Beyond “We can all agree on cheese”: Higher pizza-cutting mathematics.
New Scientist delves into the advanced mapping of pizza slicing for *everyone’s* preferences: Most of us divide a pizza using straight cuts that all meet […]
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Science Art: Rhombic Dodecahedron, Figs. 44 and 45 from “Crystalline Forms,” G.F. Richardson, 1842
Click to embiggen This is a detail of a page from Geology for Beginners, comprising a familiar explanation of geology, and its associate sciences, an […]
A really, really big black hole.
Science Daily reports that Japanese observers have just found the second-largest black hole in the Milky Way – by looking at clouds of gas: Astronomers […]
Like Google Glass, but invisible.
Wired reveals a pair of smart glasses that don’t look any different than any other pair of prescription frames – wearable computers just the way […]
Needed: a silent sea sanctuary.
Science Direct has a copy of the study recommending a soundproofed sanctuary for dolphins and other sonar-using marine life: Many marine organisms, from invertebrates to […]
Is this safe? We know how how to turn off our sense of danger now.
Science Daily reports on the discovery of the brain circuit that recognizes danger: Researchers at Columbia University’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and […]
Science Art: Geology, by Brad Paisley
Yeah, this was just rebroadcast on Prairie Home Companion this weekend. But why not? A pretty good country song that does everything you’d want a […]
NASA’s making low-pollution hybrid jets.
Popular Science reminds us that NASA’s first “A” is for “Aeronautics” – which is why they’re trying to make ultra-efficient hybrid jet engines: Researchers at […]
Hormone hacking: home-grown gender control.
The Open Source Gendercodes project is planning to take sex hormones out of the pharmaceutical factory and into the kitchens (and gardens) of any transgendered […]
Dogs stymie the battle to wipe out guinea worm.
As Nature notes, we’ve almost eradicated guinea worm – a terribly infectious parasite – but the worm seems to be striking back in the form […]
Florida carpenter ants program themselves.
Science Daily reveals how one species of ant takes on their own brains and programs their social roles – doing the job we thought DNA […]
Science Art: Maladieu du Cheval, by François Robichon de la Guérinière.
Click to embiggen A horse, looking well. From Manuel vétérinaire, ou traité sur les Maladies du Cheval, et sur les remédes qu’on doit employer pour […]
Science Art: Flaming Storms on the Sun’s Face
First found on dthorne books. I’m guessing this came from a very old Scientific American (maybe 1930s?), but can’t really say for sure. Welcome, 2016.
Disney builds a wall-driving robot.
A bit fancier than the Hall of the Presidents. New Scientist reports on a wheeled robot that uses fans to drive up walls: The eminently […]
Mouse livers could cure your sweet tooth.
Popular Science has more on the hormone from mouse livers that cuts sugar cravings: The scientists found that in the rodents, a hormone generated by […]