Science Art: Apollo 8 Earthrise, Christmas Eve 1968
Click to embiggen “Oh, my God! Look at that picture over there! Here’s the earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty!” –Commander Frank Borman, Apollo […]
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Music from melting glaciers.
Earther has a nice look at a University of Virginia sound artist who’s turning shrinking glaciers into his musical instrument: “We’re trying to create art, […]
We’re treating cervical cancer with cyborg sperm.
New Scientist spells out how we’re able to use sperm cells to carry chemotherapy drugs directly to tumors: Haifeng Xu at the Leibniz Institute for […]
Science Art: Field Rheostats, 1907
Click to embiggen Not “field” as in “field recording,” but “field” as in “magnetic field.” These are from a chapter on direct-current dynamos in E. […]
Electric-eel power plants could fuel artificial organs
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The Age of Giant Penguins. After the Age of Dinosaurs, before the Age of Giant Mammals.
So, yes, I’ve already written an OK song about giant penguins before, but this is a new and different thing. NPR is reporting on a […]
Acupuncture seems to work to ease cancer pain.
Nature steps into the alternative-medicine fray with research showing that acupuncture significantly reduces pain for female breast-cancer patients: Oncologists who conducted a trial of real […]
Science Art: Red laser through irregular glass mj1, by Mariojan Photo, 2007
Click to embiggen vastly A red laser pointer. A chunk of “bad” glass. A blank wall. And here, a remarkable thing. From the Wikimedia Commons […]
Falcon Heavy will carry Elon Musk’s car to Mars next month.
Ever the showman, Elon Musk has announced his plans (via Agence France-Presse) to not only launch one of the largest rockets ever into Mars orbit […]
A living tattoo that’s also a computer.
Science Daily reveals how MIT researchers used 3D printing to create the world’s first temporary tattoo made from living cells that act as sensors or […]
We found some runes by the railway….
LiveScience reports on Norwegian railway construction workers who found a whetstone carved with a (relatively rare) runic inscription: Runic writing was used in Norway and […]
Science Art: The Great Telescope, Melbourne Observatory
Click to embiggen Look up! I’m not sure exactly what the story is behind this image, because it’s part of the bewildering-but-great (and partially mechanically […]
Pterodactyl treasure trove.
The Guardian takes us to Xinjiang, where paleontologists have opened a new window onto the past by unearthing an amazing trove of fossilized pterodactyl eggs: […]
Ancient women had strong arms, say bone studies.
Science News demonstrates how the prehistoric agricultural revolution was fueled by women with mighty arm muscles: In the early stages of farming more than 7,000 […]
Ketamine fights depression in mice – when a *male researcher* administers it.
Nature dives into some pretty weird sex-based results in pharmacological studies of ketamine: The findings, presented on 14 November at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) […]