Clear typefaces make life easier.
SciAm clears up a secret of success that font-freaks already know instinctively. If we’re really going to get things done, you’ve got to tell it […]
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The Vertical Farm
I was reading about urban farming lately – growing food in places where normally you’d see multilevel parking garages take root – when a page […]
Snowballs and Killer Whales
Researchers studying the McMurdo Sound killer whales may have started something among the orcas: LiveScience, via Yahoo:One of the whales, probably an adult female, was […]
The Power of a Butterfly’s Wing
Scientists in China and Japan have come up with a new system for getting power from the sun… by building solar panels like butterfly wings: […]
Science Art: Lanai & Western Maui, from STS-99 Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Imagery
Click to embiggen vastly Topographic radar images of two Hawaiian islands. Rainbows in a void. You can read more about the image at NASA’s gallery.
Science Art: Crawling Neutrophil Chasing a Bacterium.
Crawling Neutrophil Chasing a Bacterium: From the video library at Science Hack, where this hypnotic sequence is described as: “A 16-mm movie made in the […]
Help us speak science.
Nature’s Nascent blog has a call for volunteers to help evaluate abstracts and comments on PLoS ONE, the Public Library of Science: I agree with […]
Outchimped… with affection.
The Monkey Wire (no, really) is jumping with news of a study that shows chimpanzee babies are smarter than humans: Daily Express Professor Kim Bard, […]
National Science Foundation: Smut haven.
SciAm blows the lid off some questionable activity in America’s science administration that wasn’t really related to research: Among the IG’s findings: “Six cases of […]
Science Art: Jorge de Aguiar’s Compass Rose, 1492
Click to embiggen. From Wikimedia Commons, original in Beinecke Library, Yale University. Jorge de Aguiar was a Portuguese cartographer who explored Ethiopia and Arabia in […]
Dreams of sex and horror.
LiveScience pulls the cover back on another battle of the sexes with a study that shows men and women dream differently: Parker corroborated participants’ dreams […]
Cyber-insects taking off.
Wired’s Danger Room blog now has me imagining what it would be like to come under attack from a buzzing swarm of remote-controlled rhinoceros beetles: […]
Pleistocence Park?
Not dinosaurs, but mammoths. I’d like to ride a mammoth. Wouldn’t you? New Scientist teases us with the possibility we can soon ride mammoths… or […]
Science Art: The Dry Frost of Mars.
Click to embiggen. On Mars, the polar ice caps grow and shrink with the seasons, just like on Earth. But unlike Earth, the Martian ice […]