Cute: Apple ][ and the first computer viruses.
PhysOrg has a sweet little story about the jokey birth of what could be the earliest computer virus: He developed what is now known as […]
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Science Art: Exterior View of a Double Cylinder Colony
From NASA’s collection of 1970s space colony art. There are much larger versions available in their archive. —- Bonus link: the Living Room of the […]
Stowaway Genes
Science Daily reports on some very strange behavior found in bacterial DNA – one parasite’s entire genome is replicated by the host’s body. And, the […]
Star Trek medical scanner is GO!
Experts at Harborview Medical Center and the University of Washington are refining an ultrasound device that seals punctured lungs without invasive surgery, reports Science Daily. […]
When ORCHIDS ruled the Earth!
New Scientist confirms the fever-dreams of many a fanatic gardener with the discovery that mammals didn’t take over right after the death of the dinosaurs […]
Psychedelic Paintball
Wired‘s “Danger Room” reports on like, wow, man, that’s one *TRIPPY* gun: Paintballs laced with mind-altering drugs and drug-spraying robots sound like something for The […]
T. rex could have caught us.
New Scientist strikes fear into the hearts of time travelers everywhere with a report that T. rex could have caught humans. Easily. Which is kind […]
Science Art: Compact Muon Solenoid of the Large Hadron Collider
This is how CERN is hoping to find the Higgs Boson. At 40 feet long, it is the biggest superconducting solenoid ever made, costing $65 […]
You’ll put an eye out.
Behold the science of engineering. LEGO engineering.
Giant “living fossil” fish on the brink
National Geographic reports on another Chinese river-dweller struggling to survive – the giant sturgeon, also known as the “underwater panda”: Adult sturgeons, which can measure […]
Mira, The Tail Star
We’ve been watching this thing for four centuries, and we only now noticed it had a tail, as Nature reports. A really long tail: Astronomers […]
Baby powder soothes earthquakes
Nature eases chafing on a tectonic level: Researchers drilling deep into the San Andreas fault in California report in today’s Nature the presence of talc […]
Science Art: William Herschel Telescope
from Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, La Palma, Picture Archives, (via Barbelith).
Speed of Light: BROKEN (in a teeny-tiny way)
Researchers Gunter Nimtz and Alfons Stahlhofen of the University of Koblenz have told New Scientist (and other sources) that they’ve broken the light barrier, sending […]
Smoke ’em while the voices tell you it’s OK.
There’s been some press lately about studies that show a correlation between marijuana smoking and psychosis – as in, smoke dope, increase your risk of […]