What might life on Mars be like? That’s the question Disney was asking TV viewers in 1957.
This has to be seen to be believed….
FANTASTIC HUNTERS WHO KILL BY CONCENTRATING THE… Read the rest “Science Art: Mars & Beyond, directed by Ward Kimball, 1957”
CNN recently covered some fun physiological research from the University of Maryland that showed that music – music you like – really is good for your heart:
… Read the rest “Music opens your heart. No, really.”Miller thought,
New Scientist examines the harmful health effects of the power of negative thinking:
… Read the rest “Imaginary poisons.”The placebo effect has an evil twin: the nocebo effect, in which dummy pills and negative expectations
Something’s gotten in The Charleston Gazette’s blood – and ours, too. You want to know the future? One word. Plastics:
… Read the rest “Food wrapper plastics are in our blood.”Around the world, scientists are closely examining
Just because we’ve swapped climate change for nuclear apocalypse in our end-of-the-world imaginings, that doesn’t mean we have to give up our terror of giant spiders. At … Read the rest “THEM! (Global Warming Edition)”
You can read the full story on Hubblesite.org; the short version – Hubble found this planet in 1998, but nobody realized it until a Canadian scientist –… Read the rest “Science Art: Artist’s View of Extrasolar Planet HR 8799b by NASA, ESA and G. Bacon (STScl)”
The New York Times has nothing better to do than look at hobbit feet:
… Read the rest “Hobbit feet.”The new anatomical evidence, being reported Thursday in the journal Nature, is unlikely to solve the mystery of just where
The MIT Technology Review (and other sources) have reported on a new technique that Canadian doctors devised for preparing lungs for transplants – or repairing damaged lungs –… Read the rest “Breathe out.”
Nature Neuroscience (via the BBC) lets researchers push all the right buttons after they’ve discovered brave new ways to make us feel good:
… Read the rest “Mmmm. Neurology. Oh, yeah.”A team, including scientists from the
The Guardian explains an awful lot about how things have gotten so out of hand for so very, very long by revealing proof that we’re all swimming in a cosmic dacquiri:
… Read the rest “Cosmic dacquiri.”In the latest survey,
It’s soooo cute! Look at the widdle wight buwb! Aw, New Scientist, if that tiny lamp isn’t the cutest thing ever!:
… Read the rest “Nanolamp!”Chris Regan’s team at the University of California,
This is what a sonic boom looks like, through a Schlieren camera – one outfitted to see differences in air pressure. The T-38 pilot could probably feel these bands… Read the rest “Science Art: Schlieren photograph of a T-38 at Mach 1.1, altitude 13,700 feet, by Leonard Weinstein.”
Science Daily blows a hole in what had been history’s biggest explosion with news that that colossal asteroid that made the Yucatan might not have killed off the dinosaurs after all… Read the rest “Scratch that asteroid.”
New Scientist is being reassuring – sort of – when it declares that this swine flu pandemic business isn’t any kind of surprise:
… Read the rest “The sound of a hundred shrugging epidemiologists.”But in 1998, says Richard Webby of St Jude’s
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