Science Art: RC540 stereo animation.gif by Brian0918
Click to embiggen and animate This is a large buckyball molecule – which is to say, a form of carbon, the same stuff in pencil […]
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Orphan planets
Popular Mechanics takes a look at the loneliest planets in the universe – the ones that drift around without a star to orbit: The researchers, […]
Earthquake warnings from above.
MIT’s Technology Review takes an interesting look at some atmospheric findings – hot flashes in the air, basically – that could help predict earthquakes: Dimitar […]
Stress alters kids’ chromosomes.
Nature reports on the deep damage suffered by kids in orphanages – not psychological, but down in their chromosomes: Children who spent their early years […]
Driving while absent.
No, PhysOrg says, if Google has its way, it won’t be illegal any more in Nevada if you want to send your car out for […]
We Are The Result Of This Asymmetry: A Song And Dance For Radiolab
The Vimeo page for this says it better than I could: On a hilltop in Maine, students at Colby College express their incredible joyfulness that […]
Science Art: CASENT0010677 (Cephalotes atratus), Antweb.
Click to embiggen Ants don’t actually spin webs. This striking image is one of what will ultimately be more than 11,700 photographs – no, wait, […]
The Soul of the Zombie Ant.
National Geographic has some creepy new insights into one of nature’s creepiest reproductive strategies. The zombie ants – insects whose brains have been hijacked by […]
Fracking stinkwater.
Nature looks at the odoriferous threat to our drinking water created by new methods of natural gas mining: Injecting large quantities of water and other […]
Eyes on the forest and the trees
Medical Xpress examines new ways we can train our minds to use “holistic processing” – that is, we can teach our eyes not to miss […]
A language-killing grudge.
The Ayapaneco language is about to die out, the Guardian reports, in part because the last two speakers aren’t talking to each other: Manuel Segovia, […]
Science Art: Xylophylla, by Olof Swartz, 1791 (detail)
Click to embiggen From a page of botanical babies drawn by Swedish botanist Olof Swartz just before the dawn of the 19th century. Swartz was […]
Found: God of silence. Slightly used. Won’t talk.
The (not exactly) god of silence and secrecy, Discovery reports, is at the heart of a new Egyptian antiquities mystery. Of four statues recovered by […]
Robot buddies.
Science Mag produces proof – actual, empirical proof – that nice guys really can finish first and that even killer robots can learn to care […]
Words on sling stones can SO hurt me.
That’s the gist of an AFP report on the messages ancient soldiers carved into their ammunition: Slingers, also known as sphendonetai, have been used in […]