This Japanese Red-Bellied Newt was part of the payload aboard the Space Shuttle’s STS-65 mission, which carried a few odd creatures into orbit for the International Microgravity… Read the rest “Science Art: Japanese Red-Bellied Newt (Cynopus pyrrhogaster), from NASA’s IML-2”
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… Read the rest “SEA quiz: Who did what?”To celebration Black History Month, SEA staff has chosen five brilliant scientists and engineers for this
…is the plant. This plant, Discovery says. It’s broken the speed record for sucking animals to their deaths:
… Read the rest “Deadlier than the animal.”Their traps suck in prey in less than a millisecond, making this
Normally, when we think of the way we smell things, we think of the molecules of a smelly substance – like a rose or a garlic roll – wafting into the air and then landing on our olfactory… Read the rest “Our atomic noses.”
RSA Animate presents Steven Pinker’s frank lecture on euphemism, called “Language as a window to human nature”:
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PhysOrg makes me fight an overwhelming urge to start raving about “thinking caps” and “memory machines” with their look at how transcranial magnetic stimulation… Read the rest “Learning magnets.”
This is the infectious microbe (alive? not alive? who knows?) that causes Western equine encephalitis. It’s a deadly virus.
I can remember when they said taking pictures of viruses… Read the rest “Science Art: Western Equine Encephalitis Virus Taken With Cryo-Electron Microscope”
Reuters reports on a Russian mission to reach an oxygen-rich lake that’s been untouched for 15 million years:
… Read the rest “Sleeping beneath the ice.”“It’s minus 40 (Celsius) outside,” [Alex] Turkeyev
New Scientist listens to the art of subatomic particles:
… Read the rest “Violin and quanta.”The performance is the brainchild of composer and computer scientist Alexis Kirke from the University of Plymouth, UK, who has
Discovery makes me want to take a nap. Not because this research is boring, but because it suggests you can sleep your way to better recall:
… Read the rest “Sleep reminders.”After about 20 minutes, while the sleeping group’s
Alternative energy got a big boost from TechEye.net, which reports that a new generation of solar panels could double in efficiency:
… Read the rest “Better solar.”A team made of researchers from both UC Davis and UC Santa
Beautiful machine for skilled labor.
You can browse the whole illustrated encyclopedia of fin de siecle technology at archive.org.
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Humans weren’t best friends with dogs first, says the Discoveryon blog. Archaeologists have found evidence that foxes may have been our pets first:
… Read the rest “Why thank you, Br’er Fox….”Scientists analysing remains
Wired unearths the story of a gold-prospecting math whiz… sorry, geological statistician… who cracked the scratch-off ticket code:
… Read the rest “Lotto breaker.”The trick itself is ridiculously simple.
I’m sure MSNBC isn’t *trying* to be a downer when they report that too much optimism is bad for cancer patients’ chances of recovery:
… Read the rest “Keep looking up. But not THAT high.”The problem, some experts say, is
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