Science Daily dwells on a bizarre reversal of the usual order of things:
… Read the rest “Man bites dog; bug eats frog.”…[I]n an unprecedented predator-prey role reversal, a certain group of ground beetle larvae are able to lure
Not new research, but I just learned that the lowest note in the Universe:
… Read the rest “Bb below the lowest C.”The black hole resides in the Perseus cluster of galaxies located 250 million light years from Earth. In 2002, astronomers
CBC News is reporting that the University of Ontario has found a connection between autistic behavior and digestion:
… Read the rest “Eating for autism?”UWO researchers investigated the “gut-brain” connection
A color plate from the BioDiversity Library’s edition of Our Freshwater Fish, first published in Leipzig in 1913.
Heinrich Harder, as well as illustrating natural… Read the rest “Science Art: Wels (Catfish) by Heinrich Harder, from Unsere Süßwasserfische by Dr. Emil Walter, 1913.”
It’s, Ars Technica explains, a quantum thing – but looking bigger:
… Read the rest “Entangled diamonds.”Normally, two particles that can be described using separate mathematical descriptions. But, under certain
…Probably.
And now, they know where to look the next time they fire up the big collider – in the 124 to 126 GeV (gigaelectron volt) range.
… Read the rest “Did they just find the God Particle? (Answer…)”Taken individually, none of these excesses
LiveScience shows just how canny little babies are in selecting grown-ups to emulate:
… Read the rest “Babies mimic grown-ups… if they trust them.”Researchers divided 60 babies between 13 months and 16 months into two groups. In the first group,
This funny looking can with the tower on top was America’s first ride into space. Wasn’t very big. Didn’t have a lot of electronics. Not so many… Read the rest “Science Art: Mercury Spacecraft, by McDonnell/NASA”
I’ve just been reading TWO do-it-yourself space missions. Paul M. Davis, on Sharable.com, reports on a Danish project to construct a two-man space capsule:
… Read the rest “From your back yard to outer space. (With you on board!)”Kristian von Bengtson
On the BBC, a CERN physicist just dramatically announced that they’ve found the Higgs boson… maybe:
… Read the rest “Did they just find the God Particle?”The two teams of scientists work independently, using two separate detectors
Because sometimes scuttling just isn’t enough. Wired gets up close and personal with the cockroach that, like its cricket cousins, jumps where it needs to go – and then some… Read the rest “Leaping cockroaches!”
Ars Technica looks at the defense industry of tomorrow, when secure factories are replaced by crowds of tinkerers:
… Read the rest “DARPA’s open factory.”[T]he agency’s Adaptive Vehicle Make project may reinvent manufacturing
Physorg hearkens to the growing thunder of massive, woolly feet as Japanese and Russian researchers declare they’re one step closer to bringing mammoths back:
… Read the rest “Closer to a cloned mammoth.”Teams from the Sakha
Nature reveals why the yeti crab will never go hungry. It grows methane-based bacterial gardens on its own claws:
… Read the rest “Crab grows garden on its claws”The yeti crab — so-called because of the hair-like bristles that cover its
This wasn’t a machine for giving new students tests. It was a machine for testing how strong materials were.
My understanding is that no new students were ever tested… Read the rest “Science Art: Testing Machine, from The New Students’ Reference Work, 1914.”
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