PopSci says the Russians are floating the idea of sending a monkey and robot to Mars. For real:
… Read the rest “Monkey and Robot go to Mars.”Russia’s Cosmonautics Academy is in preliminary talks with the [Institute of Experimental
LabSpaces measures out the mathematics of beautiful girls:
… Read the rest “Why She’s Beautiful”Pamela Pallett and Stephen Link of UC San Diego and Kang Lee of the University of Toronto tested the existence of an ideal facial
MIT economists are weighing in on the science of creativity in a search for the source of big ideas:
… Read the rest “Better science = less limits + longer time.”“If you want people to branch out in new directions, then it’s important to provide for their
The American Museum of Natural History revisits “Cosmic Zoom”, starting at the Himalayas and moving outward (and, as far as we can see, backwards in time – through older… Read the rest “Science Art: The Known Universe by AMNH”
Yeah, so did you know your skin can hear? And that, LiveScience says, isn’t all. There’s also some kind of subtle sense that operates through our sweat glands:
… Read the rest “Skin sense”“Curiously,
Discovery gets deep in its musing about a cetacean mystery. The songs of the blue whale have been getting progressively lower in pitch:
… Read the rest “Blue whale basso is really profundo.”In some cases, the pitch of their songs has dropped
Wired featured a wonderful piece of homemade cybernetics (and one that could subtly changing the world) – the homemade book scanner:
… Read the rest “DIY book scanner”For nearly two years, Daniel Reetz dreamed of
Chasing the links for that Levitin interview yesterday, I found this call for volunteers in a musical experiment:
… Read the rest “Music Evolution: Science wants YOUR ears!”MacCullum’s computer program creates a randomly generated pair
Unlike all of the other selections cut-n-pasted here, this one I typed in by hand; that’s how much I wanted to share it. It’s from Tape Op, the free audio recordists’ magazine… Read the rest “The Brain in the Studio”
Behold a crepuscular rodent. In this case, I suppose, a fractional crepuscular rodent. (That means they like going out at dusk and dawn… creatures of what photographers call “the… Read the rest “Science Art: Chinchilla, Webster’s New International Dictionary, 1911”
Science Daily reveals research that proves reading lessons really do create new brain cells in children:
… Read the rest “Reading is fundamental… for kids’ brains.”Carnegie Mellon University scientists Timothy Keller and Marcel Just have uncovered
That’s what DARPA launched to test new ways to use the internet – and social media specifically, the Guardian says – to solve problems rapidly (and to locate targets,… Read the rest “10 red balloons.”
And, Wired says, we’re just about able to understand their vocabulary… and their grammar:
… Read the rest “Monkey talk.”Lemasson’s team previously described the monkeys’ use of calls with specific meanings
PhysOrg looks at the sunny side of the Mars Rover Spirit getting stuck – in exactly the right place to make some major discoveries:
… Read the rest “Getting stuck a stroke of luck”“Spirit had to get stuck to make its next discovery,”
Wired reveals one strange way humans are changing the natural world – by accidentally creating new species:
… Read the rest “Birdfeeder evolution.”“This is reproductive isolation, the first step of speciation,” said
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