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Overseer of the longest experiment has passed on. 26 Aug 2013 | 10:50 pm
RIP, John Mainstone, custodian of the Pitch Drop Experiment. Solid or liquid, it will continue to ooze so slowly. New Straits Times marks the end of an era, but the middle of the world’s longest-runni...
Science Art: Astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz spreads bean dip on a tortilla, from The Astronaut’s Cookbook, 2010 26 Aug 2013 | 07:08 am
This NASA snapshot was found in the archive.org copy of Charles Bourland and Gregory Vogt’s The Astronaut’s Cookbook, Springer Science+Business Publications, 2010. The bottom half of the page is a te...
SONG: “Regenerative Medicine” 24 Aug 2013 | 10:25 am
SONG: “Regenerative Medicine” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Decellularized Mouse Heart Beats Again After Regenerating With Human Heart Precursor Cell...
Plants hear herbivores coming. No, really. 22 Aug 2013 | 10:50 pm
National Geographic reveals what really goes on in a plant’s… mind?… when sap-thirsty plant killers are on the prowl: [University of Wisconsin researcher John] Orrock and botanist Simon Gilroy show t...
When we judge a musician, movement matters more than the music. 21 Aug 2013 | 10:54 pm
Nature strikes fear into the heart of the awkward would-be indie rocker with a study that shows people put more weight on the way a musician moves than on the actual music: The findings, reported thi...
New fossil sheds light on one long-lasting group of mammals. 20 Aug 2013 | 11:40 pm
National Geographic explains why multituberculates – flexible, cute little pre-rodents – are so important. Before vanishing 35 million years ago, they’d been around for 130 million years, scampering a...
Parents *shocked* by study linking soda to kids’ behavioral problems. 19 Aug 2013 | 11:44 pm
Science Daily doesn’t actually get into the parents’ responses, but it’s easy enough to imagine. Columbia University researchers have linked soft drinks to “aggression, attention problems, and withdra...
Science Art: Hearts and Lungs by Juan de Valverde, 1598 18 Aug 2013 | 10:55 pm
In which the dissector becomes the dissected as well, sternum reaching upward like a bird’s wings in flight. From Wikimedia Commons.
These guys are tracking the Space Station with coat hangers. 17 Aug 2013 | 12:11 am
GigaOm has a great DIY project for space fans: Signals picked up by the antenna, which is made of a 10-foot wooden board and metal coat hangers, are converted into tones that differ depending on the ...
Voyager has left the building. 15 Aug 2013 | 11:04 pm
Or rather the solar system. The University of Maryland has put its foot down and said, no matter where you want to put the borders of the solar system, the plucky little probe is on the other side now...
