Calling Doctor Manhattan….
PopSci answers the question everyone will be asking once they see The Watchmen preview and its blue-skinned nuclear superman: How worried should you be if you’re stuck inside the… Read the rest “Calling Doctor Manhattan….”
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Learn more with sleep-in-a-pill!
OK, I’m overstating for effect, but it’s not hard to imagine someone taking this discovery in Science News and marketing it that way. After all, they’ve found the chemical… Read the rest “Learn more with sleep-in-a-pill!”
Science Art: Earth and Moon as Seen from Mars
This is a photo of Earth and the moon taken on October 3, 2007, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance… Read the rest “Science Art: Earth and Moon as Seen from Mars”
The Olympic Computer.
The New York Times shares an interesting theory about the Antikythera Mechanism, the ancient clockwork computer recovered from the Mediterranean. Instead of being some kind of mathematical… Read the rest “The Olympic Computer.”
Levitate me.
Step back, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The Telegraph reports on a new a levitation machine:
… Read the rest “Levitate me.”Professor Ulf Leonhardt and Dr Thomas Philbin, from the University of St Andrews in Scotland, have
Watch Facebook crumble….
From the TECH MEANS WASTING TIME Desk: As you all probably know by now, Scrabulous is down. You probably also know it’s due to a lawsuit launched by Hasbro, the makers of Scrabble, and… Read the rest “Watch Facebook crumble….”
Turning off old age.
Stanford researchers have discovered something strange about microscopic worms, ScientificBlogging reports. These nematodes have specific genes that regulate the aging process… Read the rest “Turning off old age.”
Zapping the blues.
PhysOrg reports on a new treatment that aims at eliminating depression by directly stimulating the brain:
… Read the rest “Zapping the blues.”DBS [Deep Brain Stimulation] uses high-frequency electrical stimulation targeted
Science Art: “Ericsson Taxen ritn,” Nordisk familjebok
An early telephone schematic found in a very special category on Wikimedia Commons.
“Something big smacked into Mars…”
“…and stripped half the crust off the planet.” That’s a new theory about the Red Planet reported in Science News and elsewhere.
The problem: The north half of … Read the rest ““Something big smacked into Mars…””
Snikt.
Symmetry unveils the biological oddity of animals with organic metal parts:
… Read the rest “Snikt.”The metals accumulate after molting, as the animals grow into adulthood. Researchers monitored the percentage
SONG: We Climb.
SONG: “We Climb.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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SOURCE: “Fossil fills out water-land leap”, BBC News, 25… Read the rest “SONG: We Climb.”
The Totality of the Universe (nutshell version).
I’m quite impressed by “Cosmology in 10 Minutes” by Danielle Fong, her attempt to explain why scientists believe what they do about how this all came to be:
… Read the rest “The Totality of the Universe (nutshell version).”Guth said,
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Twitch of a (bionic) whisker.
New Scientist senses the tiniest air currents by a synthetic whisker:
… Read the rest “Twitch of a (bionic) whisker.”The design consists of an artificial hair deposited on a silicon substrate and connected to it by a flexible hinge.