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Science Art: Plant Cell Structure, by Russell Kightley

13 January 2013 grant 0

chloroplasts like stained glass
Australian digital artist Russell Kightley does scientific visualization.

I found this particular vision on Scientific Illustration.

Panasonic builds a power loader

11 January 2013 grant 0

It’s a robot exoskeleton, Aliens-style. And it really works.

The guy who invented virtual reality – he thinks there’s something wrong with the internet.

9 January 2013 grant 0

Smithsonian magazine is comparing computer pioneer Jaron Lanier – one of the people who, indirectly, made what you’re reading (and the way you’re reading it) possible… Read the rest “The guy who invented virtual reality – he thinks there’s something wrong with the internet.”

Newest new Zeppelin is taking test flights. And landings.

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It’s the first rigid-body airship since the Hindenburg, says the Register. And the military is banking on Pelican to change the way we fly:

The 230ft-long, 18-ton demonstrator has

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Create your own robo-roach at home!

7 January 2013 grant 0

I looove DIY projects, and this one’s a doozy. Techli’s got the inside scoop on a Chicago science-artist’s system for not only creating remote-controlled cockroaches,… Read the rest “Create your own robo-roach at home!”

Science Art: From Under den Griechen Berhuempesten Gschichtschreibers sechs Bücher, by Siculus Diodorus, 1554.

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SiculusDiodorus_Under den Griechen Berhuempesten

I can’t read the German here, but it sure looks like an illustration of a jackal and another illustration of snakes and scorpions. I’m guessing this was a tour of Egypt…… Read the rest “Science Art: From Under den Griechen Berhuempesten Gschichtschreibers sechs Bücher, by Siculus Diodorus, 1554.”

They just invented the wire. (Electrodes that release opiates in the brain.)

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Laboratory Equipment reveals a quantum leap in tDCS – transcranial direct current stimulation, or zapping your brain to make it do things differently. As the regular reader knows… Read the rest “They just invented the wire. (Electrodes that release opiates in the brain.)”

Racism linked to a lack of creativity. (A surprise from the pigeonhole department.)

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Researchers at Tel Aviv University have mapped out the perceptual problem with racism, in a Psychological Science study looking at the way “essentialism” limits our ability… Read the rest “Racism linked to a lack of creativity. (A surprise from the pigeonhole department.)”

There is life under Antarctica’s ice.

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Nature celebrates the discovery of ancient life… not from the much-ballyhooed Lake Vostok project, but a smaller lake. Still frozen for a long, long time. And definitely home to … Read the rest “There is life under Antarctica’s ice.”

The weed that can feed the world.

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Well, maybe not *directly*… but Science Daily explains how scientists are watching Arabidopsis thaliana, a fast-growing, globally found weed known as mouse-eared cress, to learn… Read the rest “The weed that can feed the world.”