The Light-Net.
Some bright scientists in Boston (with a little help from the government) are turning energy-efficient lights into flickering wireless repeaters: Gizmodo: The technology will be […]
Science Art: What can make any tape recorder sound a little more like an Ampex?, 1963.
This is an ad for Ampex tape from the August 1963 edition of Electronics Australia, a magazine (which I found o…
Read moreScience Art: Cygnus region in emission lines, 2025
This is a photo of space with a bit of color amplification so we can tell what we’re looking at. Nebulas on the…
Read moreScience 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 moreMusicians have ambidextrous brains.
A new Vanderbilt University study demonstrates why learning an instrument and, like, rocking out can make your brain better – because musicians use both sides […]
Terror warnings undermine conservative candidates.
PhysOrg enters the presidential fray with a new UC Berkeley study that finds playing the terror card can backfire on political conservatives: …[A] new national […]
Columbia Astronaut’s Diary Recovered
AP is carrying a poignant story about Israel’s first astronaut, whose diary survived the Columbia’s explosion over Palestine, Texas: The U.S. space agency returned the […]
Sounds that should not be.
The aptly-named NoiseAddicts online magazine delves into some unusual research as Norwegian acoustic scientists study violinist Mari Kimura, who’s able to play sounds that she […]
Science Art: Gammarellus angulosus – Near Woods Hole
Click to embiggen. A crustacean with character. From the U.W. Freshwater and Marine Image Bank.
Testosterone fuels financial crisis.
The same hormone that makes men hairy (and both genders feel frisky) is to blame for the current mess on Wall Street, say researchers: Scientific […]
If a potato can power a clock…
…then a tree can power a forest-fire deterrent system. At least, so says Discover magazine and a group of MIT scientists who’ve started a “tree […]
A Committee of Beehive Realtors?
Science Daily was recently buzzing about the decision-making strategies of bees: Scientists had known that honeybee scouts “waggle dance” to report on food. Seeley and […]
It falls everywhere.
Well, as the world markets plunge, something else has started falling. It’s snowing on Mars: iTwire reports: Canada’s York University professor Jim Whiteway, who is […]
Giving the cold shoulder? Just wash your hands of it.
SciAm warms my heart with a great interview about metaphor. Cognitive psychiatrist Chen-Bo Zhong of the University of Toronto is an expert in why certain […]
Science Art: Allosaurus Size Comparison
Click to embiggen T. rex gets all the credit, but Allosaurus – all the various species and sizes – was really the large fierce predator […]
New Dawn Fades. (Science Art: Sunrise above the Martian Arctic.)
Look at this: while listening to this. In the lifeless, frigid Martian arctic, the sun only sets at the end of summer, then rises, weakly, […]
Clever Crows Make Chimps Chumps.
Scientists in New Zealand have distressing news for those of us who enjoy a drumstick now and again. As reported in New Scientist, they’ve found […]
Sorry, Charlie.
I suppose this has been all over the British press by now, but the Church of England recently apologized to Charles Darwin: Scientific American: “The […]