Terror from the farm.
Johns Hopkins University is unleashing a wave of… no, wait. It’s farms. Johns Hopkins is just warning about it. Farms, however, are unleashing a wave […]
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Science Art: Discoaster surculus.
Click to embiggen This is Discoaster surculus. Remember last week, that ocean picture that showed millions of coccolithophores floating in the ocean, sucking up CO2 […]
Welcome back to the territory, TMBG.
The association between songs about science and songs for kids is never entirely broken, I guess, since both endeavors are supposedly educational. So it’s just […]
Prehistoric squid drawn in prehistoric ink.
The Telegraph unveils a beautiful portrait of a fearsome beast – an ancient squid drawn in its own petrified ink: “It is difficult to imagine […]
The physics of finance: Or, the puppetmasters revealed.
Scientists are not just getting into creating music, InsideScience informs me. They’ve also figured out the magic of finance: A pair of physicists at the […]
Scientists make music #2: Live coding.
BBC News reveals the latest tactic in the war to make live electronica performances a little more of the moment: Have the musicians write their […]
Science Art: Barents Sea in Bloom (BarentsSea_TMO_2009231)
This image, a recent Picture of the Day at NASA’s Earth Observatory, takes a big view of something very small – lots and lots and […]
“The Laughing Gnome” isn’t enough, I guess.
Well, this seems a little misguided – or maybe absolutely brilliant – but a psychological researcher (and guitarist) has created the ideal David Bowie song. […]
Electricity in my veins.
Surgeons are readying their Frankenstein-style electrodes, NBC says, in preparation for building new blood vessels with the power (and shape) of lightning: The artificial organs […]
Art for health.
PhysOrg brightens up the future of health care with the healing power of art: Nanda, who has a doctorate in architecture with a specialization in […]
Deadly plastic ocean.
Discovery brings up the grim possibility that we’re all doomed to die in an invisible toxic wave: Patterns in ocean currents create conglomerations of swirling […]
Walk, don’t crawl.
Scientific American resets my priorities (or at least my metaphors) with anthropological research. You think in order to walk, you gotta crawl first? Not really: […]
Science Art: Pioneer F/G Jupiter Missions, 1970.
Click to embiggen. A gorgeous vintage diagram of NASA’s deep space probe’s trajectory. The NASA image archive page says: This image, drawn in 1970, is […]
By definition, a crush must hurt…
The Telegraph provides insight into the genuine pain of a broken heart: Psychologists at the University of California, Los Angeles say the human body has […]
We found the seeds.
Reuters carries the story of the first seed of life to be discovered on a comet: The latest findings add credence to the notion that […]