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 […]
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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 […]
The jitters. The voices. Freshen your cup?
SciAm launches a new volley in the war on drugs – specifically an exotic plant known to some as “Psychotria.” On the street, it’s likely […]
The Rat-Planned City.
Tel Aviv researchers are revolutionizing urban design, PhysOrg.com reports, by designing cities for rats. Normally thought of as vermin, the critters can navigate the street […]
Big Boom. Boom. Boom.
NASA likes listening to space, because it’s kind of noisy up there. Somewhere in the background there are echoes of the Big Bang, and if […]
Science Art: Afrikanska kulturföremål_2, Nordisk familjebok
Click to embiggen. Norwegian encyclopedists behold African artifacts. Found in a very special category on Wikimedia Commons.
Beyond the Twittering Phoenix.
It’s hard to imagine the Mercury Seven swapping SuperPokes, but today’s space agency is a different kind of organization. Maybe. You can find out yourself […]
The World’s First Scientist.
The BBC has a fun piece on the fellow most English speakers might not recognize, even though he’s the guy who invented the scientific method: […]
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 […]
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 – […]