How they found the giant squid (TED talk)
Marine biologist Edith Widder reveals the secrets to a successful squid hunt:
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Stem cell headline winner: “Bendable needle increases reach of a single injection to the brain.”
OUCH. Nature pulls no punches with OUCH. The ways they’re moving forward with stem cell therapies are pretty ingenious: Several laboratories are investigating ways to […]
Forbes follows how science gets started up.
Frida Polli, one of the financial folks at Forbes, is offering us a look at the sausage-factory of neuroscience funding: In 2007, after 6 years […]
Science Art: Indian Gharial by Wilhelm Eigener, 1958
Click to embiggen A sub-continental crocodilian, found on that good ol’ Scientific Illustration tumblog. It was painted by Wilhelm Eigener, one of Germany’s most sought-after […]
Wii builds better surgeons.
PLOSone is going to lead to videogame suites being installed in major training hospitals, I just know it, thanks to research showing that playing Nintendo […]
Slow and steady mutations save the species.
Or at least, Astrobiology says, save the species’ descendants. The secret of survival, on an evolutionary scale, isn’t a single lucky mutant, but a whole […]
“Human meat is not on the menu. Sorry.”
Reddit’s just had a Q&A with the CEO of a company dedicated to 3D printing edible meat: At Modern Meadow we’re developing technology to 3D-bioprint […]
Hubble snaps galactic vee.
Space Daily enthuses over a strange formation snapped by Hubble – a deep-space V made by two galaxies, overlapping like enormous wings in space: This […]
Science Art: Cephalaspis by John Dunn
A Devonian fish with a bony head. That means it was swimming around hundreds of millions of years before the dinosaurs. Found on the Scientific […]
“Once time runs backwards, we’ll….” Now wait a minute. What?
PhysOrg gets non-linear with their look at “time reversal” and how we might soon use it: Imagine a cell phone charger that recharges your phone […]
We’ll all be staring at quantum dots.
The Economist is gazing into the pretty colors…not of quantum computers, but quantum television screens: An LCD screen works with a backlight shining through red, […]
Finding the influential few. In medicine, in politics, and in social networks….
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 […]
Road workers discover four whales. (One very scary one.)
Not individual whales, but whole new species. Science has the details on the big, big discovery in California’s highway system: “In California, you need a […]
Science Art: Plate IV: Chilabothrus Inornatus and Dactyloa Edwardsii, by M&N Hanhart,1851.
Click to embiggen. Originally published in A naturalist’s sojourn in Jamaica, by Philip Gosse, who had awesome sideburns. And a relationship with M&N Hanhart, prolific […]
Meteor explodes over Urals. I’m not making that up.
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 […]