Computing with light.
Science Daily isn’t talking about fiberoptics. They’re looking at the latest breakthroughs that take the “electrons” out of “electronics” … Read the rest “Computing with light.”
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“Space Oddity” by Commander Chris Hadfield
If you’re going to say goodbye to the International Space Station….
Science Art: Doris, from Le Larousse Pour Tous, 1909.
“Genre de mollusques gastropodes, renfermant des animaux nus, de touts les mers.”
A popular genre of gastropods. Also the name of a boat (a dory, I reckon) and a mythological… Read the rest “Science Art: Doris, from Le Larousse Pour Tous, 1909.”
Plants talk. Using fungus-phones.
BBC opens the weird world of vegetable communication, revealing the fungal networks plants use to signal one another:
… Read the rest “Plants talk. Using fungus-phones.”But below ground, most land plants are connected by fungi called mycorrhizae.
Self-assembling robot worms.
Inhabitat heralds the end of human dominance on Earth with news of a 3D-printed worm that can build itself out of its own parts:
… Read the rest “Self-assembling robot worms.”Researchers at Harvard and MIT teamed up to produce a 3D-printed
The guitar thing WORKS, man.
Science says so. Pacific Standard reports on two studies that find guys with guitars really are more attractive:
… Read the rest “The guitar thing WORKS, man.”Across cultures, the research would suggest, male musicians are viewed
An antibiotic robs pretty women of their power over men. I am not making that up.
Nature publishes a study on minocycline (remember that name, stupid men, it’s a kind of tetracycline), which not only kills germs but also keeps men from trusting attractive women… Read the rest “An antibiotic robs pretty women of their power over men. I am not making that up.”
Cannibals of Jamestown
Smithsonian unfolds an ugly story archaeologists have uncovered of the first “successful” English settlement in America – at Jamestown, where settlers got so hungry,… Read the rest “Cannibals of Jamestown”
Forget chess-playing computers. Here’s a baseball robot.
Wired (via CNN) is sizing up the new guy on the mound – a mechanical brain designed to outsmart pitchers:
… Read the rest “Forget chess-playing computers. Here’s a baseball robot.”Researchers at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo and the
Immigrant kids have fewer allergies.
Healthline doesn’t seem to be jumping to any conclusions here… just remarking that if you’re American-born, you’re more likely to have allergies than if you’re… Read the rest “Immigrant kids have fewer allergies.”
Science Art: Resuscitation by mouth-to-mouth respiration, WHO/Red Cross photo
The robot is in trouble! We’ll have to help the robot breathe!
This educational illustration comes from the National Institutes of Health “History… Read the rest “Science Art: Resuscitation by mouth-to-mouth respiration, WHO/Red Cross photo”
Something strange was found in Antarctica. Something alien. And very, very small.
New Scientist has more on the possible discovery of two cosmic neutrinos near the South Pole:
… Read the rest “Something strange was found in Antarctica. Something alien. And very, very small.”In June last year the IceCube neutrino telescope at the South Pole reported the sighting of two
Smartphone satellites. NASA’s sending phones into orbit.
LA Times reports on the latest low-budget, off-the-shelf NASA experiment, sending three smartphones into orbit:
… Read the rest “Smartphone satellites. NASA’s sending phones into orbit.”The three Google-HTC Nexus One smartphones are circling Earth at an altitude
Have sanctions helped Cubans live longer?
Nature wades into international politics (and some pretty harsh facts) with a theory for the “unintended consequences” file. Researchers are floating the idea that an international… Read the rest “Have sanctions helped Cubans live longer?”