A $50 home-printed hand beats a $42,000 prosthetic.
Washington Post explores the friendship between Jeremy Simon, a 3D-printer “tinkerer” and Jose Delgado, a 53-year-old man who was born without a hand… and who […]
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 moreI really don’t know what I’m saying.
Nature reveals that sometimes our mouths really do move faster than our brains: But some researchers think that speech is not entirely planned, and that […]
The walled city of New York… after the oceans rise.
Scientific American paints a peculiar picture of the Big Apple’s future, with the hustle and bustle taking place behind a series of levees, walls and […]
A viral aphrodisiac. Like, literally – a virus that makes sexytime happen. Then it kills you….
Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), as NPR reports, it only affects crickets. They get infected, then want to have more sex, spreading the virus to more […]
Young blood renews old brains.
PhysOrg reveals a new discovery in vampire science – that infusion of blood from young mice makes old mice brains youthful again: …[T]hey also conducted […]
Types of Trusses, from FM 5-10 Engineer Field Manual, 1940.
Ways to get that bridge finished, as described in FM 5-10 Engineer Field Manual, Communications, Construction, and Utilities (September 9, 1940) Fancy car for the […]
Sex with death (is how bacteria do it).
Birds do it and bees do it as celebration of life. Science Daily explains how bacteria can do it – and make themselves antibiotic-resistant – […]
1 in 25 Death Row inmates don’t belong there.
Or so says a new analysis published in Nature. That’s 4% of condemned people who would be exonerated given enough time: Few convictions result in […]
We can get embryonic stem cells… by cloning adults.
Nature introduces yet another ethical wrinkle into the production of stem cells, with new techniques to create cell-generating embryos from adult cells: On 17 April, […]
This vine changes shape to fit in with whatever’s nearby.
How can this vine *know* what to look like? Science looks at the first known case of shape-shifting mimicry in the vegetable kingdom: Fewer examples […]
Science Art: Man-Made Producers of Noise, by Van Valkenburgh, Nooger & Neville, 1959.
From Basic Electronics, Part 5, a manual used by the U.S. Navy to train people in the basics of aerials, transmitters, frequency modulation and all […]
Feeling the meaningless of it all? Do something selfless.
Not sure if this article from The Atlantic should go in the “no duh” file or if it’s really profound, but they’re certainly interested in […]
Did unleaded gasoline lower our crime rate?
BBC News asks a rather interesting question based on a curious correlation. Worldwide crime rates dropped, on average, at about the same time we stopped […]
SONG: “Growing Batteries”
SONG: “Growing Batteries.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Process Turns Cellulose into Energy Storage Devices”, Laboratory Equipment, 8 […]
Home-baked carbon crystals – graphene made to order.
Nature is sharing a fun little recipe for whipping up the super-material graphene in a kitchen blender: In Nature Materials, a team led by [Jonathan] […]