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  • You be the judge... [Zooillogix]

    "Scientists" tell us that the tarsier is the only member of its lonely family Tarsiidae, which itself is the lone extant family within the infraorder Tarsiiformes... We here at Zooillogix think they might be more closely related to other species than zoologists think... Pygmy tarsier vs. Furby...
    Posted to Biology by Anonymous on 11-20-2008

  • Seed's Daily Zeitgeist: 11/18/2008

    Bark Beetles Kill Millions of Acres of Trees in West It's hard to visualize deforestation going on without chainsaws and bulldozers, but these nefarious beetles do a pretty devastating job. Scientists Self-Censor After Political Attack Though no change was enacted, simply creating a political scene...
    Posted to General Science by Anonymous on 11-18-2008

  • Seed's Daily Zeitgeist: 11/10/2008

    The Origins of Progress Kevin Kelly questions what drives progress in order to find out what our world will look like in the not-so-distant future. The Climate for Change Lame puns excused, Al Gore lays out what we need to do to get the USA and, more importantly, the planet back on track. The Art of...
    Posted to General Science by Anonymous on 11-10-2008

  • Seed's Daily Zeitgeist: 11/5/2008

    Healthy mice cloned from frozen bodies One small step for mice, one giant step for a future full of woolly mammoths. Massive waves a mystery at Maine harbor Scientists don't even have a name for these mysterious waves that flooded harbors in Maine. An Arachnological Guide to the Spiders From Mars...
    Posted to General Science by Anonymous on 11-05-2008

  • Assessing Bush Science Advisor’s defense of science funding

    As the Bush administration winds down, John Marburger, the Presidential Science Advisor, has penned an editorial arguing that science did quite well over the past eight years. Why do scientists view things otherwise? Read More...
    Posted to Software by Anonymous on 11-04-2008

  • Nanotube Speaker Film: Transparent, Stretchy, Likes Moldovan Pop [Nanotechnology]

    Scientists at Tsinghua University in Beijing have just perfected a process by which nanotubes can be coaxed to emit sound, allowing for the construction of ultra-thin, transparent, flexible...
    Posted to Gadgets by Anonymous on 11-03-2008

  • The Race to Save the World's Rarest Bird: The Discovery and Death of the Po'ouli [Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)]

    tags: po'ouli , Melamprosops phaeosoma , endangered species , endangered species act , conservation , extinction , birds , island species , Hawai'i , book review For scientists, naturalists and birders, islands are the most amazing places on earth because their evolutionary legacy has provided...
    Posted to Biology by Anonymous on 10-26-2008

  • Hubble Repairs Hindered By Antiquated Computer Systems

    Andrew Moseman writes "Part of the trouble NASA is encountering while fixing the Hubble Space Telescope comes from the fact that it's been up there for nearly two decades, and therefore carries computer systems long outdated here on Earth. 'One of the main computers that the Goddard team...
    Posted to Hardware by Anonymous on 10-24-2008

  • Storing Qubits In Nuclei

    bednarz writes "Scientists have demonstrated what is being called the 'ultimate miniaturization of computer memory,' storing data for nearly two seconds in the nucleus of an atom of phosphorus. The hybrid quantum memory technique is a key step in the development of quantum computers, according...
    Posted to Hardware by Anonymous on 10-24-2008

  • Hydrogen-Producing Bacteria Could Provide Clean Energy

    Iddo Genuth writes "Scientists at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and North Carolina State University (NC State) have developed cooperatively a new 'green' technology which could lead to clean production of hydrogen from nitrogen-fixing bacteria." Read more of this story at...
    Posted to Hardware by Anonymous on 10-23-2008
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