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: In a study involving […]
Science Art: Mirounga leonina 01, by H. Zell
This is a southern elephant seal, the largest marine mammal that isn’t a whale. They’re about twice as weighty …
Read moreScience Art: What can make any tape recorder sound a little more like an Ampex?, 1963.
This is an ad for Ampex tape from the August 1963 edition of Electronics Australia, a magazine (which I found o…
Read moreScience Art: Cygnus region in emission lines, 2025
This is a photo of space with a bit of color amplification so we can tell what we’re looking at. Nebulas on the…
Read moreScience Art: Heart apical two-chamber view myocardial regions, by Patrick Lynch
This is an illustration of a particular perspective in a cardiac echocardiogram. An “apical view” is one of the…
Read moreSONG: Sleeping Cathedrals
SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…
Read moreScience Art: Build Your Own Lie Detector, 1955
This is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, …
Read more(Can’t beat this headline) “How to regrow your head.”
Nature has the details on what it takes to come back from a decapitation: Knocking out a single gene can switch on a worm’s ability […]
Lab-grown meat: first taste “feels like a conventional hamburger”
AP (via Yahoo!) has the first reactions to meat grown in a petri dish rather than on a farm: Two volunteers who participated in the […]
Science Art: Sketch of a Decompression Chamber in Use from Caisson Sickness, and the Physiology of Work in Compressed Air, by Leonard Hill, M.B., 1912.
People seem to like caissons (pressurized chambers used to build foundations underwater), or so my search referrals tell me. Well, here’s what working in a […]
Zookeepers baffled by spooked baboons.
BBC says that’s what’s going on in the Netherlands. The baboons were terrified, but no one knows why; The behaviour started on Monday evening, and […]
Watch your dog’s left eyebrow. That’s how they say they’re glad to see you.
Doctor Dolittle… well, not exactly. But The Telegraph reads dogs’ faces to see if they’re happy to see you: Animal behaviour experts have found the […]
A blood test for Alzheimer’s disease – almost here.
BBC reports on the struggle to develop an early blood test for Alzheimer’s: A technique published in the journal Genome Biology showed differences in the […]
Controlling rats with OUR BRAINS.
ExtremeTech introduces the technology of the supervillain – the brain-to-brain interface (BBI), a new device that lets humans control animals with their thoughts: Simply by […]
Grace makes the meal taste better (and singing improves the birthday cake).
The Telegraph celebrates the effect rituals have on our appetites, with research that shows saying grace makes the meal taste better: The study, by researchers […]
Meet the woman who found “the God particle”.
FT.com introduces us to the genteel, cultured Fabiola Gianotti – accomplished pianist, paleontologist’s daughter, coffee enthusiast, trained classicist… and the kind of person who hunts […]
Science Art: First test flight with an aerostat at Annonay
From “Collection 476, 1re série” collector cards showing the history of ballooning. They were printed in France sometime before 1900. The Montgolfier Brothers flew their […]
A book that’s physically older than Jesus.
Archaeologists in China have found a collection of bamboo texts – including copies of the I Ching, Tao Te Ching, the Analects of Confucius and […]
SONG: Better angels.
SONG: “Better Angels” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media,” The Guardian, […]
Climate change real-estate boom: Buy high. Really high.
Fast Company looks to the heights to chronicle a potential climate change real estate boom: Scientists and politicians have even come to the conclusion that […]
Science Art: Plate from Kitab fi al-adwiyah al-mufradah by Abu Ja`far al-Ghafiqi.
In the 11th century, this was the pinnacle of medical knowledge – a book called Kitab fi al-adwiyah al-mufradah compiled by an Andalusian scholar Abu […]