New class of antibiotics may kill MRSA.
Science Daily has promising research from Notre Dame in the fight against antibiotic-resistant germs – a new class of chemicals that should kill bacteria like […]
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 moreAre antibiotics making us obese?
The New York Times investigates the strange history of American antibiotics – and how the medicine hailed as a “superdrug” in the 1940s might have […]
Our air pollution *weakens* hurricanes (but makes them wetter).
Science Daily says “aerosols produced by human activities” – that is, soot and exhaust fumes and all that great air pollution – definitely has an […]
This home really speaks to me. Over the internet…
The New York Times looks inside the house of tomorrow, which is staying in touch with its owner via Twitter: So it is with Tom […]
Science Art: Surface of a Western honeybee’s eye, by Janice Carr and Connie Flowers.
Click to embiggen Gaze into the eye of the bee, and the colony gazes into you. This is not honeycomb, but the individual components (ommatidia) […]
Electric current rouses the vegetative after years of unconsciousness.
New Scientist has an amazing new therapy for patients in a vegetative state – using the same direct current-stimulation that increases creative “flow” to turn […]
Three-armed cyborg drummer. Yeah. A drummer with a third robot arm.
Georgia Tech researchers are trying to become prosthetic Neal Pearts, Science Daily reports, with an improvising robotic drumming limb: The robotic drumming prosthesis has motors […]
Robot swarms that build. By themselves…
Nature digs up the info on the termite robots built this castle: The robots all work independently. Each travels along a grid and can move, […]
Giant, prehistoric virus thawed from Siberian permafrost.
New Scientist is not (we hope) introducing a 1950s-style horror film with their story on the giant, prehistoric virus THAT LIVES AGAIN: Dubbed a pithovirus […]
This laser turns us *on*.
At least if we’re flies, it does. Nature has more on the laser beam that puts flies in the mood for love: Optogenetics — triggering […]
Science Art: An X-class Solar Flare, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
A scientific visualization from NASA Goddard’s Scientific Visualization Studio, who have this to say about it: An X-class solar flare erupted on the left side […]
Should you really eat that lobster? On invertebrates and pain…
New Scientist takes a surprisingly nuanced look at the way things like oysters and shrimp might actually be responding to trauma. They’re not all the […]
Largest space telescope is ready to… observe.
PhysOrg has the skinny on ESA’s Gaia telescope and its quest to catalogue a billion stars: Gaia will be able to discern objects up to […]
MIT astrophysicists set to detect just *how* weird the universe really is.
DailyGalaxy.com shares the weird – an experiment that’s been proposed to tell for once and for all if classical physics can explain the universe, or […]
SONG: “The Road We Wander”
SONG: “The Road We Wander.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Monarch migration may become extinct,” Laboratory Equipment, 30 […]