The Economist is gazing into the pretty colors…not of quantum computers, but quantum television screens:
… Read the rest “We’ll all be staring at quantum dots.”An LCD screen works with a backlight shining through red, blue or green
Nature looks at the star power of “network theory,” curious statistics that control all kinds of complicated systems. They’ve found that even really complex networks… Read the rest “Finding the influential few. In medicine, in politics, and in social networks….”
Not individual whales, but whole new species. Science has the details on the big, big discovery in California’s highway system:
… Read the rest “Road workers discover four whales. (One very scary one.)”“In California, you need a paleontologist and an
Originally published in A naturalist’s sojourn in Jamaica, by Philip Gosse, who had awesome sideburns. And a relationship with M&N Hanhart, prolific publishers… Read the rest “Science Art: Plate IV: Chilabothrus Inornatus and Dactyloa Edwardsii, by M&N Hanhart,1851.”
You may have heard about this by now, but a 10-ton chunk of space rock slammed into the atmosphere over Chelyabinsk, Russia, and exploded, RT and dozens of other outlets have reported. The… Read the rest “Meteor explodes over Urals. I’m not making that up.”
CNet reports on NASA researchers who may have snapped the first pictures of a new black hole being born:
… Read the rest ““Breathe, supernova! Now PUSH!” (Watching a black hole being born.)”Caught on film by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the “remnant,”
Nature examines the biology of fear – and how researchers have succeeded in creating fear in the fearless:
… Read the rest “This is how you scare the fearless. Neurologically.”Many studies on animals over the years have shown that the amygdala, a small,
Nature reports on the algorithm researchers have devised to find (or recreate) the ancestors of modern languages:
… Read the rest ““Bituqen” is Proto-Polynesian for “star.” A computer figured that out.”Statistician Alexandre Bouchard-Côté of the University of British
Slate examines the mysteries of the mass extinction that killed all the dinosaurs… except the birds:
… Read the rest “Not just an asteroid. What *else* killed the dinosaurs?”“Dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid 65 million years ago” is now an indicator
This came from a series of supplements in California textbooks in the 1960s – the peak of the Space Race.
This is an image of promise. There is a better tomorrow out there in the void. … Read the rest “Science Art: Exploring the Universe, from Looking Into Science supplements, 1965”
No, he’s not doing *that* on the ISS. The commander is, like The Postal Service, making music via a long-distance collaboration… only his is with the earthbound Ed Robertson… Read the rest “Commander Hadfield gets together with Barenaked Lady.”
Harvard researcher Ted Kaptchuk is mastering the medical secrets of sleight-of-mind by figuring out how to use placebos as real medicine:
… Read the rest “Real fake medicine isn’t really fake. It’s real. But how real?”Last year, he and colleagues from several Harvard-affiliated
Time is dibsing front-row seats to the (potentially) big show when a black hole slurps down a gas cloud this fall:
… Read the rest “Black hole, light show.”Back in 2011, astronomers spotted an interstellar gas cloud plunging more
Sounds unnatural or absurd, doesn’t it? But that’s what the internet is making possible, according to Nature (whose publishers should be a little worried). Researchers … Read the rest “Journals without publishers.”
This device is “a regulateur des intermittences”, according to La Nature. I’m not sure what “intermittences” are exactly, but Gustave Trouvet was going… Read the rest “Science Art: Appareil Electromedical de G. Trouvet, from La Nature, 1878”
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