I found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is a…
Read moreSONG: “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 moreScience Daily reaches out its withered hands to hold up the promise of a viral cure for aging:
… Read the rest “Doctor, make me forever young.”Researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), led by its director María
Discover launches a thousand new phobia cases with their expose (and I cannot do better than their headline here) Hidden Epidemic: Tapeworms in the Brain:
… Read the rest “I can honestly conceive of nothing less pleasant than this.”A blob in the brain is not the image
National Geographic unveils Kepler’s latest discovery – a really black planet:
… Read the rest “According to Public Enemy, I should now be very afraid…”Orbiting only about three million miles out from its star, the Jupiter-size gas giant planet,
Medical Xpress takes a closer look at the hazy, flickering way we really perceive the world:
… Read the rest “We only ever glimpse things in flashes….”The [University of Glasgow] researchers studied a prominent brain rhythm associated with visual
This is how to get hydrogen and oxygen from water – acidulated water – by using a Grove’s battery and two platinum wires. And “decomposing” the water. Try… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. 9, (electrolysis of water) from Chemistry, 1876.”
SONG: “This Stupid War.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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SOURCE: Based on “Pesticide exposure linked to brain changes:… Read the rest “SONG: “This Stupid War””
Science magazine shores up our infrastructure with a report on how a kid’s toy can save our streets:
… Read the rest “Silly putty pothole repair”…[U]ndergraduates at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland…
New Scientist has a knack for bringing weird science to life. In this case, electronic germ-based computers:
… Read the rest “Magnetic bacteria make lively hard drives.”Hard drives are usually made by “sputtering”, in which clouds
The Telegraph (yes, I know, but…) gives hope to the potentially millions of women fed up with the regular ritual of mammograms with news that a new blood test can detect cancer risk … Read the rest “Blood test for breast cancer.”
Wired takes a leap into the cephashionable world of cephalopod textiles to give a sneak peak at next season’s color-changing squid-muscle shirts:
… Read the rest “Squid muscle is the new black (and red and green and blue….)”“We have taken inspiration
No, McClatchy ain’t making this up. Members of SETI and NASA are using an airship to seek traces of meteorites – and, possibly, alien life:
… Read the rest “A zeppelin for hunting space rocks.”On Thursday, the scientists flew
In 1912, aeronautics was a sport.
And the athletes had to start their engines somehow… so Bosch, now known mostly for their spark plugs, made magnetos. And summoned… Read the rest “Science Art: Bosch Magneto ad, Aeronautics, July, 1912”
AFP goes even farther than that. A common pesticide actually changes the structure of kids’ brains:
… Read the rest “Stupid pesticide lowers your kids’ IQs.”The study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examined New
PhysOrg says that porn is safer than religion… at least when it comes to online viruses:
… Read the rest “Holy viruses! (On your computer.)”Websites with religious or ideological themes were found to have triple the average number
New Scientist does its best to make nanomaterials sexy… like the new silicon stuff that’s stealing carbon’s limelight:
… Read the rest “Atom-thick silicon is the latest miracle STUFF.”Patrick Vogt of Berlin’s Technical
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