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 […]
Science
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, […]
Science Art: From Under den Griechen Berhuempesten Gschichtschreibers sechs Bücher, by Siculus Diodorus, 1554.
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 […]
They just invented the wire. (Electrodes that release opiates in the brain.)
Laboratory Equipment reveals a quantum leap in tDCS – transcranial direct current stimulation, or zapping your brain to make it do things differently. As the […]
Racism linked to a lack of creativity. (A surprise from the pigeonhole department.)
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 […]
There is life under Antarctica’s ice.
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. […]