The next Mars Rover will make its own oxygen from CO2.
Scientific American reports on the technology that’ll help humans explore the Red Planet… first with fuel, then with air to breathe. The next machine to […]
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Rosetta is orbiting a comet right now.
Orbiting a planet is not that big a deal – moons do it all the time. And everyone you’ve ever known has orbited a sun. […]
Mysterious crater explained. Not that it helps….
Nature offers one of the least comforting explanations for a mysterious hole in Siberia. It wasn’t from an asteroid or a rogue telephone-pole-installing crew. The […]
The sleepless gene.
Science World Report takes a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed look at the mutation that makes some people chipper, functional early risers: The researchers turned to 100 pairs […]
Science Art: Stephenson’s Patent, 1850.
Click to embiggen From The Principles and Practice and Explanation of the Machinery of Locomotive Engines in Operation, found on archive.org. The book seems to […]
The cool bedroom weight-loss plan.
VCU researchers have found a cool way to boost your body’s supply of (metabolism-raising) brown fat cells – by turning down your air conditioning: Researchers […]
Four years an expectant mother. Eight arms to hug them.
Science Daily reveals the record-breaking brooding period of the deep-sea octopus: In May 2007, during one of these surveys, the researchers discovered a female octopus […]
The West is drying up.
Nature shares satellite data that shows not only lakes, rivers and reservoirs shrinking across the whole U.S. Southwest, but even water underground is going away: […]
1,000,000-year-old tools.
That’s what Sci-News.com and Science Daily are reporting that University of Toronto researchers have found. A trove of thousands of really really old tools: Science […]
Science Art: The Englishman Watt wanted to make a steam engine…, 1873.
Click to embiggen Translation: The Englishman Watt wanted to make a steam engine. He spent so much time on it that he upset his aunt. […]
Fusion attracts cash.
Investors are (quietly, says Scientific American) lining up support for companies figuring out the ins and outs of nuclear fusion: …[T]he fragments of information that […]
Climate change means… more kidney stones?
Yep. Scientific American has more on a painful consequence of temperatures swinging upward unexpectedly: In a study published earlier this month in the journal Environmental […]
Science Art: Figure Showing Anterior Ethmoidal Artery, 2013.
Ever feel congested? Here’s where it happens – the paranasal sinuses. These ones are under your eyes. And the artery we’re specifically looking at here […]
An injection reverses type-2 diabetes (temporarily). No insulin required.
Salk Institute scientists have discovered an injectable protein that reverses diabetes for two days: In mice with diet-induced diabetes — the equivalent of type 2 […]
Unbrushed teeth left a message for the future
Science Daily has more on the prehistoric plaque that’s teaching us about our ancestors’ diets: The research was carried out at Al Khiday, a pre-historic […]