Wii builds better surgeons.
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 […]
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 moreSlow and steady mutations save the species.
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 […]
“Human meat is not on the menu. Sorry.”
Reddit’s just had a Q&A with the CEO of a company dedicated to 3D printing edible meat: At Modern Meadow we’re developing technology to 3D-bioprint […]
Hubble snaps galactic vee.
Space Daily enthuses over a strange formation snapped by Hubble – a deep-space V made by two galaxies, overlapping like enormous wings in space: This […]
Science Art: Cephalaspis by John Dunn
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 […]
SONG: Spirit of the Words
SONG: “Spirit of the Words” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on Computer program roots out ancestors of modern tongues”, […]
“Once time runs backwards, we’ll….” Now wait a minute. What?
PhysOrg gets non-linear with their look at “time reversal” and how we might soon use it: Imagine a cell phone charger that recharges your phone […]
We’ll all be staring at quantum dots.
The Economist is gazing into the pretty colors…not of quantum computers, but quantum television screens: An LCD screen works with a backlight shining through red, […]
Finding the influential few. In medicine, in politics, and in social networks….
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 […]
Road workers discover four whales. (One very scary one.)
Not individual whales, but whole new species. Science has the details on the big, big discovery in California’s highway system: “In California, you need a […]
Science Art: Plate IV: Chilabothrus Inornatus and Dactyloa Edwardsii, by M&N Hanhart,1851.
Click to embiggen. Originally published in A naturalist’s sojourn in Jamaica, by Philip Gosse, who had awesome sideburns. And a relationship with M&N Hanhart, prolific […]
Meteor explodes over Urals. I’m not making that up.
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 […]
“Breathe, supernova! Now PUSH!” (Watching a black hole being born.)
CNet reports on NASA researchers who may have snapped the first pictures of a new black hole being born: Caught on film by NASA’s Chandra […]
This is how you scare the fearless. Neurologically.
Nature examines the biology of fear – and how researchers have succeeded in creating fear in the fearless: Many studies on animals over the years […]
“Bituqen” is Proto-Polynesian for “star.” A computer figured that out.
Nature reports on the algorithm researchers have devised to find (or recreate) the ancestors of modern languages: Statistician Alexandre Bouchard-Côté of the University of British […]