Solar Sea Slug
New Scientist loves nudibranchs… especially when they can generate their own power from sunlight: Elysia chlorotica is a lurid green sea slug, with a gelatinous […]
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Ancient High.
Dude. Cannabis researchers in China have found world’s oldest stash: CBC reports: Researchers say they have located the world’s oldest stash of marijuana, in a […]
Science Art: Gathering the Ripe Pods of the Cacao, or Chocolate, Tree
Click to embiggen Scanned from The Encyclopedia of Food (The stories of foods by which we live, how and where they grow and are marketed, […]
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower….
Technology Review covers the breakthrough of MIT chemist Daniel Nocera, who has figured out how to make like a leaf… and turn sunlight into fuel: […]
Gift Guide: CHEMISTRY!
The glorious MAKE blog has the scientific gift guide of my dreams: chemistry sets and DIY books for garage explosives experts and drug manufacturers. No, […]
Science Art: Argonauta, Webster’s New International
From Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language, 1911, G & C Miriam Co. Springfield, MA, [found here.]
The Grave of the Priestess
LiveScience is calling her a “shaman,” but since the 12,000-year-old grave is in Israel, not Siberia, that’s probably not exactly the right term. But whatever […]
Hollywood, Meet Science.
New Scientist thrills me with a new push to get the entertainment industry to understand science: The new effort, called the Science and Entertainment Exchange, […]
Neither Chinese Chickens Nor Uighur Eggs.
China is a complicated country, and the closer people look, the more complicated it gets. Take, for example, the latest findings on the mummies of […]
The Egg. The Egg Came First.
Canadian paleontologists have answered the old conundrum by closely studying a fossilized dinosaur nest: LiveScience.com, via Yahoo! News: …[I]nterpreted literally, the answer to the riddle […]
Of Wind and Fish.
MSNBC recently reported on an unusual idea – that offshore wind farms would be not only good for creating clean energy, but they’d also boost […]
A Cure for Old Age. (And AIDS.) From Chinese Medicine…
It sure sounds too good to be true, but New Scientist is talking about new UCLA research on astralagus, a plant that’s almost as widely […]
Science Art: Io before Jupiter.
Click to embiggen Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io, as seen from the Galileo space probe. The blue background is a false-color overlay of Jupiter’s swirling clouds. […]
Rock Will Save The Planet
OK, it’s a specific kind of rock: CleanTechnica.com: Scientists at Columbia University have discovered that a rock found in the Middle East can be used […]
Nature Deficit Disorder?
Seed contributor Jonah Lehrer posts to Scienceblogs about the brain-boosting effects of a stroll in the woods: Because you can’t help but stop and notice […]