Love is… a natural deodorant?
New Scientist uncorks the peculiar way passion affects our scents, by blanketing would-be competitors with the smell of love: In a series of trials, each […]
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Love is… mosquitoes buzzing in harmony.
The BBC has video up of romancing mosquitoes creating their high, keening love songs: Males and females each have their own characteristic flight tone – […]
Hard Decision? Don’t think about it.
This seems natural to me, but also seems like the kind of thing that drives more literally minded thinkers out of their heads. A University […]
Science Art: Early Stages of Hubble Construction, 1980.
Click to embiggen Taken at the Lockheed facility, the image shows “the optical metering truss and secondary baffle.” And important-looking people in orange jumpsuits, evidently […]
The Mirror-eyes of the Spookfish.
New Scientist sheds light on a deep-sea mystery – a bizarre fish eye that mirrors rather than lenses: The most important source of light at […]
Pink Iguana!
PopSci believes that pink iguanas are real. Because, as it turns out, pink iguanas are real! Even after the first pink iguana sighting came in […]
Trophy Heads of Nazca.
The same mysterious civilization that left us the lines and inspirational giant pyramids also left puzzling piles of human heads… and PhysOrg.com reports that the […]
Be Boring.
No! Say it ain’t so! The Overcoming Bias blog has this study from the Journal of Experimental Psychology that shows that interesting details interfere with […]
Science Art: Allosaurus, by Charles R. Knight
Click to embiggen Charles R. Knight is a scientific illustrator more people need to know about. A paleoartist, even. He brought dinosaurs (and other things) […]
Future: 2008 Energy Breakthroughs
The Memebox FutureBlogger rings in the New Year with the top 10 energy breakthroughs from 2008: There is still a lot we do not know […]
Science Art: Fennec, Webster’s New International
A desert-dwelling fox of North Africa. For Foxing Day. From Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language, 1911, G & C Miriam Co. Springfield, […]
Cell Phone Blood Scanner
Bet your iPhone can’t do this…. UCLA scientists have found a way to rig an ordinary cell phone, an LED, a light filter and some […]
Future By Colani.
Here, something pretty for your Yule: How Luigi Colani designed the future. A Colani-designed semi-trailer. From steam trains to flying boats. Spacecraft like ginger flowers […]
Smart Soldiers Die First.
Sounds grim, but New Scientist says it’s true. The more intelligent soldiers were the most likely to die in combat: The unprecedented demands of the […]
Science Art: Nicotiana alata upper leaf surface, showing tricomes and stomates.
Click to embiggen vastly This Lovecraftian landscape is jasmine tobacco. Not waving, photosynthesizing. From Louisa Howard at the Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility.