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Science Art: ATP Synthase, Essential Cell Biology.

9 May 2010 grant b 0

This video is from Essential Cell Biology, 3rd Edition by Alberts, Bray, Hopkin, Johnson, Lewis, Raff and Roberts (and apparently not from Tokyo Institute of Technology as credited elsewhere).… Read the rest “Science Art: ATP Synthase, Essential Cell Biology.”

“The Poetry of Reality” by Symphony of Science.

8 May 2010 grant b 0

More. They made more.


Yes.

Information here.… Read the rest ““The Poetry of Reality” by Symphony of Science.”

Watch out where the huskies go….

7 May 2010 grant b 0

NASA, Discovery News reports, has just found evidence of life on Earth. By locating yellow snow:

Using their Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on the EO-1 satellite, NASA has managed to identify

… Read the rest “Watch out where the huskies go….”

How climate change works.

6 May 2010 grant b 0

Finally, finally, NASA explains in clear, simple terms why they think humans are behind global warming:

Based on a combination of paleoclimate data and models, scientists estimate that

… Read the rest “How climate change works.”

Zap goes the mushroom.

5 May 2010 grant b 0

No, not like that. PhysOrg reveals the way lightning makes the mushrooms grow:

A four-year study carried out at Iwate University in northern Japan on ten species of mushroom (so far) has

… Read the rest “Zap goes the mushroom.”

Space berries!

4 May 2010 grant b 0

Purdue University researchers have devised a menu for a mission to Mars (or further) – fresh strawberries grown in space:

Cary Mitchell, professor of horticulture, and Gioia Massa,

… Read the rest “Space berries!”

Swap DNA with bugs.

3 May 2010 grant b 0

Feeling like you need more intimacy in your life? Science Daily reveals an alternative to finding that special person in your life. Nature provides a way for us to trade genes with insects… Read the rest “Swap DNA with bugs.”

Science Art: Cerra Armazona at night, European Southern Observatory.

2 May 2010 grant b 0



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This is the site where the Europeans are building the world’s largest visible-light telescope, the E-ELT, or European Extremely Large Telescope. The name isn’t… Read the rest “Science Art: Cerra Armazona at night, European Southern Observatory.”

Washing away.

30 April 2010 grant b 0

Slate (yeah, not the first place I look for science news, but hey) unearths the sad truth about beaches that aren’t going to be beaches much longer:

[Jim] Titus, the Environmental

… Read the rest “Washing away.”

Fast glider goes… ooops.

29 April 2010 grant b 0

So, you’d think this’d be bigger news, but I heard about it on the Geeky Gadgets blog. (That’s its actual name.) DARPA, the military research organization lost one of… Read the rest “Fast glider goes… ooops.”

Science Art: Florida Everglades, Landsat satellite, 2000

25 April 2010 grant b 0



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This is the Florida Everglades, the widest, slowest river in the world. Anything that grows in South Florida does so because of fresh water from here – from cypress… Read the rest “Science Art: Florida Everglades, Landsat satellite, 2000”

…but the kind with a club that belongs to him.

22 April 2010 grant b 0

New Scientist reopens that old, old scandal between we modern humans and our sexy, sexy Neanderthal cousins:

Instead, a team led by Jeffrey Long, at the University of New Mexico, found evidence

… Read the rest “…but the kind with a club that belongs to him.”

Science Art: Huge Solar Prominence Eruption, NASA STEREO

21 April 2010 grant b 0

What, you think that Christmas cracker in Iceland was something? This was last week’s real eruption:

This prominence is 500,000 miles long. That’s a stream of plasma 62 and… Read the rest “Science Art: Huge Solar Prominence Eruption, NASA STEREO”

Turn on.

20 April 2010 grant b 0

New York Times has yet another report on new breakthroughs in using psychedelic drugs to heal:

“All of a sudden, everything familiar started evaporating,” he recalled. “Imagine you fall

… Read the rest “Turn on.”

What was I saying about whales?

19 April 2010 grant b 0

BBC reports they’re delicious! And oh yeah, you may already have tasted them:

A genetic analysis of meat found in Los Angeles showed that it was identical to meat from a sei whale being

… Read the rest “What was I saying about whales?”

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Honorary Troubadours
  • Jonathan Coulton, Contributing Troubadour for Popular Science.
  • Laura Veirs, who knows her way around a polysyllable.
  • Thomas Dolby, godfather of scientific pop.
  • Squeaky, fact-based rock about fusion containment & rocket science.
  • Cosmos II, a.k.a. Boston University astronomer Alan Marscher.
  • Dr. Fiorella Terenzi, astrophysicist who makes music from cosmic radio sources.
  • Dr. Jim Webb, astronomy professor and acoustic guitarist.
  • Artichoke, the band behind 26 Scientists, Vols. I and II.
  • They Might Be Giants, unrelenting proponents of scientific popular song.
  • Symphonies of Science, the people who make Carl Sagan and others sing.
  • Giant Squid, doom metal about the sublime horrors of marine biology.
  • Gethan Dick,6 scientists, 6 musicians, 1 great album
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