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 […]
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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 […]
The knee bone’s connected to the… pancreas bone?
PhysOrg blows our minds with the discovery that our skeletons are actually endocrine glands: Karsenty and his colleagues had previously shown that leptin, a hormone […]
Science Art: Romanae archetypae tabulae anatomicae novis…
Romanae archetypae tabulae anatomicae novis… is a 1783 edition of a book of anatomical poses written by Bartolomeo Eustachi and illustrated by Giulio de’Musi in […]
Perseids + New Moon =
Go outside tomorrow night and look up. Look up! Keep looking up! Trust us on this one.
Ancient germs reborn
From New Scientist comes a fun story about prehistoric bacteria being brought back to life by meddling scientists: Kay Bidle of Rutgers University in New […]
I Want My UFO
Moller International, a company that’s been trying to market flying cars for a long while now, has finally made its breakthrough, reports LiveScience: [I]t looks […]
Science Tattoos
Some researchers wear their subjects of study underneath their sleeves. I quite like the octopus….
Sleep Eaters
Discover lifts the veil on unusual nocturnal behavior – the phenomenon of sleep eating: Except for the trail of crumbs and gooey messes that confront […]