Woo-ha! Ain't science something?

[diesel_powered]

That pretty much describes the life I aspire to.

[Antero]

"The mice behaved nicely," Breitbart reports, "they ate and had sex; they were laughing, and everything, so all I can say is that we couldn't see any behavioral side-effects

The mice were laughing and you couldn't see any behavioral side-effects?

I need to get me some of these laughing mice, they sound awesome.

[Greg Nog]

In Israel, mouse laugh at you!

[mountmccabe]

I am scared that the dude's name is Breitbart. Is blucas gonna make fun of him?

[jess]

Pet seal robot:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/05/science/05robot.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

[Nick Ink]

Giant clouds of interstellar gas and dust light up this panoramic view of the sky recorded by the European Space Agency's Planck telescope.

The space telescope was launched in May last year on a mission to survey the "cosmic microwave background" – ancient light left over from the big bang.

The bright streak across the middle of the picture is our own galaxy, the Milky Way, viewed edge-on. The intense light comes not from stars but from the radiation released by the dust and gas clouds that stretch between them.

The blue and white wisps that reach above and below our own galaxy are streamers of cold dust that trace out the "galactic web" where new stars are born.

The speckles at the top and bottom of the image are caused by microwave background radiation, the remnants of the first light that appeared 380,000 years after the big bang flung the universe into being 13.7bn years ago.

The Planck telescope observes the sky in nine wavelengths from the microwave to the vary-far-infrared region of the spectrum. This image is a composite of pictures taken at several different wavelengths.

Planck telescope sends back a postcard of the Universe

[peacocks]

woooow

[jm]

I spent so much time yesterday at a neighborhood deli trying to explain to the guy behind the counter that the ovoid shape in the center isn't the whole universe, that the telescope didn't, you know, exit the universe, back up and frame the it against a black background before it took the shot.  Eventually I gave up and let him go on about his theory that the universe was an egg full of light.  Which, you know, is not so bad, really.

[G.C.R]

Pet seal robot:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/05/science/05robot.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

This was a fascinating article, thanks, Jess!

[FreddyKnuckles]

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-07/seasoning-feedstocks-curry-spices-cuts-methane-emissions-livestock-40

[clare]

Freddy, your link is borken.

[coldforge]

Ever since recently having watched some British panel television, I am currently stuck pronouncing that word 'MEE-thane.' Methane! Me-thane!

[clare]

Yeah, and?   :-)

[elpollodiablo]

Al-oo-min-e-um!

[clare]

Check.

[milesofsparks]

NYC needs you to bee a Citizen Scientist for the Great Pollinator Project:
http://greatpollinatorproject.org/

a handy guide to bees, and things that look like bees but aren't!
http://greatpollinatorproject.org/sites/all/downloads/pdfs/BeeCategories.pdf

[jm]

oh man I love bees!

[Ignatius]

A sparrow was flying around me with a half-alive cicada in his mouth, still buzzing. And for a second I thought it was the largest, most crazy bee ever. It was more like a bird-motor machine, though.

[diesel_powered]

Researchers claim to have found the first evidence of 'zombie' ants in the fossil record.

[Nick Ink]

Some incredible images from the Nikon Small World Photography Competition


Zebrafish olfactory bulbs (250x)


Red seaweed (40x)


Flea (20x)


Crystallized soy sauce (16x)

[Nick Ink]

And this is what cancer cells look like...

[ellaguru]

Cancer looks kinda Christmasy.

[kyle]

Some incredible images from the Nikon Small World Photography Competition

So many album covers.

[peacocks]

I think I wanna be cancer for halloween now

[peacocks]

and I can be sexy cancer if I wear red fishnets