Draw your own circuits with nanotube pencils.
Extreme Tech gets right to the point of a new technology – a mechanical pencil that can draw functional electronic circuits: With MIT’s carbon nanotube […]
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Scientists: You can’t trust scientists.
Fraud, reports Laboratory Equipment, is a growing problem in published research papers: A review of retractions in medical and biological peer-reviewed journals finds the percentage […]
M&M waste gives bees honey of different colors.
French beekeepers, Russia Today tells us, were mystified when their hives started producing rainbow-colored honey – but were even more concerned when they found out […]
The Force is strong in this worm.
Thrilled, Guardian is to introduce to its readers a new submarine species they’re calling the Jedi acorn worm: Yoda purpurata is one of three new […]
Science Art: Pneumatische Fundation (Senkkasten Caisson), from Meyers Konversationslexikon, 1889
A caisson is a machine for working under water. Meyers Konversations-Lexikon is a German encyclopedia. Rise, German engineers. Rise. Dive, German engineers. Dive. Image found […]
Mighty bacteria make gold. Not a cold, gold.
Michigan State University biochemists (and science artists!) have made a germy philosopher’s stone: “Microbial alchemy is what we’re doing – transforming gold from something that […]
Half the Great Barrier Reef is gone.
And, says the Sydney Morning Herald, more than three-quarters of the reef will have vanished within a decade: A long-term investigation of the reef by […]
Electric tongue tastes proteins.
Laboratory Equipment finds a whole new depth to that umami thing. French chemists have devised an artificial tongue sensitive enough to tell the difference between […]
Eight new mammals discovered in Peru.
National Geographic reveals the night monkeys and other bizarre creatures of the 70,000 acre jungle that explorers are calling “a heaven of biodiversity”: Rarely seen […]
Science Art: Tardigrade
Click to embiggen Is it cute? It’s a tardigrade, also known as a water bear. That’s a cute name. And they’re tiny, too, which is […]
Buddhist “Iron Man” found by Nazis is from space.
Once again, New Scientist delivers a headline I can’t beat. A statue the Nazis brought to Germany from Tibet has been found to have been […]
Tesla unveils the electric filling station.
Gigaom has the scoop on Tesla’s bid to change the face of America – by introducing a network of electric-car charging stations: Eectric car maker […]
Science Art: Simplest Mode of Development of Monads and Fungi from the Pellicle, 1871.
A black-and-white birth sequence. From archive.org’s copy of “On Some Heterogenetic Modes of Origin of Flagellated Monads, Fungus-Germs, and Ciliated Infusoria”, by H. Bastian in […]
SONG: Particle
SONG: “Particle.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant (with apologies to Antonio Vivaldi). SOURCE: Based on “How Fungi Create the Amazon’s Clouds”, […]
The way you walk is just the way YOU walk. And the computer knows it.
Laboratory Equipment reveals how computers can now ID you by watching you walk: he National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has developed a walking gait recognition system […]