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Rock Will Save The Planet
OK, it’s a specific kind of rock:
… Read the rest “Rock Will Save The Planet”CleanTechnica.com:
Scientists at Columbia University have discovered that a rock found in the Middle East can be used to soak up carbon dioxide at
Nature Deficit Disorder?
Seed contributor Jonah Lehrer posts to Scienceblogs about the brain-boosting effects of a stroll in the woods:
… Read the rest “Nature Deficit Disorder?”Because you can’t help but stop and notice the reddish orange twilight
Best Science Headline Contender:
From the British paper The Register, reporting on the ammonia-laden refrigerator being ejected from the International Space Station:
ASTRONAUT SPACE DUMP PONG-BOMB FRAG SHOWER TODAY… Read the rest “Best Science Headline Contender:”
Steampunk Laughs Last: Hydrogen from Solar.
PhysOrg.com reveals the unexpected origin of a new alternative energy technology – it isn’t new at all:
… Read the rest “Steampunk Laughs Last: Hydrogen from Solar.”…[I]t may seem a bit out of place that, in 1833, an Italian physicist
Electric Eel Power
PhysOrg reports on a slithery new power source – the eel generator:
… Read the rest “Electric Eel Power”Electric eels channel the output of thousands of specialized cells called electrocytes to generate electric
For That Atomic Guitar Sound.
New Scientist goes behind the music to tell the real story of Manchester rocker and physics prof Andrew Murray, who figured out a new way to take atoms apart using his guitar amp:
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Alternative fuels are popping up like mushrooms.
Montana State University researchers have found diesel fuel growing on trees in Patagonia. Well, OK, it’s the next best thing – a fungus that churns out diesel:
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No, Really.
Scientific American reports on the psychology of sarcasm and on new studies that suggest irony is hardwired into our brains:
… Read the rest “No, Really.”In one experiment, [Penny M. Pexman of the University of Calgary
Magnetic Portals Surround Us.
We are surrounded, NASA astronomers now say, by flux transfer events – fast-moving, invisible tunnels to the Sun:
… Read the rest “Magnetic Portals Surround Us.”A magnetic portal will open, linking Earth to the sun 93 million
The Beatles Knew All The Chords… Plus One.
Musical mystery solved after 40 years! It took an obsessive mathematician to discover what the heck the Beatles were playing for the opening chord of “Hard Day’s Night”… Read the rest “The Beatles Knew All The Chords… Plus One.”
Science Art: Cloud, dust storm over central China, 6-3-2002
Image from "The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth" at the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center.
Robinson Crusoe Found.
Yes, the plucky, inventive island castaway Robinson Crusoe was a fictional character. But author Robert Louis Stevenson, writing in the mid-1800s, based him on the very real Alexander… Read the rest “Robinson Crusoe Found.”
Living magnets, shaped like weapons.
Researchers peering through microscopes at ancient mud have found the fossilized remains of a truly bizarre life form:
… Read the rest “Living magnets, shaped like weapons.”“Imagine our surprise to discover not only a fossil bloom