Science Art: Honey Ant, Webster’s New International
Does anyone else remember these from Insects Do The Strangest Things? Oh, what a fine children’s book that is. From Webster’s New International Dictionary of […]
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The iPhone girl.
This isn’t research as much as social observation, but have you heard about the iPhone girl? I noticed her story on reddit but she’s popping […]
The keen migratory instincts of cows.
It seems like this story hit everywhere at once, but it’s still marvelous. Here’s the BBC version of how cows always face north: Images from […]
Unplugged.
So, the BBC is talking about one of Nikola Tesla’s dreams (he of the AC current and the plasma ball) coming true in an Intel […]
Science Art: Red Dwarf Flare
Click to embiggen vastly From the NASA Image Galleries: On April 25, 2008, NASA’s Swift satellite picked up a record-setting flare from a star known […]
Bad choices and birth control.
LiveScience makes clear that sometimes, contraception isn’t the best decision. Or, well, doesn’t help you make the best decisions… because birth control pills befuddle women’s […]
The plausibly deniable death ray.
The great thing about laser weapons, New Scientist says, isn’t just that you can fry your enemy from miles away. You can also shrug your […]
*More* spouses?
New Scientist has just given me stress-induced palpitations with their finding that the more wives, the longer-lived the man: After accounting for socioeconomic differences, men […]
Vegetarian spiders. Like panthers.
Bug-watchers at the 12th International Behavioral Ecology Congress have brought the world’s attention (and the attention of the fine bloggers at Greenupgrader.com) to a previously […]
Better than Shinola.
Dailytech.com is smiling (or is it just gas?) over the latest trick we’ve gotten E. coli to perform. Geneticists have altered the food-poisoning germ so […]
Science Art: Spitzer Infrared Launch
The Spitzer Space Telescope being sent on its way aboard a huge, hot Delta rocket, as a honeybee might have seen it. When Spitzer launched […]
Spicy bugs.
If you like your food a little spicy, EurekAlert.org might whet your appetite in a crawly kind of way… because hot peppers owe everything to […]
I no caveman? Unk!
Wired burst bubble! Science-head say me no Neanderthal no how: Scientists who sequenced the mitochondrial DNA of a 38,000-year-old Neanderthal returned no evidence of ancestral […]
The Lost World.
National Geographic takes us to a lost world, hidden under Antarctic ice for 14 million years: Researchers found the freeze-dried remains of mosses, algae, small […]
Windless City Power
So much for rooftop turbines – unless you’re on a farm. A new study from the UK Carbon Trust, which appeared on the CleanTechnica.com blog, […]