This, the text tells me, is an “outside-spring indicator, by Messrs. Elliott Bros.” The spring is not exposed to high temperature, which makes it better for indicating. I’m… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. 100 (Outside-Spring Indicator) from Steam-engine Theory and Practice by William Ripper, 1922”
Yep. Scientific American has more on the unmanned aircraft that NASA and the USGS is using to explore the alien landscape of northeastern California:
… Read the rest “Flying robot maps Surprise Valley”Yesterday marked the first day of the
Machines, BBC reports, are one step closer to personhood, thanks to Yale researchers inventing Nico, a robot who knows himself:
… Read the rest “The robot knows itself.”“It is a spatial reasoning task for the robot to understand
Say that five times fast. Harvard Gazette wraps its tendrils around a new way to build springs based on the coiling shoots of cucumber vines:
… Read the rest “Climbing cukes clinch kinky springs.”Harvard researchers, captivated by a strange
The Independent has a surprisingly lucid summary of a 25-year longitudinal study of cannabis users from ages 13 to 38. And they found that teen marijuana users dropped their IQs by 8 points… Read the rest “Cannabis does lower IQ. By about 8 points.”
It’s a bacterium. It preys on insects. And Scientific American makes me worry that one way or another, they’ll figure out a way to make us eat our own brains too:
… Read the rest “It makes them EAT THEIR OWN BRAINS. And even worse….”As well as passing
It’s an egg! A jacana laid it on some tropical riverbank or lake shore sometime in the 1800s, just so Alphonse Millot could come along and immortalize it in the pages of an encyclopedia.… Read the rest “Science Art: Oeufs 2b, 29, by Adolphe Millot, Nouveau Larousse Illustré [1897-1904]”
NIH reports that cutting calories by two-thirds, contrary to what you might expect, might not add years to your lifespan:
… Read the rest “So maybe that reduced-calorie diet won’t extend your life after all….”Scientists have found that calorie restriction—a diet comprised
EurekAlert goes back 230 million years to uncover the most ancient arthropods ever found:
… Read the rest “Oldest insects ever.”The amber droplets, most between 2-6 millimeters long, were buried in outcrops high in the Dolomite
Nature sniffs out a technique for using smells to pick up new information – and new emotional responses – in your sleep:
… Read the rest “Learn in your sleep. With your nose….”Anat Arzi of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot,
The BBC reveals that English (and just about every other European language) descends from an ancestor that was not Russian, as was the popular belief, but Turkish… according to a … Read the rest “Our languages are Turkish. Virally so.”
This painting was one of the winners of the Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest 2007, a mathematical art contest.
I suppose nowadays, fractal art seems very, very 1990s. But still –… Read the rest “Science Art: Jungle Allure by Diane Walker”
How can Christian Science Monitor be so calm about this? Curiosity is on an alien planet vaporizing stuff with lasers:
… Read the rest “Our ROBOT is SHOOTING LASERS at MARS.”NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has zapped its first rock in what
The Daily Galaxy says Saturn’s big moon, Titan, could be a life-making machine:
… Read the rest “Titan is making DNA. Or could be.”Saturn’s moon Titan has many of the components for life without liquid water. But the orange
BBC dispels the myth that Monday’s any more miserable than any other weekday (with the exception, of course, of Friday):
… Read the rest “Monday’s no worse than Tuesday, say grim-faced scientists.”US investigators who looked at a poll of 340,000 people found
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