Old phones are listening.
Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece on how old smart phones are being used to listen for disrupted sleep patterns, illegal loggers, gunshots, breeding […]
Science Art: Astrapia Splendidissima, 1895
This is the first illustration in the article “A New Bird of Paradise” by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, published…
Read moreScience Art: Ever See This Before?, 1966.
This is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used …
Read moreScience Art: Sunrise - Philippine Sea, 2017
This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science …
Read moreScience Art: Égouts de Paris, by Jules Ferat.
There’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. B…
Read moreScience Art: Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, by David K. Stone.
I found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is a…
Read moreSONG: Alone
SONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack …
Read moreScience Art: Tadarida teniotis Rafinesque.
This is a bat from Tajikstan. According to the 2002 State of the Environment Report, it’s a rare bat. The European free-tailed bat. No, he […]
“Mind-blowing” Viking discovery made in Ireland.
Irish Central has more on the pristine site in a little village in County Louth that used to be a Viking winter base: Geophysical tests […]
“Sorry, but your new home is a cosmic burp.”
Science Daily has us imagining that message being broadcast to an an interstellar ship full of would-be colonists, thanks to new research that’s found some […]
Supercooled livers stay alive longer
Not just fresher, says PopSci, but better for transplants: The procedure was part of an experimental new method for treating donated organs. The method is […]
Clean up E. coli by spilling some human proteins on it.
OK, maybe “spilling” is a little imprecise, but Scientific American has the details on how to use a blood plasma extract to clean E. coli […]
Science Art: Polar Bear – POV Cams (Spring 2014), by the USGS
As the U.S. Geological Survey puts it: This video was edited and compiled from raw footage recorded by a camera equipped radio collar that was […]
Lone Star? Windmill! Green energy booms in Texas.
Scientific American lauds the state long linked with oil money for breaking wind power production records: The Lone Star State hit “peak wind” at 8:48 […]
One hour more of sleep makes a measurable difference
Stop studying. Take a nap. That’s the message from Catholic University of Leuven researchers who found that one more hour of sleep makes a big […]
SONG: “Colonies”
SONG: “Colonies.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Bees build mental maps to get home”, Nature, 2 Jun 2014, […]
Science Art: Peppergrass, by Zoe Keller
Click to embiggen I love peppergrass. This is a great illustration of the middle part of the plant – there are actually some narrow, spiky-looking […]
Animals are people too.
Or so says National Geographic-profiled biopsychologist Lori Marino, an expert in the brains of “lesser” animals: Formerly a full-fledged research scientist who found measuring the […]
E-smell delivered across the Atlantic
Live Science hails a bold new step in connectivity as researchers in New York City successfully transmitted a smell to Paris… via the internet: NEW […]
Music lessons build better brains
Science Daily has MRI proof that all those *boring* scales help switch on problem-solving, better-judgement brain areas: Executive functions are the high-level cognitive processes that […]
No more dentist drills.
The Independent opens wide with a new treatment that promises to help teeth repair themselves: The technique, developed at King’s College London, effectively reverses decay […]