AI baby step: Robot masters scientific method.
The sober, respectable Financial Times isn’t really the publication one would expect to be covering OH EM GEE THE ROBOT THINKS IT THINKS! kind of […]
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Science Art: Bipolar direct-current generator, Webster’s New International
Where Edison’s power came from. It’s a step up from what was called, no lie, an iron-clad machine. Today, we use alternating current. (Go ahead, […]
Vampire batteries for implants eternal!
New Scientist pulls back the veil from a team of Canadian biotech researchers who have built a yeast-based fuel cell that can run on blood: […]
First-person shooters in shades of gray.
From Chris Pirillo’s Lockergnome comes news of good cheer to those who can’t tear their gaze away from Left4Dead for more than a few seconds […]
Spank for a happy relationship!
New Scientist, always on the raw, throbbing edge of behavioral science, reveals the heartwarming findings about the couple that spanks together: SPANKING is stressful at […]
Jacket makes movies feelies.
The IEEE (what used to be the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) reports in Spectrum about a strange new entertainment breakthrough that combines neurology, […]
Moon Flowers.
Peggy Lee, Santana and Hugh Lofting all predicted, in their own ways, what MSNBC’s Cosmic Log is reporting as news… about Paragon Space Development Corp’s […]
Science Art: Ambystoma maculatum by John D. Willson
A spotted salamander, spotted in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Photo from the USGS Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative.
We’re not doing science right.
As if we needed someone to tell us about it, Science Daily informs us Americans that we’re failing at basic scientific literacy: Despite its importance […]
Hurdia victoria: SHRIMPZILLA!
PhysOrg once again brings prehistoric monsters to life: Although the first fragments were described nearly one hundred years ago, they were assumed to be part […]
Science Art: Euproctis chrysorrhoea ugglan, Nordisk familjebok
Euproctis chrysorrhoea, better known as the Browntail moth. It stings our skin and devastates our farmland, and is the subject of experiments using pheromones as […]
Electric cars still driving!
The New York Times gives hope for a better drive home with a report on a new approach to electric cars… from the filling station […]
Roboctopus!
New Scientist introduces our latest underwater overlords – or at least the blueprints for one – in a story about Italian researchers who’re designing the […]
The view from there.
Item 1: The Telegraph reports on a group of teenagers who used a <$100 camera and a balloon to take some great pictures of space: […]
Guitarists’ brains click together.
ScientificBlogging covers some fun experiments that involve hooking musicians up to EEG machines, letting them rock out together and watching their brainwaves fall into the […]