(Needs confirmation) Light-speed barrier broken?
AP is reporting that CERN has made a beam of sub-atomic particles travel faster than the speed of light: University of Maryland physics department chairman […]
Science Art: Heart apical two-chamber view myocardial regions, by Patrick Lynch
This is an illustration of a particular perspective in a cardiac echocardiogram. An “apical view” is one of the…
Read moreSONG: Sleeping Cathedrals
SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…
Read moreScience Art: Build Your Own Lie Detector, 1955
This is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, …
Read moreScience Art: Collops bipunctatus, U, Back, SD, Pennington County, 2013
This image of a Collops bipunctatus, a beetle from the Melyridae family, was taken by Sam Droege from flowers …
Read moreScience Art: Histologist Microscope, 1900
An illustration of an elegant optical device from Science Gossip magazine (a publication which I discovered via…
Read moreScience Art: Rudimentary Simulator, 1963.
This is Figure 3 from “Man-Machine System Simulation for Flight Vehicles” by Steven Belsley, an article which w…
Read moreWhole Foods’ Mind Control
Fast Company reveals the tricks of the trade. Literally. Supermarket giants are using subliminal suggestion and misdirection just like master magicians: For example, sales records […]
Outside the box isn’t easy.
In fact, PhysOrg says, new solutions to old problems tend to turn people off. The more creative the solution, the harder it is to sell: […]
A Higgs boson walks into a cathedral…
No, really. A religion and science joke. A Higgs boson walks into St. Patrick’s Cathedral on a fine Sunday morning. The monsignor looks up and […]
Sweet sounds (and the neurology thereof).
Science comes a step closer to figuring out the neurology of key – or how it is that we instinctively know what sounds good: Bernardo […]
Teenage brains.
A friend of mine who taught middle school called it “hormone poisoning.” But National Geographic takes a slightly more serious look at why adolescents do […]
Science Art: False-Color Image Shows Proof of an Impact, by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft
Click to embiggen. Right now, as I write these words, the spacecraft Dawn is circling around the asteroid Vesta, trying to figure out how it […]
Gut attraction.
National Geographic looks at a new social network that matches “friends” based on their intestinal bacteria: MyMicrobes, which opened to the public last week is […]
What’d you say?
Science Daily pipes up with news that Berkeley scientists might have just cured the non-stop ringing of tinnitus: “This work is the most clearheaded documentation […]
Write wrongs with editing therapy.
Scientific American comes close to my ink-stained heart with their interview with psychology professor Timothy D. Wilson, a leading authority on using story editing to […]
Printed dishes.
Fast Company has its eyes on tomorrow’s dinner with a new application for 3D printing – food printed to order: The newest 3-D food printer, […]
Smart pills.
Reuters reports on a potential Alzheimer’s cure that helps grow more brain cells: “We make new neurons every day in our brain,” Andrew Pieper of […]
Science Art: PDB_1h54_EBI by Jawahar Swaminathan and MSD staff at the European Bioinformatics Institute
Click to embiggen. I guess I’m on a Lactobacillus kick. This is not confetti celebrating a Lactobacillus party, and it’s not a photograph of what […]
Antibiotics: not so good for your *brain*, either.
The Economist reveals the strange connection between your intestinal flora and your mood: [R]esearchers, led by Javier Bravo of University College, Cork, split their rodent […]
Antibiotics: not so good for you.
Not in the long run, anyway. That’s how Wired sums up research indicating that our wonder drugs are killing the good bugs off for good: […]