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Plastic-eating mushrooms clean us up.

13 February 2012 grant 0

TG Daily reports on a new hope for clearing up our old landfills – by feeding the plastic to a very special rain-forest mushroom:

Pestalotiopsis microspora, found in the jungles of

… Read the rest “Plastic-eating mushrooms clean us up.”

Science Art: Pfd-symbols, from the free open source program, Dia.

15 January 2012 grant 0

Image from Wikimedia Commons.

These symbols show steps in various chemical processes – the things you can do to change substances. Well, the things chemical engineers can do, one… Read the rest “Science Art: Pfd-symbols, from the free open source program, Dia.”

Air miner.

26 October 2011 grant b 0

Lando. Lando Calrissian. Cloud miner. Sounds like a great space opera profession, doesn’t it? But National Geographic is talking about exploiting the atmosphere for fuel:

…[S]cience

… Read the rest “Air miner.”

Tea’s secrets revealed – by kid detectives.

22 July 2011 grant b 0

New York Times recognizes the work of some teenage sleuths in finding what’s really in that fancy herbal tea:

Catherine C. Gamble, a senior who will be attending Harvard this fall;

… Read the rest “Tea’s secrets revealed – by kid detectives.”

Science Art: RC540 stereo animation.gif by Brian0918

23 May 2011 grant b 0


Click to embiggen and animate

This is a large buckyball molecule – which is to say, a form of carbon, the same stuff in pencil leads and engagement rings, formed into a more geometrically… Read the rest “Science Art: RC540 stereo animation.gif by Brian0918”

Fracking stinkwater.

12 May 2011 grant b 0

Nature looks at the odoriferous threat to our drinking water created by new methods of natural gas mining:

Injecting large quantities of water and other fluids to fracture deep rock formations

… Read the rest “Fracking stinkwater.”

Grapefruit vs. bugs.

19 April 2011 grant b 0

NPR’s reporting sounds almost too good to be true as it extols the virtues of an all-natural, edible grapefruit extract that repels mosquitoes, ticks and bedbugs:

Marc Dolan of the

… Read the rest “Grapefruit vs. bugs.”

Scent of tears.

10 January 2011 grant b 0

It’s a real turn-off, according to PhysOrg.com. They found that a chemical in women’s tears kills the mood for men – even if the crying woman is nowhere to be found:

But

… Read the rest “Scent of tears.”

Too clean, too sensitive.

30 November 2010 grant b 0

Metro.co.uk brings us yet another report on the problems with cleanliness:

The modern trend for using antibacterial soaps is actually harming young people by making them more prone to

… Read the rest “Too clean, too sensitive.”

SONG: Run Straight Down (penitential Warren Zevon cover)

12 October 2010 grant b 0

SONG: “Run Straight Down” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant. Originally by Warren Zevon.

SOURCE: This is a penitential cover.… Read the rest “SONG: Run Straight Down (penitential Warren Zevon cover)”

Atomic cars.

6 October 2010 grant b 0

Finally. The good folks at Discovery News give us some hope we’ll be able to drive around with uranium fuel:

Scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory have created a long-sought

… Read the rest “Atomic cars.”

Nobel-winning goof-offs.

5 October 2010 grant b 0

In case you missed it this morning, NPR had a story about graphene, the single-atom-thin form of carbon that won its inventors a Nobel prize… even though it all started as a lab joke … Read the rest “Nobel-winning goof-offs.”

Dry water.

27 August 2010 grant b 0

No, not ice, but, as the Telegraph explains it, a form of water that just isn’t wet:

Each particle of dry water contains a water droplet surrounded by a sandy silica coating. In fact,

… Read the rest “Dry water.”

Pee-pee power.

24 August 2010 grant b 0

I went there. No, really, I went there. The BBC reports on the way chemists will use urine as fuel:

Dr Tao said: “Growing up in rural eastern China I was aware of the use of urea as an agricultural

… Read the rest “Pee-pee power.”

Radioactive boars rising.

9 August 2010 grant b 0

Oh. OK.

Discovery is reporting that the population of radioactive boars is increasing in Europe:

Radioactive wild boars are on the rise in Germany, where they have attacked and frightened

… Read the rest “Radioactive boars rising.”

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Honorary Troubadours
  • Jonathan Coulton, Contributing Troubadour for Popular Science.
  • Laura Veirs, who knows her way around a polysyllable.
  • Thomas Dolby, godfather of scientific pop.
  • Squeaky, fact-based rock about fusion containment & rocket science.
  • Cosmos II, a.k.a. Boston University astronomer Alan Marscher.
  • Dr. Fiorella Terenzi, astrophysicist who makes music from cosmic radio sources.
  • Dr. Jim Webb, astronomy professor and acoustic guitarist.
  • Artichoke, the band behind 26 Scientists, Vols. I and II.
  • They Might Be Giants, unrelenting proponents of scientific popular song.
  • Symphonies of Science, the people who make Carl Sagan and others sing.
  • Giant Squid, doom metal about the sublime horrors of marine biology.
  • Gethan Dick,6 scientists, 6 musicians, 1 great album
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