Image from Wikimedia Commons, showing the winter solstice (for the northern hemisphere) at noon in the Central European time zone. Labeled in Latin.
Night is retreating!
Science News spreads the news of an underwater arms race. Sonar specialist T. Aran Mooney of Woods Hole has discovered that squid are invisible to sonar underwater:
… Read the rest “Invisible squid”…[B]y putting
No, it’s not the concept of living computer programs zooming around circuits on motorcycles made of light. It’s the way, motherboard.tv reveals, a rather clever designer… Read the rest “Tron’s (real) cultural legacy.”
PsychCentral is turning on to the real, measurable benefits that the clubbiest of club drugs has on schizophrenia, autism and other disorders:
… Read the rest “Ecstasy for autism.”Some scientists believe that the drug MDMA
From Mammalian Anatomy With Special Reference to the Cat by Alvin Davison, Ph.D., 1927. Found on archive.org.
Hyperspace professional Michio Kaku, writing in the BigThink blog, is thinking big about the most precious world in the universe:
… Read the rest “Planet of diamonds”The planet, called WASP-12b was observed with NASA’s
NASA wants a few good space songs.
Really. Just like this site, only, you know, on a much bigger scale (with a slightly narrower focus).
If you got ’em, send ’em to the space scientists!
I bet they tasted better than babies. Discovery explores the frankly terrifying implications of a new fossil discovery:
… Read the rest “Hobbit-eating storks.”Named Leptoptilos robustus, this newly discovered stork was similar
New Scientist offers hope that our amphibian friends might not all die horribly after all:
… Read the rest “Frogs might make it after all.”“It’s happening across a number of species,” says Michael Mahony at the University
“That junk food is gonna get right up in yer head and rot there, by gum!” spat the old timer from Culinate.com. “Jest you mark my words, kiddie. It’ll start takin’… Read the rest “Fast food on the brain.”
The Economist gets downright dreamy with its rundown of who’s the biggest hunk – and why:
… Read the rest “Who’s hottest – how?”[M]en often find women’s taste fickle and unfathomable. But ladies may not be entirely
So says Kazakhstan’s aging leader, in one of the strangest science stories to ever grace the Guardian’s pages. The fun part is that, crazy as it sounds, his life-extension … Read the rest “Give me LIFE, my scientists! LIFE!”
The Guardian takes a good look at what we can really learn from NASA’s arsenic-eating aliens this week:
… Read the rest “Arsenic, aliens and science writers”But to focus on the researchers would be to miss the point really. There may be
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