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.)
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SOURCE: Based on “These roaches for…
Read moreOUCH. Nature pulls no punches with OUCH. The ways they’re moving forward with stem cell therapies are pretty ingenious:
… Read the rest “Stem cell headline winner: “Bendable needle increases reach of a single injection to the brain.””Several laboratories are investigating ways to treat neurological
Frida Polli, one of the financial folks at Forbes, is offering us a look at the sausage-factory of neuroscience funding:
… Read the rest “Forbes follows how science gets started up.”In 2007, after 6 years of PhD work, I arrived at the McGovern Institute
A sub-continental crocodilian, found on that good ol’ Scientific Illustration tumblog.
It was painted by Wilhelm Eigener, one of Germany’s most sought-after… Read the rest “Science Art: Indian Gharial by Wilhelm Eigener, 1958”
PLOSone is going to lead to videogame suites being installed in major training hospitals, I just know it, thanks to research showing that playing Nintendo Wii improves surgeons’… Read the rest “Wii builds better surgeons.”
Or at least, Astrobiology says, save the species’ descendants. The secret of survival, on an evolutionary scale, isn’t a single lucky mutant, but a whole “relay team”… Read the rest “Slow and steady mutations save the species.”
Reddit’s just had a Q&A with the CEO of a company dedicated to 3D printing edible meat:
… Read the rest ““Human meat is not on the menu. Sorry.””At Modern Meadow we’re developing technology to 3D-bioprint meat and leather. In fact,
Space Daily enthuses over a strange formation snapped by Hubble – a deep-space V made by two galaxies, overlapping like enormous wings in space:
… Read the rest “Hubble snaps galactic vee.”This large “flying V”
A Devonian fish with a bony head.
That means it was swimming around hundreds of millions of years before the dinosaurs.
Found on the Scientific Illustration tumblog.
SONG: “Spirit of the Words” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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SOURCE: Based on Computer program roots out ancestors of modern… Read the rest “SONG: Spirit of the Words”
PhysOrg gets non-linear with their look at “time reversal” and how we might soon use it:
… Read the rest ““Once time runs backwards, we’ll….” Now wait a minute. What?”Imagine a cell phone charger that recharges your phone remotely without even knowing
The Economist is gazing into the pretty colors…not of quantum computers, but quantum television screens:
… Read the rest “We’ll all be staring at quantum dots.”An LCD screen works with a backlight shining through red, blue or green
Nature looks at the star power of “network theory,” curious statistics that control all kinds of complicated systems. They’ve found that even really complex networks… Read the rest “Finding the influential few. In medicine, in politics, and in social networks….”
Not individual whales, but whole new species. Science has the details on the big, big discovery in California’s highway system:
… Read the rest “Road workers discover four whales. (One very scary one.)”“In California, you need a paleontologist and an
Originally published in A naturalist’s sojourn in Jamaica, by Philip Gosse, who had awesome sideburns. And a relationship with M&N Hanhart, prolific publishers… Read the rest “Science Art: Plate IV: Chilabothrus Inornatus and Dactyloa Edwardsii, by M&N Hanhart,1851.”
You may have heard about this by now, but a 10-ton chunk of space rock slammed into the atmosphere over Chelyabinsk, Russia, and exploded, RT and dozens of other outlets have reported. The… Read the rest “Meteor explodes over Urals. I’m not making that up.”
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