This artist’s drawing shows what the newly discovered feathered dinos — the larger species with yellow on their snouts — might have looked like.
Credit: Brian Choo
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Cool Jobs: Wide World of Robots
By Ben
Snake robots built by Howie Choset’s team can twist in many directions and move — slithering, swimming — like their namesake animal.
Credit: Howie Choset
Shuffling Shenanigans
By Ben
Using math, a magician can figure out how to find one card in a deck or how many times to shuffle the deck to really mix it up. Credit: Julie Rehmeyer
SpaceX Commercial Rocket Blasts Off For International Space Station
By Nick
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/05/22/spacex-commercial-rocket-blasts-off-for-international-space-station/
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Lasers
The new HEAF gas gun.
https://www.llnl.gov/news/aroundthelab/2011/Apr/041411_heaf.html
Filmmakers Crash Boeing 727 For Scientific Experiment
By Emory
The Discovery Channel staged a test to find out how to design a plane that's better equipped to handle a crash. NBC's Brian Williams reports.
http://overheadbin.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/30/11471765-filmmakers-crash-boeing-727-for-scientific-experiment?lite
Losing Control Over Sugar
By Emory
Many sodas contain a sweetener called fructose. Scientists have shown how fructose can cause the body to produce excess amounts of insulin, a hormone used to control sugar in the blood.
Credit: Marlith/Wikimedia Commons
Rare Ocelot Photographed Near Sierra Vista
By Luca
A rare ocelot rests comfortably on a limb after being treed by dogs Tuesday in Southern Arizona's Huachuca Mountains.
COURTESY OF ARIZONA GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT
Edheads - The Compound Machine
Learn how forces and simple machines can work together to create The Compound Machine!
http://www.edheads.org/activities/odd_machine/index.shtml
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
The Body Odd-Myth, Busted: You Only Use 10% of Brain
By Emory
Actually, 90 percent of your brain is not just languishing, it turns out.
featurepics.com
featurepics.com
Weather Activities - Temperature Converter - Interactive
http://www.edheads.org/activities/weather/index.shtml
Crash Scene Investigation - Forensic Science - Interactive
http://www.edheads.org/activities/crash_scene/index.shtml
Talk to Yourself? Why You're Not Crazy
By Alex M.
Muttering to yourself can actually improve your cognition, a new study finds.
CREDIT: wavebreakmedia ltd | Shutterstock
CREDIT: wavebreakmedia ltd | Shutterstock
First Private Spaceship Flight to Space Station Announced
By Nick
A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship approaches the International Space Station in this artist's illustration.
CREDIT: SpaceX/NASA
CREDIT: SpaceX/NASA
Tasmanian Tiger Likely Doomed by Genetics
By Emory
The Tasmanian tiger, also known as the thylacine, was hunted to extinction in the early 1900s; the last one died in a Tasmanian zoo in 1936.
Courtesy of The Tasmanian National Museum and Art Gallery
Robot Sensing and Smartphones Help Blind Navigate
By Chloe
See like a robot
(Image: David McLain/Aurora Photos/PlainPictures)
Watson A Game-Changer For Science
By Ben
Left to right: Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek; Ken Jennings, former Jeopardy! champion who in 2004 won a record 74 consecutive games; Watson, or rather his avatar; and Brad Rutter, another former Jeopardy! champion.
Courtesy of Jeopardy Productions, Inc
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
No Frostbite for Dogs
Dogs can fetch and roll over in the snow without fear of frostbite, thanks to the arrangement of blood vessels in their paws.
Credit: Dan Bennett
Hobbits: Our Tiny Cousins
Anthropologist Peter Brown examines the Hobbit fossils.
Credit: Peter Brown
Amazing New Glass Not Only Self-Cleans but Avoids Glare and Fogging
By Emory
Hyungryul Choi and Kyoo-Chul Park / MIT
Thin layers of material are deposited on a surface and then etched away, leaving a surface covered with tiny cones that together prevent reflections and repel water, according to MIT.
Thin layers of material are deposited on a surface and then etched away, leaving a surface covered with tiny cones that together prevent reflections and repel water, according to MIT.
Tiny Shark Has A Superpower: Its Belly Glows
By Cooper
The smalleye pygmy shark is one of the world's tiniest sharks, reaching no longer than 8.7 inches (22 centimeters).
Julien Claes
Polar Bears Older than Thought
By Ava D.
A large male polar bear returns to feed on a fin whale carcass. On land, where bears cannot hunt for seals, food is scarce and polar bears mainly depend on washed up marine mammals for food. Holmiabukta Bay, Northwestern Svalbard, Norway.
