Glassteel. Or something like it.
I remember “glassteel” being one of those fabulous, fictional substances that showed up a lot in sci-fi novels when I was growing up – the […]
Science
Science Art: STEREO’s SECCHI-Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope, 5 March 2007
This image from NASA’s Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory shows our sun’s atmosphere in the temperature range of 1.5 million degrees Celsius. It’s part of a […]
Your printer is bad for you.
That’s what Science Daily says. They’re reporting on the discovery by Lidia Morawska of the University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, that particles given off […]
It’s a costeroid!
New Scientist talks about a… thing in space. It’s not an asteroid. It’s not a comet. It’s somehow both: It has been officially designated as […]
Vatican Astronomy
Pope Benedict XVI is hosting the Vatican’s second astronomical conference in seven years, reports the BBC: Father Jose Funes, the head of the Vatican Observatory, […]
Songbirds see the way
Nature unveils the unseen world of songbirds: They injected one tracer into the part of the forebrain known to be the only active area when […]
Science Art: Sputnik, 1957
A technician looks over history’s first satellite prior to its October 5, 1957 launch. Happy anniversary, outer space.
Is Alzheimer’s really type-3 diabetes?
PhysOrg reports on a Northwestern University research team that’s found evidence linking Alzheimer’s disease to brain insulin: They have shown that a toxic protein found […]
Common flame redardant could be killing cats.
Science Daily reports on a veterinarian, Janice A. Dye, who might have found the cause of feline hyperthyroidism, an epidemic that’s been afflicting cats for […]
I don’t *feel* sexy….
A study from the University of Guelph finds that men often feel “coerced” into sex because we’re subject to the myth of the massive libido. […]
The Cradle of Man… in the Republic of Georgia?
Physical anthropologists with Washington University of St. Louis have looked over some pretty old bones from a site near Tblisis and found humans were in […]
Antioxidants: And now the bad news.
Antioxidants are good for you! They help prevent cell damage and heart disease! Except when they don’t, as researchers at the University of Utah discovered. […]
Science Art: Temporary Chimneys and Fire Fountains, Constance Gordon-Cumming, c.1880
Click for larger version Read more on Scottish traveler Constance Gordon-Cumming and her experiences with the unique geothermal phenomena of Yellowstone (pdf file) – as […]
The Bacterial Kinkmobile.
New Scientist reports on a new way to propel nanomachines – using wiggly little germs as propulsion (or models for propulsion) because they’re kinky: The […]