February 2012
25 posts
“Scientists do not trust what is intuitively obvious, because intuitively obvious...”
– Carl Sagan - Wonder and Skepticism. (via scipsy)
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The Secret and Sordid Sex Lives of Scientists →
Faster-than-light neutrino results were due to a... →
discoverynews:
theweekmagazine:
And not just any mistake. A LOOSE CABLE.
“There was a good reason the measurements and reality weren’t lining up: a loose fiber optic cable was causing one of the atomic clocks used to time the neutrinos’ flight to produce spurious results.”
oops
Watchtheatlanticvideo:
Why Space? A Surreal 1957 Cartoon About Space Exploration
Courtesy of the Internet Archive, this animated film from the Department of Defense makes the case for space.
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Download The Universe - A New Kind of Review For A... →
jtotheizzoe:
A consortium of all my favorite science writers brings you “Download the Universe”, a project dedicated to reviewing the exploding number of science e-books available.
This isn’t for Kindle spin-offs of print books. It’s manuscripts, Kindle singles, self-published essays, iPad anatomy references … anything that’s specific to the e-book format.
Watchtheatlanticvideo:
How Water Drops Orbit a Needle in Zero Gravity
In this video from NASA, astronaut Don Pettit demonstrates how water drops orbit a charged knitting needle in the absence of gravity, modeling a solar system.
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'Oldest living thing on Earth' discovered →
impishtubist:
“Ancient patches of a giant seagrass in the Mediterranean Sea are now considered the oldest living organism on Earth.”
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New procedure repairs severed nerves in minutes,... →
Relevant articles:
Cellular Mechanisms of Plasmalemmal Sealing and Axonal Repair by Polyethylene Glycol and Methylene Blue
Rapid,Effective and Long-Lasting Behavioral Recovery Produced by Microsutures, Methylene Blue, and Polyethylene Glycol After Completely Cutting Rat Sciatic Nerves
New High Grade Telescopes
realcleverscience:
fakescience:
rofl
Is the Earth getting lighter? →
jtotheizzoe:
Yes, yes it is.
It both gains and loses mass, but is trimming down over time.
And you might be surprised to find out why.
Watchdiscoverynews:
NASA’s GRAIL mission has beamed back its first video of the far side of the moon. The imagery was taken on Jan. 19 by the MoonKAM aboard the mission’s ‘Ebb’ spacecraft.
Spiders dodge cannibalism through remote... →
nostrich:
In other animal-related news, male orb-spiders break off their own genitals while inside females, which keeps pumping semen into her, to increase the odds of fertilisation in case the female, which has a penchant for cannibalism, decides to eat him. (This strategy is probably not recommended for humans.)
January 2012
22 posts
Scientists gear up to take a picture of a black... →
“A team at Cornell University, with support from Darpa, the Pentagon’s out-there...”
– Wired: Pentagon Scientists Use ‘Time Hole’ to Make Events Disappear (via curiositycounts)
“A vaccine that may prevent HIV has been given the green light by the U.S. Food...”
– HIV vaccine trial approved by FDA - Health - CBC News
Holy cow this is fantastic news.
(via ubermichael)
Incredible!
(via eryntherat)
Yay science! Hopefully HIV is eradicated in our lifetime. How amazing would that be?
(via rarity-is-best-pony)
I can’t wait until Michele Bachmann announces it...
December 2011
16 posts
