Space berries!
Purdue University researchers have devised a menu for a mission to Mars (or further) – fresh strawberries grown in space: Cary Mitchell, professor of horticulture, […]
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Swap DNA with bugs.
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 […]
Science Art: Cerra Armazona at night, European Southern Observatory.
Click to embiggen 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 […]
Washing away.
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 […]
Fast glider goes… ooops.
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 […]
Science Art: Florida Everglades, Landsat satellite, 2000
Click to embiggen This is the Florida Everglades, the widest, slowest river in the world. Anything that grows in South Florida does so because of […]
…but the kind with a club that belongs to him.
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 […]
Science Art: Huge Solar Prominence Eruption, NASA STEREO
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 […]
What was I saying about whales?
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 […]
Science Art: Le Physale Cylindrique, Histoire naturelle de Lacépède, 1876.
Click to embiggen Another gorgeous old book illustration from Old Book Illustrations, this one from a Belgian natural history text. It’s a beached sperm whale, […]
Making pavement pay.
Covered this as a concept before here, but PhysOrg is reporting that a town in France is making step-powered pavement a reality: Authorities in Toulouse […]
Obama brings back Orion capsule.
Discovery News makes me curious, again, about the future of American space travel: President Obama is reviving the capsule component of the scuttled Constellation program […]
An older testament.
The Vancouver Sun unearths the story of a possible Assyrian source for the Hebrew covenant: The tablet, dating to about 670 BC, is a treaty […]
Sushi superpowers.
New Scientist hypes a pretty cool discovery about gene-swapping bacteria changing sushi-eaters’ digestion: Genes regularly shuttle between different bacteria, offering each other new traits such […]