SONG: “Regenerative Medicine”
SONG: “Regenerative Medicine” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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SOURCE: Based on “Decellularized Mouse Heart Beats… Read the rest “SONG: “Regenerative Medicine””
SONG: Alone
SONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
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SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack …
Read moreScience Art: Fowler - Coregonus Nelsonii Bean.
This is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreScience Art: Paraboloide Circular 02, by Rodrigo Argenton
This is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wiki…
Read moreScience Art: Azimuth and Altitude Instrument, c. 1876
This is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically describe…
Read moreScience Art: Solar Explosions, G79, by Clement Lindley Wragge.
This 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
SONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.)
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Read more Plants hear herbivores coming. No, really.
National Geographic reveals what really goes on in a plant’s… mind?… when sap-thirsty plant killers are on the prowl:
… Read the rest “Plants hear herbivores coming. No, really.”[University of Wisconsin researcher John] Orrock
When we judge a musician, movement matters more than the music.
Nature strikes fear into the heart of the awkward would-be indie rocker with a study that shows people put more weight on the way a musician moves than on the actual music:
… Read the rest “When we judge a musician, movement matters more than the music.”The findings, reported
New fossil sheds light on one long-lasting group of mammals.
National Geographic explains why multituberculates – flexible, cute little pre-rodents – are so important. Before vanishing 35 million years ago, they’d been around… Read the rest “New fossil sheds light on one long-lasting group of mammals.”
Parents *shocked* by study linking soda to kids’ behavioral problems.
Science Daily doesn’t actually get into the parents’ responses, but it’s easy enough to imagine. Columbia University researchers have linked soft drinks to “aggression,… Read the rest “Parents *shocked* by study linking soda to kids’ behavioral problems.”
Science Art: Hearts and Lungs by Juan de Valverde, 1598
In which the dissector becomes the dissected as well, sternum reaching upward like a bird’s wings in flight.
From Wikimedia Commons.
These guys are tracking the Space Station with coat hangers.
GigaOm has a great DIY project for space fans:
… Read the rest “These guys are tracking the Space Station with coat hangers.”Signals picked up by the antenna, which is made of a 10-foot wooden board and metal coat hangers, are converted into tones that differ depending
Voyager has left the building.
Or rather the solar system. The University of Maryland has put its foot down and said, no matter where you want to put the borders of the solar system, the plucky little probe is on the other … Read the rest “Voyager has left the building.”
A regenerated heartbeat
Science Daily reports on a rebuilt heart – a mouse heart remade with human stem cells – that they’ve gotten to start beating:
… Read the rest “A regenerated heartbeat”For the first time, a mouse heart was able
Electricity is sapping our sleep.
Science Magazine examines our internal clock, and the power that sunlight has in saving us from being so tired of waking up tired:
… Read the rest “Electricity is sapping our sleep.”Turning lights on at night can delay melatonin release and
The worst learners are stressed-out men.
If everyone is stressed out, Scientific American seems to be saying, then women will have a mental advantage. That’s because stressed men are worse at learning:
… Read the rest “The worst learners are stressed-out men.”Male and female participants
Science Art: Tabula XXIII: De humeri fracti compositioni & luxationem cubiti, humeri, ac femoris restitutioni, from Armamentum chirurgicum, by D. Joannis Sculteti, 1656
A 17th-century guide to leg surgery. Unfortunately, my Latin’s not what it could be, so I can’t tell exactly what Dr. Joannis Sculteti is recommending we do here. I can tell,… Read the rest “Science Art: Tabula XXIII: De humeri fracti compositioni & luxationem cubiti, humeri, ac femoris restitutioni, from Armamentum chirurgicum, by D. Joannis Sculteti, 1656”
Some critters are so small, they can’t make a species.
That’s the argument Laboratory Equipment describes some mathematical taxonomists (there’s a discipline for you) are making – claiming that some kinds of plankton… Read the rest “Some critters are so small, they can’t make a species.”
Mosquitos *taste* heat.
Science Daily has more on the strange, previously unknown sensory organ in insects:
… Read the rest “Mosquitos *taste* heat.”Notice how mosquitoes always seem to bite where there is the most blood? That is because those areas are
Red light beats blue mood.
Medical Xpress reports on the colorful work of Ohio State U neuroscientists who have studied the effects of nightlights on depression:
… Read the rest “Red light beats blue mood.”In a study involving hamsters, researchers found