Science Art: Finite Element Mesh for a Klein Surface, by Cristian Barbarosie, 2009.
Click to embiggen An inside that is also an outside, as depicted in Python. From
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Want a cleaner Mississippi? Put some mussel into it!
New Scientist reveals how scientists are looking into the muddy, murky water of the Mississippi River… by getting mussels with electronic backpacks to do the […]
Science Art: “One Today,” by Richard Blanco
Miami-raised poet and engineer Richard Blanco was selected to write a poem for today’s presidential inauguration. It begins and ends with the sky. Here’s what […]
Solar powered animal.
New Scientist‘s Zoologger celebrates Ambystoma maculatum, the first known vertebrate to get energy directly from sunlight: Then in 2011 the story gained an additional twist. […]
Science Art: Cattleya Maxima Backhousei by John Nugent Fitch, 1886
A hothouse flower, far from home. Mr. Fitch drew this picture – one of an awful lot – for The Orchid Album: Comprised of Coloured […]
High on music.
NPR’s Tom Huizenga wants to know why he gets blissed out when he hears a great musical performance. So he asks musical neurologist Dan Levitin […]
Hello, Mars! This won’t hurt a bit.
New Scientist opens wide to tell us Mars Rover Curiosity is ready to drill into the Red Planet: Chemical analysis from one of the rover’s […]
Dope smokers maybe not so dopey.
Nature reports that the link between youthful indulgence in marijuana and IQ loss might be overstated: Ole Røgeberg, a labour economist at the Ragnar Frisch […]
Tadpole tails are strong medicine
Laboratory Equipment goes all comic book superhero with a medical story on researchers taking the power of regeneration from tadpole tails: For several years Prof. […]
Antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea. If there was any doubt the party was over…
US News pictures a world with incurable sexually transmitted diseases: The fears of major health organizations have come true: Gonorrhea that is immune to the […]
Science Art: Plant Cell Structure, by Russell Kightley
Australian digital artist Russell Kightley does scientific visualization. I found this particular vision on Scientific Illustration.
Panasonic builds a power loader
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.
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) […]
Newest new Zeppelin is taking test flights. And *landings*.
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 […]
Create your own robo-roach at home!
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, […]