This hypnotic image seems to have traveled out of Asa Smith’s book, into David Rumsey’s cartography collection and from there into a Zazzle poster collection before winding… Read the rest “Science Art: Orbits of the Planets by Asa Smith, 1850”
Tecca reports on the 50 percent mutation rate in insects near the nuclear site:
… Read the rest “Mutant butterflies of Fukushima.”Tens of thousands of residents were displaced and officials assured the world that the release of harmful
Mac fans should have a *field day* coming up with headlines for this ABC.net.au piece on Bill Gates’ noble new quest – to reinvent the toilet:
… Read the rest “Bill Gates to build a better toilet.”A charitable foundation founded
That’s the tempting pitch made by a team from the University of Adelaide and University of Colorado, who’ve come up with a way to block opioid addiction in the brain:
… Read the rest “Heroin: now with all the pain relief, and none of the addiction.”Laboratory
NPR takes a close look at an eye-catching insect… a new species of lacewing entomologists discovered on Flickr:
… Read the rest “New species discovered… on Flickr.”[Shaun] Winterton, a senior entomologist at the California Department
I can’t outdo the BBC’s headline on this story about a beautiful application for a strange, new material:
… Read the rest “Spider web glass protects birds on the Holy Island”A lookout tower at Lindisfarne has installed it to protect the hundreds
They look even more reptilian from the *inside*.
This image was part of one of those wonderful 19th-century German encyclopedias, but I found it in the New York Public Library Digital Gallery.
Boston Globe blows the lid off an M.I.T. syndicate that appears to have made a cool $8 million fixing the lottery:
… Read the rest “If you were an MIT math student, you’d fix the lottery too.”[Massachusetts Inspector General Gregory W.] Sullivan’s report
Wired (suitably enough) gets all hepped up over traces of a prehistoric Starbucks in Cahokia:
… Read the rest “Caffeine Junkies of the Lost Metropolis”In a new study, researchers have found the first direct evidence of black drink — not in shells
Laboratory Equipment explores “brain fitness programs” and the way computer games can boost seniors’ memory and alertness:
… Read the rest “Not quite video games for elderly brains, but almost.”The [UCLA] team studied 59 participants
The Bangkok Post unearths the forgotten past of the lush, humid Antarctic jungle:
… Read the rest “Antarctic rainforest ready to be reborn.”The study of sediment cores drilled from the ocean floor off Antarctica’s east coast revealed fossil
The rovers don’t seem to have the same way with words that Neil Armstrong did. From Curiosity’s twitter feed:
“I’m safely on the surface of Mars. GALE CRATER I … Read the rest “Curiosity is on Mars”
A contented sloth peers out of the pages of St. George Mivart’s American Varieties of Animal Life. I have no idea who the artist is, or even why a book on American animals has aardvarks… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. 68, The Two-Toed Sloth, American Types of Animal Life, 1893.”
ScienceBlogs pours it on with research that links a popular artificial butter flavor with one of the brain-destroying processes of Alzheimer’s disease:
… Read the rest “Butter-flavored Alzheimer’s.”It found evidence that
The Creators Project is already turning attention from London to Rio, where Swiss engineers are planning to erect a giant, power-generating waterfall:
… Read the rest “Olympics 2016: powered by waterfall.”Designed by Swiss firm, RAAFA,
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