Autotune explained.
Normally I wouldn’t encourage this sort of thing, but NOVA has an interesting feature explaining how Autotune works. On July 6, they’ll be posting answers […]
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I see sounds.
ScientificBlogging.com has a story that I’d suspect was an April Fools if this wasn’t the middle of summer. Supposedly, like our intelligent cousins to the […]
Feather in your tank.
The Daily Green recently revealed an alternative fuel scheme that may be much better than bird-brained: Finding novel uses for chicken feathers is a pet […]
Science Art: 3D movie taken by the Terrain Camera (TC) of KAGUYA (SELENE) during its maneuvered falling to the Moon.), Japanese Space Agency JAXA.
(Larger version here.) This is the Japanese lunar probe Kayuga (Selene) crashing into the Moon. More specifically, this is a 3D rendering of data sent […]
Global Warming Trivia – from the SEA!
The Scientists and Engineers for America have a fun trivia question today: Which gas of the following is the most important greenhouse gas but will […]
Deadly Roundup
Scientific American confirms my suspicions about my neighbors and their well-manicured, weedless yards. All that stuff they’re spraying? Yeah, it’ll kill you: One label requirement […]
Pay attention to your daydreaming.
There’s been a lot of attention paid to paying attention lately – and how we really need to not do that all the time. Wall […]
Crunchasaurus?
PhysOrg ventures into the vast Gobi Desert to reveal a historical find – the fossilized remains of the first confirmed nut-eating dinosaur: Larger, more numerous […]
Science Art: Sunrise Over Saturn and its Rings, W00018160.jpg, 2006
Click to embiggen slightly On September 15, 2006, the Cassini Space Probe had its historic rendezvous with Saturn, giving us – five days later – […]
Music boosts brains.
Scientific American casts a cold eye on music makers, and clinically reveals that yes, music really matters: To record brain stem responses, the researchers placed […]
Love from the inside out.
Esquire sings with neurological romance, using brain scans to tell a husband’s stirring story of the brain in love: Against all odds, I’m still hot […]
Alive in the ice.
LiveScience has interviewed some microbiologists who have woken up an alien(-ish) organism from the Greenland ice cap after a 120,000-year nap: “Microbes have found ways […]
That healing fizz.
So you get a cut – ouch! – and you put a band-aid on it, but first, you make sure you disinfect it with hydrogen […]
What’s squeezing Betelgeuse?
National Geographic breaks the worrying news that Betelgeuse is shrinking: Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, first measured the star in 1993 with an […]
Science Art: Gustave Whitehead on the #21, by Dick Howell
Gustave Whitehead was a Bavarian immigrant to Connecticut who in all likelihood made a steam-powered machine fly for more than half a mile in 1899 […]