Remember the Flame Challenge? Alan Alda’s quest to find someone who can explain at an elementary-school level what a flame is? Well, an American quantum optics student studying … Read the rest “Ben Ames wins the Flame Challenge. He shows how fire works.”
We’ve featured prehistoric illustrator Charles L. Knight on these pages before.
While he’s best known for his dinosaur portraiture, here he moved a little… Read the rest “Science Art: Le Moustier Neanderthals, by Charles L. Knight.”
Graphene, as we all now know, is the latest strange form of carbon to wow material scientists with its unusual properties. Well, New Scientist shows that graphene is even stranger than we… Read the rest “Weird carbon goes *plasmonic*.”
But do they need supervision? Discover reports on the the rare humans who can see colors the rest of us can’t:
… Read the rest “Mutant women have super vision.”Living among us are people with four cones, who might experience a range
Science News examines one system for making music – by taking noise and using thumbs-up or thumbs-down votes to refine it:
… Read the rest “Musical selection. (Or how to evolve a hit.)”Inspired in part by long-running experiments probing the
New Scientist makes one more argument for breast-feeding, with research that shows breast milk seems to wipe out the virus that causes AIDS:
… Read the rest “Mother’s milk really is safe – it kills HIV.”Previous research had hinted at breast milk’s
Nature profiles Adrian Owens, a man who uses brain scans to communicate with patients in a persistent vegetative state:
… Read the rest “Reading the minds of comatose patients.”Adrian Owen still gets animated when he talks about patient 23. The
Dark field microscopy is the art of using indirect light to illuminate specimens under your microscope lens; because the light is indirect, it doesn’t shine into the microscope,… Read the rest “Science Art: Mysis2kils: Mysis Zooplankton by Uwe Kils.”
Guardian sheds new light on our so-called primitive cousins, the Neanderthals, by looking at the the oldest cave paintings ever found:
… Read the rest “Neanderthals made beautiful things.”Now comes what could be the final nail in the coffin
What more needs to be said? Wall Street Journal has the skinny on Dark Matter:
… Read the rest “GZA from Wu-Tang is making an album… with Neil DeGrasse Tyson (and other scientists)”On an early May afternoon in the offices of Neil deGrasse Tyson, the director of the Hayden Planetarium, a model
Nature has an item for the Eye-Rolling Desk at the Bureau of Bad Science. Hungarian officials are taking a hard look at a genetic analysis firm apparently specializing in “racial … Read the rest “Bad science comes back: Eugenics pops up in Eastern Europe.”
That’s the mysterious question MedicalXpress may be answering with their look at a study of people infected with HIV who never come down with AIDS:
… Read the rest “How are they immune to HIV?”Only about one person in 300 has
BBC gets into some *really* vintage sound, grooving with the world’s oldest flutes:
… Read the rest “The oldest instruments ever played.”The flutes, made from bird bone and mammoth ivory, come from a cave in southern Germany which contains
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This somber fellow illustrated the “Face” article in Robert Bentley Todd’s Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology. He was drawn by Richard … Read the rest “Science Art: Figure 134, from “Face,” by Richard Partridge, in The Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology, 1839”
PhysOrg knows, thanks to this math professor’s blind-spot-eliminating side-view mirror:
… Read the rest “What’s behind your car?”A side mirror that eliminates the dangerous “blind spot” for drivers has
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