A mouse-eared bat, from Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, as found on the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
It falls between a rather pleasant-looking bush… Read the rest “Science Art: Vespertilio Formosus”
Scientific American digs into one of the most recognizable, most influential records (and cover images) – the astronomical story behind Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures… Read the rest “Unknown Pleasures: The story behind the cover.”
New Scientist seems to be going a little around the bend with transplants this week (witness hand enthusiasm), especially when it comes to the prospect of putting your head on an all-new … Read the rest “Full body transplants.”
L.A. Times examines the biochemical power that love – or at least the “love hormone” oxytocin – has to neutralize alcohol and beat alcoholism:
… Read the rest “Love (hormone) against alcoholism.”…[N]ew
Laboratory Equipment preaches the (newly embraced) health benefits of a cholesterol-laden, high-caffeine breakfast, championing the joys of coffee and eggs, hold the sugar, not the… Read the rest “Breakfast is championed (at last)”
Washington Post reveals the natural substance that beats spider silk for toughness, and diamonds for hardness – and it’s limpet teeth:
… Read the rest “Stronger than spider silk”In a study set to come out this month
Science Daily introduces us to a brand new sea creature, bright red and fantastically delicate, dubbed the ruby seadragon:
… Read the rest “Meet the Ruby Seadragon”Using DNA and anatomical research tools, Scripps graduate student
New Scientist marvels at the ability of DNA to store information, with a realization that glassed-in genes could safely store information for millennia:
… Read the rest “The DNA hard drive.”Just 1 gram of DNA is theoretically
They’re not exactly pretty yet, but New Scientist has the skinny on a real James Bond-style super-gadget, telescopic contact lenses:
… Read the rest “Telescopic contact lenses”Developed by a team led by Eric Tremblay at the
A look at the solar wind – charged particles whipping off our nearest star – and what they do to the second planet out, Venus.
From a NASA technical document, a translation of … Read the rest “Science Art: Variation of the Electron Density with Altitude in the Venusian Ionosphere, 1975.”
CityMetric takes a look at why the zeppelins went down in the end… and how one new system might bring them back
Today, the Van Wagner group, an airship organisation, estimates that … Read the rest “Again, airships. With a little difference.”
Fusion has the details on the growing community of DNA uploaders:
… Read the rest “A social network for sharing your DNA. Online, I mean.”Members of openSNP upload their genes along with things like their sex, age, eye color, location, Fitbit data and medical
Nature reports on a British legal ruling that’s a world-first, a step toward allowing medical scientists to create “three-parent” embryos:
… Read the rest “One dad, two moms… on the cellular level. Now, legal. Almost.”This technique, known
Live Science describes a new sort of prehistoric monster – a bull-sized rodent with elephant-like tusks:
… Read the rest “The age of the elephant rats.”An amateur paleontologist first unearthed the skull of an extinct rodent,
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