Into the K-hole and out of altogether darker hole… NPR looks at the new use for an old club drug (and veterinary anesthetic):
… Read the rest ““Special K” for depression.”[O]ne of the challenges in treating these severely depressed
E.D. Leavitt, Massachusetts mechanical engineer, designed many huge machines in the 1870s.They moved things, macerated and mangled them, mined and melted them.… Read the rest “Science Art: Leavitt Pumping Engine, from Appletons’ cyclopaedia of applied mechanic, 1880.”
Popular Mechanics recently investigated the forensics of the zombie head shot:
… Read the rest “The Walking Dead anatomy lesson.”Dr. Steven Schlozman, has written extensively about the brain function of undead zombies (as opposed to
Scientists have come one step closer to creating artificial life by building a cell membrane from scratch:
… Read the rest “Building cells from the outside in.”“We don’t understand this really fundamental step in our existence, which is
The Chronicle of Higher Education is watching closely as a tenured Stanford professor leaves his secure job to teach at an online startup:
… Read the rest “The new U: Take the red pill”Sebastian Thrun, a professor of computer science
I never thought that within my lifetime, we’d be planning – as PopSci reports – to send flying robots to find aliens on Saturn’s moons:
… Read the rest “Drones of Titan”Physicist Jason Barnes
This early ’60s vision of the future (in all likelihood, right now) was painted by visual futurist Syd Mead, who worked in industrial design as well as making films… Read the rest “Science Art: From United States Steel International, a porfolio of probabilities, by Syd Mead”
National Geographic ruins the illusion that maybe larks and mockingbirds might be safe from shark attacks. Nope. Songbirds are being found in tiger sharks’ stomachs:
… Read the rest “Sharks eat whatever they want. Even songbirds.”Marcus Drymon,
Science Daily tries to figure out what the Greek gorilla or Austrian orangutan were really like:
… Read the rest “The Great Apes of Europe.”To date scientists have assumed that great apes went extinct in Europe at least 9 million
The Independent goes way back, digging up the history of the diva of the pharaohs:
… Read the rest “Rock star buried in the Valley of the Kings”It is the only tomb of a woman not related to the ancient Egyptian royal families ever found there, said Mansour
Discovery savors the very faint aroma of a 1,300-year-old Mayan tobacco flask – the first physical evidence that Mayans used super-strong tobacco:
… Read the rest “Visionary Mayan tobacco.”None of the nicotine by-products
Image from Wikimedia Commons.
These symbols show steps in various chemical processes – the things you can do to change substances. Well, the things chemical engineers can do, one… Read the rest “Science Art: Pfd-symbols, from the free open source program, Dia.”
WaPo covers the war between a newly discovered frog and an itsy bitsy fish over which one is the smallest vertebrate:
… Read the rest “Fight to be tiniest.”An article Wednesday in the journal PLoS One named Paedophryne amauensis
MIT Tech Review is finally announcing part of that unimaginable future we’ve all been waiting for – fat-burning exercise in capsule form:
… Read the rest “Workout in a pill. No, really.”Researchers have discovered a natural
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