Thinking about science makes us better people.
Scientific American shies away from putting it that bluntly, but still. Psychologists at UC Santa Barbara found that just considering the scientific method, in all […]
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NASA engages the warp drive.
Space.com brings us hurtling into the future with the science of quantum thrusters… a real-life warp drive: A warp-drive-enabled spacecraft would look like a football […]
Death is slow. Slower than we thought.
Discovery takes a long look at a slow death… watching life leave cell by cell… bit by bit: David Gems from the Institute of Health […]
Overseer of the longest experiment has passed on.
RIP, John Mainstone, custodian of the Pitch Drop Experiment. Solid or liquid, it will continue to ooze so slowly. New Straits Times marks the
Science Art: Astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz spreads bean dip on a tortilla, from The Astronaut’s Cookbook, 2010
This NASA snapshot was found in the archive.org copy of Charles Bourland and Gregory Vogt’s The Astronaut’s Cookbook, Springer Science+Business Publications, 2010. The bottom half […]
Plants hear herbivores coming. No, really.
National Geographic reveals what really goes on in a plant’s… mind?… when sap-thirsty plant killers are on the prowl: [University of Wisconsin researcher John] Orrock […]
When we judge a musician, movement matters more than the music.
Nature strikes fear into the heart of the awkward would-be indie rocker with a study that shows people put more weight on the way a […]
New fossil sheds light on one long-lasting group of mammals.
National Geographic explains why multituberculates – flexible, cute little pre-rodents – are so important. Before vanishing 35 million years ago, they’d been around for 130 […]
Parents *shocked* by study linking soda to kids’ behavioral problems.
Science Daily doesn’t actually get into the parents’ responses, but it’s easy enough to imagine. Columbia University researchers have linked soft drinks to “aggression, attention […]
Science Art: Hearts and Lungs by Juan de Valverde, 1598
In which the dissector becomes the dissected as well, sternum reaching upward like a bird’s wings in flight. From Wikimedia Commons.
These guys are tracking the Space Station with coat hangers.
GigaOm has a great DIY project for space fans: Signals picked up by the antenna, which is made of a 10-foot wooden board and metal […]
Voyager has left the building.
Or rather the solar system. The University of Maryland has put its foot down and said, no matter where you want to put the borders […]
A regenerated heartbeat
Science Daily reports on a rebuilt heart – a mouse heart remade with human stem cells – that they’ve gotten to start beating: For the […]
Electricity is sapping our sleep.
Science Magazine examines our internal clock, and the power that sunlight has in saving us from being so tired of waking up tired: Turning lights […]
The worst learners are stressed-out men.
If everyone is stressed out, Scientific American seems to be saying, then women will have a mental advantage. That’s because stressed men are worse at […]