Thanks, NASA ! (More at the link.)

. . . always pushing the tech envelope. (Thanks, Ben!) The comments on YouTube are worth a look.

The still at right is from Mar. 21, 2012. Here 's a real-time animation of the wind as of right now .

"The sun erupted with one of the largest solar flares of this solar cycle on March 6, 2012 at 7PM EST. This flare was categorized as an...

I'm enjoying Walter Isaacson's eponymous biography of Steve Jobs . One thing it lacks that Jobs might have appreciated: an illustra...

"Erica Chenoweth has developed a dataset and analyzed the historical record. Below the fold are slides summarizing the results of her s...

Via Oddity Central (thanks Ben!)

Can't resist re-blogging this. Via Boing Boing (thanks, Ben!)

As explained in a 2009 post and by others before me, "insect-resistent" GM plants have in fact been engineered to produce food th...

Time lapse sequences of photographs taken with a special low-light 4K-camera by the crew of expedition 28 & 29 onboard the International...

Benoît Mandelbrot, inventor of fractal geometry – the branch of mathematics that describes the hidden order in nature and in seemingly chaot...

First built in 1934, Buckminster Fuller 's aerodynamically efficient vehicle could transport 11 passengers at 36 mpg. Norman Foster , wh...

By Chris Abbas , using NASA footage.  (Thanks, JP!)

"The 'necomimi' . . . hair band . . . features sensors that pick up on brain signals and convert them into visible actions . . ...

(Gif below right from EURAD .)

On Wed., March 9, at 5:23 pm CST, a Class X1.5 solar flare erupted, "one of the most powerful types of flares," "letting loos...

Four years ago, Harvard scientists devised a way to make mouse neurons glow in a breathtaking array of colors, a technique dubbed “Brainbow....

Lawrence Lessig has a new article at Foreign Policy summarizing important factors behind the explosive growth of the Internet, and the im...

Exhibition Jan. 14 - 21. (Left, Pump Skin series, #1 . Pig and human skin, Animas Ping insulin pump (2010).)