As if we didn’t have enough to worry about, the Telegraph reports that an asteroid just blew up over Indonesia with the force of three atomic bombs:
… Read the rest “SURPRISE! Asteroid nearly blows up Indonesia.”Scientists are concerned that it
Discover has an interesting bit of unexpected biomimicry. The mantis shrimp (probably the scariest marine predator less than 3 feet long) has an unusual way of looking at the world…… Read the rest “DMSD stands for “Digital Mantis Shrimp Discs””
We all want a primitive man, says the Telegraph, reporting on new evidence that modern humans got it on with Neanderthals:
… Read the rest “Not the kind that belongs to a club, but the kind with a club that belongs to him…”[Said Professor Paabo, who is director of genetics at the renowned
Forget asteroids or nuclear war. Science Daily now has me worried that we’re all going to die from toxic pond scum:
… Read the rest “The green planet-killer.”The microscopic plants usually exist in small concentrations,
Landsat 7 gave us this memorable look at clouds moving rapidly over the Aleutian Islands. These whorls happen, as any canoeist knows, when a fluid moves around an… Read the rest “Science Art: Von Karman Vortices”
Designboom recently gave a green design award to the Murakami rocking chair.
Great invention – it’s a rocking chair with a dynamo and a built-in reading lamp. Your rocking … Read the rest “Rock the Power, Gramps.”
So first there was that little problem with Al Qaeda and the Large Hadron Collider. Now, the Belfast Telegraph reveals a similar link between Mossad and NASA:
… Read the rest “Spies in the house of science.”In an affidavit supporting
…and not only that, but painkilling medicine, too. Newsweek reveals that the psychedelic rocket fuels of 1960s culture are proving to be unique weapons against the otherwise untreatable… Read the rest “LSD is medicine – and so are magic mushrooms.”
The circle of life, seen as a straight line. With a bird of prey at the top.
There’s something totemic about it, I think… King Bird looking over his food subjects.… Read the rest “Science Art: Food chain-2, Nordisk familjebok”
New Scientist challenges a team of professional electronic snoops, who prove that strangers can learn more than you think from your phone:
… Read the rest “The spy in your pocket.”I’ve just walked into a windowless room
A professor at Australia’s Curtin Institute of Technology, Dr Morry Silberstein, may have figured out what makes acupuncture work:
… Read the rest “Is this how acupuncture works?”His research, to be published in the Journal
New Scientist goes tropical, revealing what a fusion reactor has in common with a pina colada:
… Read the rest “Coconut fusion reactor.”The coconuts will be used to generate 10,000 cubic metres of nothing – the vacuum essential
This is why we do what we do: Letter to a ^top scientist at Woomera.
This is how the space race was won, you know. Millions of children who had the rocket researchers’ addresses.
This sounds awfully New Agey for Yale, but apparently, physicists there have discovered that metal circles have a tiny amount of persistent energy flowing through them eternally:
… Read the rest “Every circle is alive.”The
EurekAlert tells me these dudes in Australia are breeding their fortunes after finding a germ that, in effect, lays golden eggs:
… Read the rest “The Gold Bug”“A number of years ago we discovered that the metal-resistant
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