Columbia Astronaut’s Diary Recovered
AP is carrying a poignant story about Israel’s first astronaut, whose diary survived the Columbia’s explosion over Palestine, Texas: The U.S. space agency returned the […]
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Sounds that should not be.
The aptly-named NoiseAddicts online magazine delves into some unusual research as Norwegian acoustic scientists study violinist Mari Kimura, who’s able to play sounds that she […]
Science Art: Gammarellus angulosus – Near Woods Hole
Click to embiggen. A crustacean with character. From the U.W. Freshwater and Marine Image Bank.
Testosterone fuels financial crisis.
The same hormone that makes men hairy (and both genders feel frisky) is to blame for the current mess on Wall Street, say researchers: Scientific […]
If a potato can power a clock…
…then a tree can power a forest-fire deterrent system. At least, so says Discover magazine and a group of MIT scientists who’ve started a “tree […]
A Committee of Beehive Realtors?
Science Daily was recently buzzing about the decision-making strategies of bees: Scientists had known that honeybee scouts “waggle dance” to report on food. Seeley and […]
It falls everywhere.
Well, as the world markets plunge, something else has started falling. It’s snowing on Mars: iTwire reports: Canada’s York University professor Jim Whiteway, who is […]
Giving the cold shoulder? Just wash your hands of it.
SciAm warms my heart with a great interview about metaphor. Cognitive psychiatrist Chen-Bo Zhong of the University of Toronto is an expert in why certain […]
Science Art: Allosaurus Size Comparison
Click to embiggen T. rex gets all the credit, but Allosaurus – all the various species and sizes – was really the large fierce predator […]
New Dawn Fades. (Science Art: Sunrise above the Martian Arctic.)
Look at this: while listening to this. In the lifeless, frigid Martian arctic, the sun only sets at the end of summer, then rises, weakly, […]
Clever Crows Make Chimps Chumps.
Scientists in New Zealand have distressing news for those of us who enjoy a drumstick now and again. As reported in New Scientist, they’ve found […]
Sorry, Charlie.
I suppose this has been all over the British press by now, but the Church of England recently apologized to Charles Darwin: Scientific American: “The […]
The Mummies of Lima.
This summer, archaeologists discovered three bodies that had been ritually preserved 1,300 years ago in what is now the capital city of Peru. PhysOrg describes […]
Hello, neighbor. (Science Art: First Picture of Likely Planet around Sun-like Star)
For the first time, astronomers have snapped a photo of a planet orbiting a star like our own Sun. That’s it. Not a recreation or […]
You can have any music you like, as long as it’s one of these six forms.
Because, New Scientist tells us, there are only six forms of music to have: In his new book, The World in Six Songs, cognitive psychologist […]