Breast-feeding grows brains.
Futurity hops on the lactation train with a study that proves breastfed babies grow their brains earlier and better: [T]his is the first imaging study […]
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 moreSciAm’s 30 under 30 – and a pack of Nobel laureates they can mingle with.
Scientific American looks forward to an experimental party. We’re going to watch what happens when you put 30 young chemists in a room with some […]
Specific numbers make negotiations more favorable. For you. Not the other guy.
Doesn’t matter who you are or what you want, University Herald explains. The negotiator who asks for the specific number gets the upper hand: Research […]
Synthetic skin for a more sensitive robot.
New Scientist explores the gentler side of our eventual mechanical overlords, as engineers create a sensor-studded skin for a gentle, sensitive robot: Most robots are […]
The smarter you are, the less you’ll be distracted by large-scale…. Wait, what was I saying?
BBC puts on a big show about how smart folks’ brains filter out big background motions – a capacity that proves that intelligence is really… […]
Science Art: VASIMR (Variable specific impulse magnetoplasma rocket)
Click to embiggen This is one way we might visit that rosy Saturn hurricane from last week. It’s VASIMR, a rocket engine that uses plasma […]
Breast milk makes antibiotics work better.
Or, Sci-News.com seems to be saying, a protein from breast milk at least undoes
Google brings the internet to Africa. By blimp.
The Telegraph reports on (or, at least, repeats Wired‘s reporting on) the dirigibles spreading the World Wide Web to places no internet has gone before: […]
Twin beams of light make fiberoptics better.
By about four times, BBC reports. Using double beams of light quadruples the data capacity of fiber-optic cables: What limits the distance a given light […]
Paint your own circuits with electronic pens.
PhysOrg gives new meaning to “magic marker” with these pens that draw flexible circuits in whatever shape you like: London-based Bare Conductive Ltd. makes electrically […]
Science Art: “The Rose,” NASA Image of the Day Gallery,
This is not actually a flower. It’s a giant hurricane – Saturn’s answer to Jupiter’s Big Red Spot. From the NASA Image of the Day […]
SONG: Back to the Printer
SONG:“Back to the Printer” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “MIT and Harvard’s 3D-Printed Inchworm Robot Can Assemble Itself,” […]
The shape of thoughts.
Science Daily draws a clearer map than ever before showing how complicated networks of neurons – not individual neurons – make thoughts happen: They do […]
A new way of looking at dinosaur brains.
PhysOrg goes *inside* the skull to figure out how – and how quickly – a dinosaur’s brain developed: Stephan Lautenschlager from Bristol’s School of Earth […]
They printed a skull and stuck it in someone’s head.
Singularity Hub reports on the pioneering surgery that used 3D printing to replace 75 percent of a patient’s skull: At the beginning of March of […]