Life is dangerous.
NPR has introduced me to the Medea Principle; just as the Gaia Principle states that a planet can be thought of as a single living […]
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Hypno-Soup!
The Wall Street Journal reveals the lengths to which modern corporations go to make hot soup seem even homier: Campbell began dissecting its condensed-soup marketing […]
Science Art: Gingko bilobe, Dictionnaire encyclopédique Trousset, 1886 – 1891
This is the plant that produces those memory-enhancing extracts you see in the health food aisle of the drug store – the one that long-lived […]
Eldest alphabet.
New Scientist takes a closer look at the squiggly bits around some famous cave paintings – shapes that might just be some of the world’s […]
Mosquito nose transplants.
So Science Daily says – and they don’t seem to be making this up – that scientists are stopping malaria by transplanting mosquitoes’ noses into […]
Hot, Heavy Matter.
Science News reports on the hottest, heaviest science ever to come out of a research lab: Talk about hot and heavy. Scientists have taken the […]
How Deep the Ocean?
Deep.
Science Art: (Loddiges 590) Erigeron alpinum by W. Miller
Another William Miller illustration – this time, a simple flower study in color. Odd how spending a few moments looking at this Erigeron alpinum leaves […]
Auroch returns.
The Telegraph hails the promise of herds of elephant-sized cattle returning to Europe’s plains: Now Italian scientists are hoping to use genetic expertise and selective […]
Farewell, Asperger’s!
Discover tells me the “nerd syndrome” (or whatever we’re calling it in today’s papers) is no longer listed in the DSM, the “Bible of Psychiatry.” […]
Life on Saturn’s moon.
The Telegraph teases me with the promise of life on Enceladus: Nasa’s Cassini spacecraft flew through icy plumes created by ice volcanoes and detected negatively […]
Spiny eyes. With legs and mouths.
LiveScience illuminates a mystery I’m not sure I even knew existed – how is it that sea urchins can see without eyes: Although sea urchins […]
Science Art: Opportunity at Concepcion Crater.
This image was ganked mercilessly from the brilliant Road to Endeavour blog. That celebration of the Mars rovers is put together by the same person […]
Last chance to see.
On 4:39 Sunday morning, go out and turn to face Cape Canaveral. It’s your last chance to ever see a space shuttle launch. Last. Chance. […]