SONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
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SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack …
Read moreThis is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreThis is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wiki…
Read moreThis is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically describe…
Read moreThis is a slide from the magic lantern shows of Clement Lindley Wragge, a popularizer of astronomy, a meteorolo…
Read moreSONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “These roaches for…
Read moreLaboratory Equipment explains why moving the morning bell a little later makes education more effective:
… Read the rest “Later school starting times make for better students.”Julie Boergers, a psychologist and sleep expert from the Bradley Hasbro Children’s
From the US Naval Research Laboratory manual Mechanical Practice.
There’s also a *great* diagram of Phillips-head screws.
Nature examines he implications of a planet that *should* be a twin to Earth, but isn’t – because it’s a gassy Earth-sized planet:
… Read the rest “Earth-like planets might not be so Earth-like… as gassy Earth shows.”Not only is the planet too warm for liquid
BBC describes the first drone that can hover by flapping its wings:
… Read the rest “This robot flies like jellyfish swim.”The work by Leif Ristroph and Stephen Childress from New York University (NYU) is published in the UK Royal Society journal
And your mood, of course, but Laboratory Equipment doesn’t get into that. No, all they focus on is the boost caffeine gives your long-term memory:
… Read the rest “Caffeine improves your memory.”Michael Yassa, assistant professor
Washington Post has more on how a bit of literature can alter the structure of your brain:
… Read the rest “Stories change your brain.”“Stories shape our lives and in some cases help define a person,” says neuroscientist Gregory Berns,
Times of India reports that they’ve just found some pterosaur footprints in north India’s Jaisalmer Basin:
… Read the rest “Rarer than pterodactyl footprints…”“Near the Thaiyat Village on the Jaisalmer-Jodhpur highway
A visualization of every solar system discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope as of February 2012 – that’s 885 plaents in 361 systems. There’s… Read the rest “Science Art: The Kepler Orrery II”
Laboratory Equipment has more on the Helmholz coil (a bit of antique lab machinery) and how one of its strange qualities might help Sandia’s “Z machine” fusion experiment… Read the rest “Steampunk solutions: 19th-century tech used by Sandia fusion researchers”
SEN has us baffled by a recently discovered planet that shouldn’t be there:
… Read the rest “The impossible planet.”The new world is the farthest out from its home star of any previously found. It is 11 times more massive than
Nature looks at the widening gap in understanding earthquake lights… not a gap in our knowledge, but in the ground, as fault lines pull apart to create eerie lights before quakes: … Read the rest “Earthquake lights go deeper”
The Guardian polls scientists to get their favorite (and corniest) science jokes:
… Read the rest “A positron and an electron walk into a bar…”? A weed scientist goes into a shop. He asks: “Hey, you got any of that inhibitor of 3-phosphoshikimate-carboxyvinyl
This is where European scientists work on experiments for the Compact Muon Spectrometer and Atlas, the project that found the Higgs boson.
Which is to say, smart people… Read the rest “Science Art: Bldng40cropped.jpg (CERN office building 40), by Gillis Danielsen.”
The Telegraph marvels at physicists learning how to levitate and move solid objects using sound waves:
… Read the rest “Sound levitation. No magnets. Sound.”They then levitate match heads, drops of water, screws and nuts.
The researchers
I can’t even begin with this one. But yes, researchers at the Czech University of Agriculture have determined that dogs orient themselves to magnetic north when excreting:
… Read the rest “Dogs poop in alignment with the Earth’s magnetic field”We measured
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