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Say hi to Rosetta, the tweeting comet probe.

21 January 2014 grant 0

She’s European. And she’s making all kinds of friends on the Twitter:

ESA Rosetta Mission @ESA_Rosetta 4h
Labas, pasauli!
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ESA Rosetta

… Read the rest “Say hi to Rosetta, the tweeting comet probe.”

Later school starting times make for better students.

20 January 2014 grant 0

Laboratory Equipment explains why moving the morning bell a little later makes education more effective:

Julie Boergers, a psychologist and sleep expert from the Bradley Hasbro Children’s

… Read the rest “Later school starting times make for better students.”

Science Art: Spark Test For Hardness Of Metal, 1941

20 January 2014 grant 0

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From the US Naval Research Laboratory manual Mechanical Practice.

There’s also a *great* diagram of Phillips-head screws.

Earth-like planets might not be so Earth-like… as gassy Earth shows.

17 January 2014 grant 1

Nature examines he implications of a planet that *should* be a twin to Earth, but isn’t – because it’s a gassy Earth-sized planet:

Not only is the planet too warm for liquid

… Read the rest “Earth-like planets might not be so Earth-like… as gassy Earth shows.”

This robot flies like jellyfish swim.

16 January 2014 grant 0

BBC describes the first drone that can hover by flapping its wings:

The work by Leif Ristroph and Stephen Childress from New York University (NYU) is published in the UK Royal Society journal

… Read the rest “This robot flies like jellyfish swim.”

Caffeine improves your memory.

15 January 2014 grant 0

And your mood, of course, but Laboratory Equipment doesn’t get into that. No, all they focus on is the boost caffeine gives your long-term memory:

Michael Yassa, assistant professor

… Read the rest “Caffeine improves your memory.”

Stories change your brain.

14 January 2014 grant 0

Washington Post has more on how a bit of literature can alter the structure of your brain:

“Stories shape our lives and in some cases help define a person,” says neuroscientist Gregory Berns,

… Read the rest “Stories change your brain.”

Rarer than pterodactyl footprints…

13 January 2014 grant 0

Times of India reports that they’ve just found some pterosaur footprints in north India’s Jaisalmer Basin:

“Near the Thaiyat Village on the Jaisalmer-Jodhpur highway

… Read the rest “Rarer than pterodactyl footprints…”

Science Art: The Kepler Orrery II

12 January 2014 grant 0


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Click to view animation.

A visualization of every solar system discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope as of February 2012 – that’s 885 plaents in 361 systems. There’s… Read the rest “Science Art: The Kepler Orrery II”

Steampunk solutions: 19th-century tech used by Sandia fusion researchers

10 January 2014 grant 0

Laboratory Equipment has more on the Helmholz coil (a bit of antique lab machinery) and how one of its strange qualities might help Sandia’s “Z machine” fusion experiment… Read the rest “Steampunk solutions: 19th-century tech used by Sandia fusion researchers”

The impossible planet.

8 January 2014 grant 0

SEN has us baffled by a recently discovered planet that shouldn’t be there:

The new world is the farthest out from its home star of any previously found. It is 11 times more massive than

… Read the rest “The impossible planet.”

Earthquake lights go deeper

7 January 2014 grant 0

Nature looks at the widening gap in understanding earthquake lights… not a gap in our knowledge, but in the ground, as fault lines pull apart to create eerie lights before quakes: … Read the rest “Earthquake lights go deeper”

A positron and an electron walk into a bar…

6 January 2014 grant 0

The Guardian polls scientists to get their favorite (and corniest) science jokes:

? A weed scientist goes into a shop. He asks: “Hey, you got any of that inhibitor of 3-phosphoshikimate-carboxyvinyl

… Read the rest “A positron and an electron walk into a bar…”

Science Art: Bldng40cropped.jpg (CERN office building 40), by Gillis Danielsen.

5 January 2014 grant 0

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Click to embiggen

This is where European scientists work on experiments for the Compact Muon Spectrometer and Atlas, the project that found the Higgs boson.

Which is to say, smart people… Read the rest “Science Art: Bldng40cropped.jpg (CERN office building 40), by Gillis Danielsen.”

Sound levitation. No magnets. Sound.

3 January 2014 grant 0

The Telegraph marvels at physicists learning how to levitate and move solid objects using sound waves:

They then levitate match heads, drops of water, screws and nuts.

The researchers

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