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 […]
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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. […]
The weed that can feed the world.
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 […]
Science Art: Front Cover, Chemistry of Photography by Mallinckrodt Chemical Works
An artisan, working with technology. A front cover image from 1940, found in the New York Public Library Digital Gallery.
Astronaut Chris Hadfield just wrote and recorded a song in space.
That’s it. Canada’s space hero did this on the International Space Station. You can hear the slight buzz of the station’s fans in the background. […]
Science Art: Leriche Syndrome Digital Subtraction Angiography by Hellerhoff.
We’ve talked about digital subtraction angiography before… taking X-ray images and using a computer to remove everything you *don’t* want to see. This image, of […]
Spider spins a spider decoy in its web…
Wired beholds an eerie arthropod self-portrait… a piece of functional art, a spider, by spider: In September, [biologist Phil] Torres was leading visitors into a […]
Space statistics: Martian astronauts would see a 1-megaton collision
MIT Technology Review crunches the numbers and figures that anyone who spends three years on Mars is going to witness an H-bomb-sized asteroid collision: Today. […]
Virus rebuilds unhealthy hearts
io9.com, appropriately enough, has the details on a treatment that seems straight out of science fiction – a virus that infects heart cells and turns […]
Leaked report: Global warming is actually happening.
Brace yourselves for more global warming news. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is ready to post its next report. Most of us, like Scientific […]
Flame Challenge returns… with TIME.
Remember Alan Alda’s quest to explain what a flame is so an 11-year-old would understand? He’s polled hundreds of elementary-school kids and is asking another […]