Pink, but not pretty.
LiveScience joins forces with Peggy Orenstein to take on the “pink princess” culture and what it’s doing to our daughters: You spoke to scientists about […]
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Cognitive Toolkit Improvement
Edge magazine has rounded up some pretty impressive brainy folks – from J. Craig Ventner to Brian Eno, P.Z. Myers and Martin Rees – and […]
Science Art: Aerostatic Cabriolet of Tomorrow, by Harry Grant Dart, c. 1905.
Click to embiggen Harry Grant Dart was an illustrator, newspaperman and creator of “The Explorigator” comic strip… and a man in the suffragette era who […]
What infection looks like.
New Scientist has microscopic video of what malaria looks like bursting into a blood cell: Jake Baum at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of […]
A gentler Eoraptor
Nature breaks the news to us that small, fierce prehistoric predator Eoraptor – the “dawn-predator” – might have been a plant-eater all along: Many palaeontologists […]
I’ll have to unpack my rocket ship.
Wired is bursting a few bubbles by reporting that Gliese 581g – the first habitable planet discovered around another star – may not exist at […]
Music makes us high.
ArsTechnica explores the way music intoxicates us – with dopamine: To learn more about the music/brain/stimulation process, the McGill researchers followed subjects through the ‘chills’ […]
Zap the ringing away.
One that hits close to my heart. University of Texas researchers have come up with a way to zap tinnitus: Researchers Dr. Michael Kilgard and […]
Science Art: PIA13755: Textures of ‘Santa Maria’ Crater, Sol 2476 , Mars Rover Opportunity & NASA.
Click to embiggen The Mars Rover Opportunity considers the textures of the Santa Maria crater on its 2,746th day on Mars. There are no footprints […]
Black Plants in Twilight Eternal.
Scientific American paints an eldritch picture of what lies at the edges of a distant star… a world of dim, twilit grotesqueries arranged in a […]
Smart Helmets
As if American football players don’t get enough flack from rugby-playing nations, Wired is reporting that their helmets are going electronic: Now, according to The […]
Cousin planet.
Astronomers have finally confirmed, NPR reports, the discovery of the very first Earth-like planet somewhere else in space: Astronomers have found hundreds of planets outside […]
Following leatherbacks.
The Guardian knows where the world’s largest sea turtles go: Matthew Witt, a researcher at the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at the University of […]
Scent of tears.
It’s a real turn-off, according to PhysOrg.com. They found that a chemical in women’s tears kills the mood for men – even if the crying […]
Science Art: Alligator and Snake by Maria Sibylla Merian
An illustration by Maria Sibylla Graff Merian, daughter of an engraver, step-daughter of a painter and careful observer of the natural world. She carefully documented […]