A decent illustration’s worth a dozen pictures.
That’s what this Scientific American column is saying, pretty much. I can’t beat illustrator Kalliopi Monoyios’ blog-ready headline: 5 Reasons Your Camera Won’t Steal My […]
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Shamrocks, Saint Patrick, and… Polar Bears?
What could be more Irish than a polar bear? Nothing, say Penn State gene researchers. Because all polar bears are Irish immigrants: Polar and brown […]
Moved by music
Wired, uh, gets physical (their phrase!) while looking at the way music affects our bodies: Biorhythm: Music and the Body is an exhibition of sonic […]
Science Art: Reflections by NASA/Bill Ingalls
Click to embiggen This is it. This image of space shuttle Atlantis was taken shortly after the rotating service structure was rolled back at Launch […]
Where’s Atlantis now?
Live shuttle tracking is going on here, so you’ll know when to wave as the flight passes overhead!
Happy Neptune Day!
Nature reminds us that Neptune’s about to complete its first orbit since it was discovered: Next week, Neptune will complete its first full orbit of […]
Germ-free fabric
PhysOrg keeps itself clean with shirts, towels and unmentionables that’ll remain germ-free for good: University of Georgia researcher [Jason Locklin… an assistant professor of chemistry […]
Treasure in the mud.
Nature uncovers a wealth of rare earth lying beneath the ocean floor: The rare-earth elements — metals such as lanthanum and neodymium — are used […]
Zombie stars and dark energy
There’s a new kind of star in the skies… or at least a new name for some of them, reports Universe Today. They’re larger-than-usual Type […]
Science Art: Fig. 179. – Profile view of a human embryo of about three weeks, showing the cephalic visceral arches and clefts and their relations to the arterial arches, from Quain’s Elements of Anatomy, 1898
This is a human embryo, from the first volume of an 1898 textbook for college students. The book was actually first published in the 1840s, […]
A window of skin
New Scientist sees through me like glass. In fact, my skin could be better than glass: In 2007, Allard Mosk and colleagues at Twente University […]
Fear remembers.
Next time you’re stuck trying to get Boyle’s Law or some cute person’s email into your memory, think of something awful. That’s MSNBC’s solution, based […]
Plastic isn’t sexy.
Not just looking at – being around it. Science Daily has the skinny on how BPA is making male mice less attractive to females: The […]
Google vs. Nonsense
In my day job, I’m not a scientist – I’m a writer. So it pleases me immensely to see this New York Times piece on […]
Evolution machine
Genetic engineers have, in the latest New Scientist, devised a device that (deviously) speeds up the process of evolution: For instance, a yeast engineered to […]