CREDIT: Florian Schulz
CREDIT: Florian Schulz
Robotic Sharks Deciphering How the Jaws of the Ocean Swim
By Alex M.
sharkcircling.jpg
treehugger.com
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Gulf Seafood Deformities Alarm Scientists
By Nicholas Song
Eyeless shrimp, from a catch of 400 pounds of eyeless shrimp, said to be caught September 22, 2011, in Barataria Bay, Louisiana [Erika Blumenfeld/Al Jazeera]
Mysterious Particle Found After Decades of Searching
By Nicholas Song
The researchers think they have created majorana fermions, which have identical antiparticles but which don't annihilate each other, at the ends of a nanowire device, shown here with orange balls.
CREDIT: TU Delft
CREDIT: TU Delft
New Low-Cost Rocket Set for Inagural Lift-Off Next Week
By Nicholas Song
Main control room of the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, in the critical start phase of a mission.
http://archive.eurescom.eu/message/messageNov2006/The-European-Space-Agency.asp
How Gravity Messes With Honeybees' Waggle Dance
By Emory Kim
A honeybee mid-waggle dance, communicating the distance and direction to a newfound source of food, water or pollen.
Dr. Roger Schürch
Why Huge Dinosaurs Had Such Tiny Babies
By Emory Kim
Egg-laying may have helped dinosaurs get big, but it didn't help their survival in the end.
Julius Csotonyi
Can You Think Your Way To That Hole-In-One?
By Edie Graber
Bo Van Pelt celebrates his hole-in-one during the final round of the Masters on April 8. New research suggests that golfers may be able to improve their games by believing the hole they're aiming for is larger than it really is.
Andrew Redington/Getty Images
Sea Lions May Be Removed from Endangered Species List
By Ava Dobbs
Easter Steller Sea Lions.
CREDIT: Jamie King, ADFG, July 12, 2007, taken during research conducted by Alaska Department of Fish and Game under NMFS Permit #358-1888.
CREDIT: Jamie King, ADFG, July 12, 2007, taken during research conducted by Alaska Department of Fish and Game under NMFS Permit #358-1888.
Droplet Collisions at 5000fps - YouTube Video
By Alex Mononen
http://www.inspiredwater.org/2010/06/water-drops-in-slow-motion/
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Baboons Display 'Reading' Skills, Study Suggests
Baboon foot hitting a word on the screen to indicate if it is an English word.
(Credit: Image courtesy of CNRS (Délégation Paris Michel-Ange))
Rock-Paper-Scissors: You vs. The Computer - Interactive
By GABRIEL DANCE and TOM JACKSON
Additional Production: XaquÃn G.V. and Paul Lau/The New York Times
Historical game data courtesy of Shawn Bayern
Historical game data courtesy of Shawn Bayern
Toxin Alert: Air Fresheners Pollute the Air with Hormone Disruptors
By Jameson McMullen
Febreze air fresheners. 5 April 2012. Own Work.
Author: KRoock74
Electric Fish Charges up Research on Animal Behavior - Video
Electric eel (Electrophorus electricus). Taken at the New England Aquarium (Boston, MA, December 2006.
Copyright © 2006 Steven G. Johnson and donated to Wikipedia under GFDL and CC-by-SA.
Squeeze Power
The blue glow in the sole of this shoe shows a chemical reaction at work.
Credit: H. T. Baytekin and B. Baytekin
Meat From Scratch
Biologist Mark Post holds a sample of the engineered meat he’s growing in his Dutch lab.
Credit: Reuters
Deep Brain Stimulation - Virtual Brain Surgery - Interactive
Help Dr. Vanessa Mei cut, probe and drill her way to helping her patient cope with a movement disorder through brain surgery!
http://www.edheads.org/activities/brain_stimulation/index.shtml
How The Earth Was Made - Oceans - Video
By Camille Borkowski
"The Blue Marble" photograph of Earth,
taken from Apollo 17
taken from Apollo 17
NASA. Photo taken by either Harrison Schmitt or Ron Evans (of the Apollo 17 crew).
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Helmet Safety Precautions
By Austin Veseliza, Ben Kotzubei, and Johnny Berman
http://web.me.com/bkotzubei/Helmet_Safety_Precautions/Home.html
The Brain Behind the Game
Playing basketball feels physical, but the brain is hard at work too. Here, President Barack Obama works on his game.
Credit: Official White House Photo by Pete Souza
Eggs of Enigmatice Dinosaur in Patagonia Discovered
Reconstruction of Bonapartenykus ultimus.
(Credit: Illustrator: Gabriel Lio)
Born Nice? Peoples' Niceness May Reside in their Genes, Study Finds
It turns out that the milk of human kindness is evoked by something besides mom's good example. Research by psychologists at the University at Buffalo and the University of California, Irvine, has found that at least part of the reason some people are kind and generous is because their genes nudge them toward it.
(Credit: © mangostock / Fotolia)
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