The cool bedroom weight-loss plan.
VCU researchers have found a cool way to boost your body’s supply of (metabolism-raising) brown fat cells – by turning down your air conditioning: Researchers […]
Science Art: Jupiter's Family of Comets, 1898
This is a diagram from A New Astronomy For Beginners, a textbook that’s about a century and a quarter old, or a…
Read moreSONG: Your Catalogue
SONG: “Your Catalogue”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: NBC News, “New wild cat species is ide…
Read moreScience Art: Beebe's Bathysphäre, 1934
This is an image of William Beebe’s bathysphere, as placed on Wikimedia Commons by ETH Bibliothek. It was creat…
Read moreScience Art: Power of RCA Electron Microscope, May 1955
These are diatoms, I think, seen by two different microscopes.
As the caption from Popular Electronics says…
Read moreScience Art: Red Pepper, 1910.
Red pepper (Cayenne pepper) will cure almost any case of la grippe within 24 hours, or so they say. At least no…
Read moreScience Art: Figs. 1315-1333 (Various rotary piston engines), 1890.
This is a page of figures from (deep breath) The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appli…
Read moreFour years an expectant mother. Eight arms to hug them.
Science Daily reveals the record-breaking brooding period of the deep-sea octopus: In May 2007, during one of these surveys, the researchers discovered a female octopus […]
The West is drying up.
Nature shares satellite data that shows not only lakes, rivers and reservoirs shrinking across the whole U.S. Southwest, but even water underground is going away: […]
1,000,000-year-old tools.
That’s what Sci-News.com and Science Daily are reporting that University of Toronto researchers have found. A trove of thousands of really really old tools: Science […]
Science Art: The Englishman Watt wanted to make a steam engine…, 1873.
Click to embiggen Translation: The Englishman Watt wanted to make a steam engine. He spent so much time on it that he upset his aunt. […]
Fusion attracts cash.
Investors are (quietly, says Scientific American) lining up support for companies figuring out the ins and outs of nuclear fusion: …[T]he fragments of information that […]
SONG: “Step Into The Sky”
SONG: “Step Into The Sky.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “A new raptorial dinosaur with exceptionally long feathering […]
Climate change means… more kidney stones?
Yep. Scientific American has more on a painful consequence of temperatures swinging upward unexpectedly: In a study published earlier this month in the journal Environmental […]
Science Art: Figure Showing Anterior Ethmoidal Artery, 2013.
Ever feel congested? Here’s where it happens – the paranasal sinuses. These ones are under your eyes. And the artery we’re specifically looking at here […]
An injection reverses type-2 diabetes (temporarily). No insulin required.
Salk Institute scientists have discovered an injectable protein that reverses diabetes for two days: In mice with diet-induced diabetes — the equivalent of type 2 […]
Unbrushed teeth left a message for the future
Science Daily has more on the prehistoric plaque that’s teaching us about our ancestors’ diets: The research was carried out at Al Khiday, a pre-historic […]
A: Prehistory’s largest micro-raptor. (Four wings!)
Q (from Nature): What’s 100 cm long, has long feathers and flew with four wings? Here we describe a new ‘four-winged’ microraptorine, Changyuraptor yangi, from […]
CDC: Stop shipping that flu around!
Nature reports that the Centers for Disease Control have ceased all shipments of infectious disease pathogens until they can get them shipped right: Workers at […]
Scientists find where consciousness happens.
New Scientist locates the specific place where knowledge and self-awareness sits – in a brain region called the claustrum: In a study published last week, […]
Science Art: Two hundred bones form the framework of your body, 1958.
Click to embiggen Tennis, a different perspective. From All About the Human Body, 1958, found in the reference library of Newhouse Design. [via]