Vampire batteries for implants eternal!
New Scientist pulls back the veil from a team of Canadian biotech researchers who have built a yeast-based fuel cell that can run on blood: […]
SONG: 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 moreScience Art: Astrapia Splendidissima, 1895
This is the first illustration in the article “A New Bird of Paradise” by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, published…
Read moreFirst-person shooters in shades of gray.
From Chris Pirillo’s Lockergnome comes news of good cheer to those who can’t tear their gaze away from Left4Dead for more than a few seconds […]
Spank for a happy relationship!
New Scientist, always on the raw, throbbing edge of behavioral science, reveals the heartwarming findings about the couple that spanks together: SPANKING is stressful at […]
Jacket makes movies feelies.
The IEEE (what used to be the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) reports in Spectrum about a strange new entertainment breakthrough that combines neurology, […]
Moon Flowers.
Peggy Lee, Santana and Hugh Lofting all predicted, in their own ways, what MSNBC’s Cosmic Log is reporting as news… about Paragon Space Development Corp’s […]
Science Art: Ambystoma maculatum by John D. Willson
A spotted salamander, spotted in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Photo from the USGS Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative.
We’re not doing science right.
As if we needed someone to tell us about it, Science Daily informs us Americans that we’re failing at basic scientific literacy: Despite its importance […]
Hurdia victoria: SHRIMPZILLA!
PhysOrg once again brings prehistoric monsters to life: Although the first fragments were described nearly one hundred years ago, they were assumed to be part […]
SONG: Visibility
SONG: “Visibility” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Strange fish has a see-through head”, MSNBC/LiveScience, 23 Feb 2009, as used in […]
Science Art: Euproctis chrysorrhoea ugglan, Nordisk familjebok
Euproctis chrysorrhoea, better known as the Browntail moth. It stings our skin and devastates our farmland, and is the subject of experiments using pheromones as […]
Electric cars still driving!
The New York Times gives hope for a better drive home with a report on a new approach to electric cars… from the filling station […]
Guild Salute: Jesse Nesbitt
Creativity comes from limitations, yes? Jesse Nesbitt is writing and recording 100 songs in 2009. These are not particularly scientific, but this is certainly a […]
Roboctopus!
New Scientist introduces our latest underwater overlords – or at least the blueprints for one – in a story about Italian researchers who’re designing the […]
The view from there.
Item 1: The Telegraph reports on a group of teenagers who used a <$100 camera and a balloon to take some great pictures of space: […]
Guitarists’ brains click together.
ScientificBlogging covers some fun experiments that involve hooking musicians up to EEG machines, letting them rock out together and watching their brainwaves fall into the […]