Doctor, make me forever young.
Science Daily reaches out its withered hands to hold up the promise of a viral cure for aging: Researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Research […]
Science Art: Jupiter's Family of Comets, 1898
This is a diagram from A New Astronomy For Beginners, a textbook that’s about a century and a quarter old, or a…
Read moreSONG: Your Catalogue
SONG: “Your Catalogue”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: NBC News, “New wild cat species is ide…
Read moreScience Art: Beebe's Bathysphäre, 1934
This is an image of William Beebe’s bathysphere, as placed on Wikimedia Commons by ETH Bibliothek. It was creat…
Read moreScience Art: Power of RCA Electron Microscope, May 1955
These are diatoms, I think, seen by two different microscopes.
As the caption from Popular Electronics says…
Read moreScience Art: Red Pepper, 1910.
Red pepper (Cayenne pepper) will cure almost any case of la grippe within 24 hours, or so they say. At least no…
Read moreScience Art: Figs. 1315-1333 (Various rotary piston engines), 1890.
This is a page of figures from (deep breath) The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appli…
Read moreI can honestly conceive of nothing less pleasant than this.
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: […]
According to Public Enemy, I should now be very afraid…
National Geographic unveils Kepler’s latest discovery – a really black planet: Orbiting only about three million miles out from its star, the Jupiter-size gas giant […]
We only ever glimpse things in flashes….
Medical Xpress takes a closer look at the hazy, flickering way we really perceive the world: The [University of Glasgow] researchers studied a prominent brain […]
Science Art: Fig. 9, (electrolysis of water) from Chemistry, 1876.
This is how to get hydrogen and oxygen from water – acidulated water – by using a Grove’s battery and two platinum wires. And “decomposing” […]
SONG: “This Stupid War”
SONG: “This Stupid War.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Pesticide exposure linked to brain changes: study”, AFP, via […]
Silly putty pothole repair
Science magazine shores up our infrastructure with a report on how a kid’s toy can save our streets: …[U]ndergraduates at Case Western Reserve University in […]
Magnetic bacteria make lively hard drives.
New Scientist has a knack for bringing weird science to life. In this case, electronic germ-based computers: Hard drives are usually made by “sputtering”, in […]
Blood test for breast cancer.
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 […]
Squid muscle is the new black (and red and green and blue….)
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: “We have taken […]
A zeppelin for hunting space rocks.
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: […]
Science Art: Bosch Magneto ad, Aeronautics, July, 1912
Click to embiggen In 1912, aeronautics was a sport. And the athletes had to start their engines somehow… so Bosch, now known mostly for their […]
Stupid pesticide lowers your kids’ IQs.
AFP goes even farther than that. A common pesticide actually changes the structure of kids’ brains: The study in the Proceedings of the National Academy […]
Holy viruses! (On your computer.)
PhysOrg says that porn is safer than religion… at least when it comes to online viruses: Websites with religious or ideological themes were found to […]
Atom-thick silicon is the latest miracle STUFF.
New Scientist does its best to make nanomaterials sexy… like the new silicon stuff that’s stealing carbon’s limelight: Patrick Vogt of Berlin’s Technical University in […]