New materials are really cool. Like, make-your-own-unplugged-AC cool.
The Economist is following Stanford researchers who are (literally) making some really cool stuff: Fully 15% of the electricity used by buildings in the United […]
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Bullet-proof fabric and cheap hydrogen fuel… and it comes from carbon.
Nature celebrates more wonders – potential ones, from flexible armor to affordable fuel cells – that we can make from graphene: Protons’ ability to travel […]
Worried? Forgetful? Is there mold in your walls?
Science News breaks some scary news to the fungus-phobic and those of us living in old buildings or moist climates. Researchers at CUNY have discovered […]
Talk to a friend in space. Or friends of a friend in space.
Business Insider, among other sources, has a neat piece on an even neater app that lets you talk to someone on the ISS: talian astronaut […]
Science Art: Fig 2: Lateral views of the skull and lower jaw… (etc.)
Click to embiggen My son and I just spent the afternoon watching the charming Your Inner Fish series (his idea, not mine), and learned all […]
Thanksgiving Theremin: Human Theremin, by Lucy Sansom.
If you’ve got a sister, why not turn her into a musical instrument? Human Theremin from Lucy Sansom on Vimeo.
Thanksgiving Theremin: The Theremin Orchestra, by Merche Blasco (with Sonia Megías and Thessia Machado)
This is more about treated vocals than theremin… and it’s not exactly got a groove. But still, there’s something DUDE about it. The Theremin Orchestra […]
Thanksgiving Theremin: This Nameless Spectacle by Dorit Chrysler and Jesper Just
Dorit Chrysler seems to be on top of the theremin world today. Also, airplanes. And fingertips. Jesper Just and Dorit Chrysler: This nameless spectacle from […]
Elon Musk designs X-Wing rockets & spaceport drones.
Popular Mechanics gets all excited over PayPal/Tesla Motors/SpaceX magnate Elon Musk’s next set of high-tech tricks, including drones and rockets with unfolding wings (in a […]
Science Art: Text-fig. 5. – Model of electron paths, 1946
Click to embiggen It looks like a wrought-iron finial for a curtain rod. It’s actually a demonstration of how electrons can be used as a […]
Here’s why sleep affects your memory (and how you can change it).
NPR goes, ahem, under the covers to trace the brain chemistry of sleep: “One of the most profound effects of a night of sleep is […]
Post-Script: The House just passed a bill barring scientists from advising the EPA on their own research.
This is from Salon, so not exactly science reportage here, but still: In what might be the most ridiculous aspect of the whole thing, the […]
“There are some real frustrations.” – Rocket scientist & Representative Rush Holt, on how science works in Congress.
Scientific American (via Nature) has more about Rush Holt’s eight-term Congressional career, and his new gig as CEO of the American Association for the Advancement […]
Adoptees’ “lost language” is still wired into their brains.
CBC has more on a study that finds kids adopted from China in infancy still have native speakers’ brain responses to spoken Chinese – even […]
Antimicrobial soap might be killing you.
Sorry, was that overdramatic? Science Daily is calmer in reporting that University of California researchers have found that Triclosan, the stuff that makes antibacterial soap […]