The venerable Lockergnome recently looked at memory technology – specifically, a nasal spray that boosts your ability to learn:
… Read the rest “Squirt memory up your nose.”In a research report featured as the cover story
There’s been a bit of news recently about the discovery of a large number of glowing mushroom species in various corners of the world. This image is not one … Read the rest “Science Art: Phallus drewesii, by Brian Perry.”
NASA has given us a helpful guide for watching the LCROSS probe slam into the surface of the moon tomorrow:
… Read the rest “Tomorrow! Watch the moon EXPLODE!”Put on your hard hat and get ready for action, because on Friday, Oct. 9th, what you
IEEE Spectrum, the journal that sounds like it’s screaming, is taking a long, close look at contact lenses that could give you Terminator eyes:
… Read the rest “Intelligent eyes.”…[I]n fact, my students and
The technical chefs at M.I.T. have come up with a cheap, fun recipe – with simple ingredients like salt and paper, you can start cooking up electricity:
… Read the rest “Salt, paper, battery!”The salt-and-paper battery
Or, really astronaut hero Franklin Chang-Diaz has one. Seed magazine has an interview with Dr. Chang-Diaz in which he describes how he’s using magnets and radiation to get to Mars… Read the rest “Plasma drive. We have one.”
This is what 100,000 stars look like. They’re just a fraction of the 10 million stars in the massive globular cluster Omega Centauri, where the stars are packed so… Read the rest “Science Art: Colorful Stars Galore Inside Globular Star Cluster Omega Centauri”
The BBC depresses me again with a story about a unique Chinese fish that’s probably already extinct:
… Read the rest “Another Yangzi casualty.”A number of fish species vie for the position of the world’s largest freshwater
If you’ve ever wondered what a dead fish is thinking, LiveScience has the data, thanks to a team that gave brain scans to a dead salmon:
… Read the rest “Dead Fish Tell Tales, Alright.”It began in 2005 when Bennett picked up a salmon
Your kids giving you lip?? Watch out, warns PhysOrg. Those are the ones who’re going to be in charge some day:
… Read the rest “Raised to rule.”Good parenting may better prepare children for future leadership roles
Lovely ladies, all of them. Science, the mother of Steam and Electricity, presents her children to their new, lugubriously lolling caretakers. This was, of course, in the years before … Read the rest “Science Art: $2 Silver Certificate, 1896 (Science Presents Steam and Electricity to Commerce and Manufacture.)”
SPACE.com says we’re ready to set up shop on Luna, now that we’ve found reserves of water up there:
… Read the rest “Water on the Moon”While scientists continued to suspect that water ice deposits could be found
ScienceInsider dares to contradict thousands of Alias fans with “facts” and “experimental proof” from a neuroscientist who explains why torture doesn’t… Read the rest “We have ways of making you talk. OK, no, not really.”
PhysOrg reveals why Japan is going to outlast us all – because instead of (or in addition to) prospecting for oil reserves, they’re going to put solar panels in orbit:
… Read the rest “Land of the Rising Solar Panel”The planned
New Scientist‘s microbiological reporting really makes you scared to ever go in the shower again:
… Read the rest “Unclean! UNCLEAN!”“Run your shower for a minute or so before you get in, otherwise you’ll
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