Oil research stalled.
Nature gets a little rough with the sloppy White House response to the ongoing Gulf of Mexico mess: On 15 June, BP announced that it […]
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Dirtier. Happier. Smarter.
Science Daily makes me eager to get out in the woods and get dirty. Mostly, just to dig around in the fallen leaves, but also […]
Put your face in space.
Seriously. NASA wants to take you into orbit. Or at least a likeness of you. It’s their way of celebrating the final two shuttle missions. […]
Science Art: Ursa Major, Sidney Hall
Click to embiggen vastly. This is the Great Bear, which has led our eyes to the North Star for centuries. Sidney Hall was an engraver […]
Our salts aren’t the same.
Science Daily has new research that shows people sense salt differently. Genes play a role in what healthy food tastes like to supertasters: The research […]
Better prostate exam? Good dog!
LiveScience examines the way dogs save human lives – by sniffing out prostate cancer: Doctors at Paris’s Hospital Tenon trained the [Belgian Malinois] dogs to […]
Take it ALL off.
The bloggers at ufunk.net have appealed to my prurient side with the Eizo Pin-up Calendar: Miss June, 2010. Yes, it’s a calendar that really shows […]
Welcome home, Hayabusa.
BBC News reports on the long-awaited return of the first probe to make it out to an asteroid and back: The Hayabusa pod was picked […]
Hang onto that four-leaf clover.
PhysOrg produces scientific proof that superstitions kinda do bring luck: Damisch teamed with colleagues Barbara Stoberock and Thomas Mussweiler, also from the University of Cologne, […]
Science Art: “When I heard the learn’d astronomer” by Walt Whitman.
WHEN I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the […]
Kids of same-sex parents: eerily well-adjusted.
CNN throws some science at the ongoing ruckus over same-sex parenting: A nearly 25-year study concluded that children raised in lesbian households were psychologically well-adjusted […]
Body power. That’s hot.
Forbes traces the development of devices powered by body heat: A resting male can put out between 100 and 120 watts of energy, in theory […]
Crocodile surf
Nature tracks crocodile migrations, showing how they get around by surfing: Zoologists didn’t know how the reptiles travelled such long distances given the sustained level […]
When the coconut crabs came for Earhart.
I’ve been following this bit of research for years, and now Discovery News has an update. TIGHAR has shed a grim, haunting light on Amelia […]
Once it hits the Gulf Stream….
I didn’t really need a computer simulation to show me this because I know how the Gulf Stream works, but here. Wired provides a look […]