In the 1970s, NASA hired some artists to visualize life in three kinds of space colonies. Here, we’ve got a Bernal Sphere, a “point design with a sphere living area,” … Read the rest “Science Art: Inside a Bernal Sphere Colony, by Rick Guidice/NASA Ames Research Center”
Laboratory Equipment points out that simple solutions can have bigger effects than you’d imagine, when it comes to the raw material we’re making things out of:
… Read the rest “Want to make strong fibers? Use knots!”Publishing
Robots are still, on the whole, kind of slow responders. The big breakthrough a couple of years ago with Big Dog was that it could run without tipping over – it could respond to changes… Read the rest “A robot that can catch.”
PbysOrg looks back into the distant past, when tiny shrimp left behind sperm longer than their bodies:
… Read the rest “What’s that a fossil of? Oh, just giant sperm.”The giant sperm are thought to have been longer than the male’s entire body,
Actually, gone. Imploded. BBC has more on the tragic end of the deep-sea submersible Nereus:
… Read the rest “One of our submarines is missing.”The robotic vehicle Nereus went missing while exploring one of the ocean’s deepest spots:
The Guardian (with a little help from Harvard) confirms what folks have suspected for a while – that Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is largely due to neonicotinoid pesticides:
… Read the rest “It really is the nicotine-based pesticide that’s killing all the bees.”In
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This eerie vision of an alien, ancient world greeted those who opened the front cover of W.F.A. Zimmerman’s Le monde avant la creation de l’homme, “the… Read the rest “Science Art: Le Monde Primitif, by Adolphe-Franois Pannemaker, 1857.”
At least, Laboratory Equipment says, in ancient Egypt. A new study of carbon-levels in mummies has found that until recently, when people settled down to build cities, they stopped eating… Read the rest “Civilization has vegetarian roots.”
Washington Post explores the friendship between Jeremy Simon, a 3D-printer “tinkerer” and Jose Delgado, a 53-year-old man who was born without a hand… and who prefers… Read the rest “A $50 home-printed hand beats a $42,000 prosthetic.”
Nature reveals that sometimes our mouths really do move faster than our brains:
… Read the rest “I really don’t know what I’m saying.”But some researchers think that speech is not entirely planned, and that people know what they are saying
Scientific American paints a peculiar picture of the Big Apple’s future, with the hustle and bustle taking place behind a series of levees, walls and other barriers to keep the ocean… Read the rest “The walled city of New York… after the oceans rise.”
Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), as NPR reports, it only affects crickets. They get infected, then want to have more sex, spreading the virus to more hosts:
… Read the rest “A viral aphrodisiac. Like, literally – a virus that makes sexytime happen. Then it kills you….”Shelley Adamo and her team
PhysOrg reveals a new discovery in vampire science – that infusion of blood from young mice makes old mice brains youthful again:
… Read the rest “Young blood renews old brains.”…[T]hey also conducted a critical experiment
Ways to get that bridge finished, as described in FM 5-10 Engineer Field Manual, Communications, Construction, and Utilities (September 9, 1940)
Fancy car for the U.S. Army to be building… Read the rest “Types of Trusses, from FM 5-10 Engineer Field Manual, 1940.”
Birds do it and bees do it as celebration of life. Science Daily explains how bacteria can do it – and make themselves antibiotic-resistant – by using dead cells to reproduce… Read the rest “Sex with death (is how bacteria do it).”
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