Bars of light passing across a massive tangle of cables give the sense of being surrounded by crackling electrical signals and firing neurons as you enter the American Museum of Natural History’s new exhibit here. Most people may visit the museum for the fossils, but this time
they’ll want to stay for the brains.
via LiveScience.
I honestly can’t remember the last time I sent something using conventional mail, but it may have been more than three years ago. I hate licking stamps and envelopes and risking a paper cut in one of the worst places I can imagine. But after spotting these Mmmvelope bacon-flavored envelopes from “bacontrepreneurs” J&D’s, I might start looking for reasons to send random stuff out. And for as little as three packs of 25 for $14.99, I can send a lot.
Unusually warm ocean temperatures in the summer and fall of 2005 caused a mass die-off of Caribbean corals that is the worst ever recorded there, according to new research published yesterday in the online journal PLoS ONE.
via Scientific American.
Parents who use number words while speaking to their young children – even if the children don’t seem to grasp their meanings at first – are giving them a considerable head start in learning math, new research suggests.
Over the course of one summer vacation, Tyler Ludlum went from being a healthy 10-year-old, looking forward to the pool, to an emotionally and physically traumatized preteen who’d traded both of his feet, and half the fingers on his right hand, for his life.
It could have been prevented if he – or those around him – had been vaccinated.
Giraffe-sized pterosaurs may have pole-vaulted with their arms to launch themselves, just as vampire bats do, scientists now suggest.
Once airborne, these giant reptiles could have flown vast distances, even crossing continents, they added.
Interview with Love and Other Drugs director Edward Zwick.
A bizarre brown and yellow blob discovered in a man-made lake in Newport News, Va., last week set off wild speculation.
Some people thought the 4-foot blob was a leftover Halloween prank, perhaps a fake lake monster.
Others thought it might be an alien cocoon pod, such as those seen in films like “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.” Still others guessed that it might be the bloated corpse of a large snake or other animal.
YOU step into your diving suit and pull a helmet over your head. The helmet immediately starts to fill with liquid, but you don’t panic, you simply begin breathing in the fluid as you would air.
No, this is not a scene from the movie The Abyss (pictured), but the brainchild of inventor Arnold Lande, a retired heart and lung surgeon formerly based at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston.
via Divers could breathe deep with liquid-filled lungs – tech – 10 November 2010 – New Scientist.
Robert Englund and Bereavement star Michael Biehn join Mike Sargent for extensive interviews.
This Cave Has Been Sealed for Over 5 Million Years—And It’s Crawling with ‘Aliens,’ Scientists Say
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Its unique environment hints at the possible nature of extraterrestrial life.
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Scientists have used AI to design bacteriophages, or viruses that infect only bacteria. Does the prospect of designing viruses with AI pose threats to biosecurity?
Interstellar object spotted shedding metals in way that defies science
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Scientists have been left puzzled after spotting that the mysterious interstellar object in our Solar System is 'bleeding' metals in a way that has never been observed before.