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< previous image | next image >> We admit it. Spiders have become an obsession at Wired Science. It started in September when we reported on a spider-milking machine that was built to extract silk from a million golden orb-weavers, two dozen at a time, to make a 44-square foot cloth. After that, we were hooked, [...]
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Here are two galleries for you, both of photos taken from space. One is of islands here on Earth, the other of landscapes on Mars. It's amazing, the similarities between the two places when you look from a certain distance. [ Wired Science and Big Picture ]
Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
From Wired Science: Islands are some of the most beautiful, peaceful, violent, desolate and unique places on Earth. While experiencing a tropical island from its sandy beaches, or a volcanic island from its towering peaks is wonderful, experiencing them from above can be inspiring as well. We’ve collected images taken by astronauts and satellites from space of some of the most interesting islands...
Sentient Developments (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
From the four corners of the web: Toward a meaningful definition of posthuman sentience | Machines Like Us As we get closer and closer to developing artificial general intelligence, I feel it is necessary to highlight an important limitation of our anthropocentric perspective. While we sometimes have the capacity to treat other species of life in humane ways, we often stumble when it comes to categorizing...
Biosingularity (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
By forcing bacteria to evolve in ever-changing conditions, scientists have induced a behavior in which colonies formed by microbes with identical genes take radically different forms, as if one sibling in a set of identical quadruplets could sprout gills. Technically known as “stochastic switching between phenotypic states” — or, more conversationally, hedging your bets — the...
Sentient Developments (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
From the four corners of the web: The Next Hacking Frontier: Your Brain? | Wired Science Hackers who commandeer your computer are bad enough. Now scientists worry that someday, they'll try to take over your brain. What's your place in the brave new future? - Times Online Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, it was easy enough to track down Paul Saffo, Silicon Valley's favourite futurologist....
Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
From Wired Science: This stunning image of the Kappis Crucis Cluster, nicknamed the “Jewel Box,” was one of the last gifts from a retiring camera on the Hubble Space Telescope. Just before NASA brought the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 back to Earth in mid-2009, it snapped this photo of the core of the NGC 4755 star cluster, the first comprehensive image of an open galactic cluster taken...
Wired Science (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
We have been amazed by the astrophotos our readers and followers have been sharing with us. So to facilitate our ongoing amazement, and in keeping with our belief that there can never be too many space photos, we have created a new Flickr group for you to upload your favorite shots. We’ll run the best [...]
TYWKIWDBI (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
With nothing more than beads in a glass box, physicists have revealed yet another mysterious property of granular solids, now recognized by scientists as a unique state of matter, like solids or gases... But when they filled the box nearly to the top — which, they expected, would cause the beads to clog — the beads instead moved in graceful, swirling currents. Found at Wired Science , where...
Opinion Dominion (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Climate Change Caused Radical North Sea Shift | Wired Science | Wired.com Quite an interesting report in Wired about long term changes in the ecology of the North Sea. It's all about less fish and more crabs and jellyfish. Sure, overfishing has played a large part, but a slight change in temperature seems to have also caused significant changes in the plankton mix. I didn't realise the North Sea had...
Snarkmarket (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Alexis Madrigal has a great piece about warehouse robots over at Wired Science. Here’s a nuance I would not have predicted: The system adjusts to the nature of the products and workers, too. In a typical [robot warehouse], the humans are placed around the edges of the room. As the robots pick up loads of products [...]
Biosingularity (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
To survive in hostile environments, cockroaches rely on their own vermin: Blattabacterium, a microbe that hitched a ride inside roaches 140 million years ago, and hasn’t left since. Researchers who sequenced the Blattabacterium genome have found that it converts waste into molecules necessary for a roach to survive. Every cockroach is a testimony to the power [...]
USA Shopping Online @ 2dayplaza.com (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Cosmetic surgeons are again warning women of the risks inherent to using do-it-yourself beauty kits, with lasers for hair removal in particular. There is absolutely no chance such kits would return the same results as the machines used in specialized clinics, while women also have to think that they might actually be putting themselves at risk, surgeon Barry DiBernardo tells Wired Science, following...
Blog of Leonid Mamchenkov (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Wired Science runs a post linking to tonnes of fascinating photographs done through a microscope lens. Little things cropped and magnified look like matters from the other planets. And only the best of the best of the best are selected… Tags: microscope, nature, science
Wired Science (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Can there ever be too many space photos? Here at Wired Science, we believe the answer is no, there can never be too many, or even enough, space photos. And now NASA is aiding our addiction by putting its huge collection of mind-blowing space photos in our pockets. The new NASA iPhone app means that even [...]
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