The guitar thing WORKS, man.
Science says so. Pacific Standard reports on two studies that find guys with guitars really are more attractive: Across cultures, the research would suggest, male […]
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Science Art: “Star Wounds” of the Earth, 400 million years, 1998 stamp, Ukraine
Par avion? [Image via Wikimedia Commons]
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 […]
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, they […]
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: Researchers at the University of […]
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 […]
Science Art: Resuscitation by mouth-to-mouth respiration, WHO/Red Cross photo
Click to embiggen slightly The robot is in trouble! We’ll have to help the robot breathe! This educational illustration comes from the National Institutes of […]
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: In June last year the IceCube neutrino telescope at […]
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: The three Google-HTC Nexus One smartphones are circling Earth at […]
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 […]
Science Art: The periodical cicada (”Magicicada septendecim”), Plate 7, from Insects, their way and means of living, by R. E. Snodgrass.
Click to embiggen It’s the year of magic. Or, well, the Magicicada septendecim – the 17-year magic cicada. Have you heard? They come back every […]
Buddy planets. We just found them, but they probably know each other.
New Scientist reports on the Kepler space telescope’s latest discovery: a pair of neighboring planets that could both support life – within easy reach of […]
One bank account makes saving easier.
PhysOrg flies in the face of the conventional wisdom that holds “out of sight, out of mind” as a savings strategy. Instead, we save better […]
Would you wear GMO silk?
Nature reveals how a mosquito-killing gene technique is being used to create better silk more efficiently: But male silkworms (Bombyx mori) are much more useful […]
The best food in space is shrimp cocktail.
The Atlantic reveals a culinary secret of near-Earth orbit. Astronauts love shrimp cocktail – and here’s why: Without gravity to pull blood toward the feet, […]