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A new generation of anti-Alzheimer’s drugs

15 February 2016 grant 0

BBC News covers the preventative medicines that act like statins for your brain:

Statins are taken by people to reduce the risk of developing heart disease and the Cambridge research team

… Read the rest “A new generation of anti-Alzheimer’s drugs”

Science Art: VII. Scientific Literature, by Finnish artists.

14 February 2016 grant 0

Finlandinthe19thCentSCIENCE

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This is a chapter heading from the book Finland in the Nineteenth Century: by Finnish authors, illustrated by Finnish artists, published in 1894.

Reaching for the stars,… Read the rest “Science Art: VII. Scientific Literature, by Finnish artists.”

*Ants* have the speed… when it comes to boxing.

11 February 2016 grant 0

I’m reading a EurekAlert report on entomologists sitting ringside watching the fastest boxers in the world – trap-jaw ants:

In a new study, entomologists at the University

… Read the rest “*Ants* have the speed… when it comes to boxing.”

Obama tries to boost science funding on his way out.

10 February 2016 grant 0

Nature reports on the outgoing president’s attempt to boost research & development funding by a mandatory four percent:

With less than a year before he leaves office, US President

… Read the rest “Obama tries to boost science funding on his way out.”

Chinese tokamak makes fusion happen – for more than a minute.

9 February 2016 grant 0

Wired reports on the successful ignition of a fire three times hotter than the sun:

The march to sustainable nuclear fusion appears to have made serious progress, after a Chinese research

… Read the rest “Chinese tokamak makes fusion happen – for more than a minute.”

Great trumpeting wildebeests!

5 February 2016 grant 0

Science Daily introduces us to a new… or, well, very, very old beast – a prehistoric gnu that trumpeted like a duck-billed dinosaur:

By poring over the fossilized skulls of

… Read the rest “Great trumpeting wildebeests!”

Luxembourg prepping for asteroid miners.

3 February 2016 grant 0

BBC has more on the Grand Duchy’s grand plans for exploiting the mineral wealth of outer space:

Former European Space Agency boss Jean-Jacques Dordain… told reporters on

… Read the rest “Luxembourg prepping for asteroid miners.”

Living at high-altitude reduces lung-cancer risk.

1 February 2016 grant 0

New York Times reports on strange correlations – especially a study that found high-altitude hometowns reduce your risk of lung cancer:

A paper published last year in the journal

… Read the rest “Living at high-altitude reduces lung-cancer risk.”

Science Art: The “Johnson” Bucket Excavator, from American journal of railway appliances, 1886.

31 January 2016 grant 0

Big steam machine, found: http://lhldigital.lindahall.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/rrjournal/id/4810/rec/30
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A triumph of engineering. It moves earth! Using “the bucket principle”!

As found in The Linda Hall Library.

Science Art: Anyone Can Quantum, by IQIM Caltech

28 January 2016 grant 0

This is far funnier and more exciting than it has any right to be.

Stephen Hawking playing chess over a computer with Paul Rudd.

For the fate of the future.

Caltech’s Institute for Quantum

… Read the rest “Science Art: Anyone Can Quantum, by IQIM Caltech”

Google can beat a human at go.

27 January 2016 grant 0

The Japanese strategy game, Nature reports, is the latest battlefield on which artificial intelligence has defeated human experts:

The best human players of chess, draughts and backgammon

… Read the rest “Google can beat a human at go.”

Awfullest science headline of the month: “The aliens are silent because they’re dead.”

26 January 2016 grant 0

Science Daily clinches it – not because of inaccuracy, but because of the sheer despair in considering that we’re not hearing anyone in our galaxy because everyone else has… Read the rest “Awfullest science headline of the month: “The aliens are silent because they’re dead.””

Jeff Bezos launches and lands the same rocket twice in a row.

25 January 2016 grant 0

Popular Mechanics celebrates a milestone for corporate spaceflight:

The rocket once again passed through the Karman Line, a distance 100 kilometers (or 62 miles) above the Earth that’s

… Read the rest “Jeff Bezos launches and lands the same rocket twice in a row.”

Science Art: PIA18353: Janus and Tethys by Cassini (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)

24 January 2016 grant 0

NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
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A big moon and a little moon, orbiting Saturn.

Moons like Tethys (660 miles or 1,062 kilometers across) are large enough that their own gravity is sufficient to overcome

… Read the rest “Science Art: PIA18353: Janus and Tethys by Cassini (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)”

Nervous people walk to the left.

21 January 2016 grant 0

Science Daily reveals the unbalancing news that if you’re worried, you’re more likely to veer leftward while walking:

New research led by Dr Mario Weick of the School of Psychology

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Honorary Troubadours
  • Jonathan Coulton, Contributing Troubadour for Popular Science.
  • Laura Veirs, who knows her way around a polysyllable.
  • Thomas Dolby, godfather of scientific pop.
  • Squeaky, fact-based rock about fusion containment & rocket science.
  • Cosmos II, a.k.a. Boston University astronomer Alan Marscher.
  • Dr. Fiorella Terenzi, astrophysicist who makes music from cosmic radio sources.
  • Dr. Jim Webb, astronomy professor and acoustic guitarist.
  • Artichoke, the band behind 26 Scientists, Vols. I and II.
  • They Might Be Giants, unrelenting proponents of scientific popular song.
  • Symphonies of Science, the people who make Carl Sagan and others sing.
  • Giant Squid, doom metal about the sublime horrors of marine biology.
  • Gethan Dick,6 scientists, 6 musicians, 1 great album
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