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Over at Paul Knoepfler's excellent Stem Cell Blog, commenter Robert Geller (@rjgeller) offers some remarkable data about the hiring of a disgraced scientist. Geller queries why Haruko Obokata, the biologist at the center of the "STAP" stem cell scandal, was ever given her job. Obokata is a Research Unit Leader (RUL) at Japan's national Riken Center for Developmental Biology (CDB). It was after bei
Image by Steven James, http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/ Alan Kingstone, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia, had a problem: all humans have their eyes in the middle of their faces, and there’s nothing that Kingstone could do about it. His 12-year-old son, Julian Levy, had the solution: monsters. While some monsters are basically humanoid in shape, others have eyes on their ha
I didn't say much about the last flight of the Space Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour here on the blog (though I did tweet links to some cool pictures, so follow me on Twitter to stay up on that sort of thing) mostly because I knew pictures would be coming in so fast I wouldn't be able to keep up! But then one very special image came along, and I just had to put it here: Endeavour and its 747 ride as see
Thrips are tiny insects, typically just a millimetre in length. Some are barely half that size. If that’s how big the adults are, imagine how small a thrips’ egg must be. Now, consider that there are insects that lay their eggs inside the egg of a thrips. That’s one of them in the image above – the wasp, Megaphragma mymaripenne. It’s pictured next to a Paramecium and an amoeba at the same scale. E
Last week I posted a picture of the fiery re-entry of a Progress re-supply ship as seen by Mike Fossum on board the space station. It was one of several pictures he took, and via Universe Today is a video of the descent of the spacecraft! [embed width="610"]http://youtu.be/L5XG2MmIYT0[/embed] Holy wow! You can see the trail of plasma starting to blow off the main spacecraft just as the video begin
[Update: It looks like the cause of this was a gas bottle exploding, and not a meteorite. See the update for 21:15 UT below).] A deadly explosion and fire occurred in Argentina overnight, reportedly killing one woman and injuring several others. Two homes, a store, and several vehicles were destroyed or damaged. they saw a ball of fire descend from the sky when it happened. Neighbors’ accounts des
[UPDATE: I have posted an article with more info on the earthquake and where you can donate money toward the relief efforts.] Japan suffered a massive earthquake last night, measuring nearly magnitude 9. This is one of the largest quakes in its history, causing widespread and severe damage. Before I say anything else, I'm greatly saddened by the loss of life in Japan, and I'll be donating to disas
It's been a couple of days since the foofooraw involving Betelegeuse, 2012, and media laziness took place. As you may recall, a site in Australia made some dubious connections between 2012 and the red supergiant star Betelgeuse exploding, which you may imagine I took a fairly dim view on. As bad as that was, it got worse when The Huffington Post weighed in, adding their own nonsense to the story,
I swear, I need to trust my instincts. As soon as I saw the article on the news.com.au site desperately trying to link Betelgeuse going supernova with the nonsense about the Mayans and 2012, my gut reaction was to write about it. But no, I figured a minute later, this story would blow over. So to speak. I should've known: instead of going away, it gets picked up by that bastion of antiscience, The
I have, from time to time, made a point that astronomers rarely if ever report UFOs. If UFOs really were buzzing us as much as the media and UFO proponents would have us believe, then astronomers would overwhelmingly report the majority of them: we spend far more time outside looking up than pretty much any other group of people. So why don't we see all these alien spacecraft? I think this is beca
When Was Halley’s Comet Last Seen and Will It Ever Return?
I am very sad to write that Martin Gardner, a skeptical giant and genius by any standard, died today in Tulsa Norman, Oklahoma. Wikipedia has a list of his remarkable achievements. He was a lifelong friend of James Randi, who has written a brief statement at the JREF page. I've heard Randi tell many a tale about him. His love for Martin was worn on his sleeve. [Update (23 May 2010): Richard Dawkin
Deer and Other Hoofed Mammals May Have Horns Because of One Ancient Ancestor
Unsolicited advice, 1: How to get into graduate school Your humble bloggers here at Cosmic Variance have spent quite a bit of accumulated time in academic and research settings -- in fact, my guess is that none of us have spent an entire year away from such a setting since the age of about six or so. That's a lot of accumulated wisdom right there, and it's about time we started sharing it. Since i
Everyone's talking about this Paul Krugman essay on where economics, as a discipline, went wrong. Partly, "going wrong" means the failure to appreciate the risks in our financial system, and the corresponding failure to predict the crash we're currently trying to deal with. But from an insider's perspective, something else has happened: an uneasy consensus between two different approaches to econo
Via my evil twin Richard Wiseman comes one of the best color optical illusions I have ever seen. The original was apparently posted on BuzzhuntAkiyoshi Kitaoka’s incredible optical illusion website You see embedded spirals, right, of green, pinkish-orange, and blue? Incredibly, the green and the blue spirals are the same color. At first I thought Richard was pulling our collective legs, being a tr
The Science Tattoo Emporium continues to thrive, long after I first wondered aloud in August 2007 whether scientists had any cool tattoos of their research hidden under their lab coats. I continue to get photos at a regular rate, and as I post new ones, they continue to get noticed anew by places like Digg and Boing Boing. Initially, I was so stunned by the influx of photos that I posted just abou
Is Ball Lightning Real? The Science Behind Nature’s Strangest Light Show
Information moving through cyberspace travels in tiny packets that hopscotch around the world. Using data from a two-week stretch in April 2005, the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) traced these packets' paths from hub to hub and country to country to capture a snapshot of the worldwide network topology. 1 FLAT EARTH SOCIETY CAIDA's map represents a flattened Earth, with
In Search of Japanese RootsWhere did the ancestors of the modern Japanese come from? The answers is shrouded in a mystery not everyone wants solved. Unearthing the origins of the Japanese is a much harder task than you might guess. Among world powers today, the Japanese are the most distinctive in their culture and environment. The origins of their language are one of the most disputed questions o
Of all the objects in the universe, the human brain is the most complex: There are as many neurons in the brain as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy. So it is no surprise that, despite the glow from recent advances in the science of the brain and mind, we still find ourselves squinting in the dark somewhat. But we are at least beginning to grasp the crucial mysteries of neuroscience and sta
One of science’s most well loved stories is that of Archimedes, fresh from discovering the principle of buoyancy during a bath, running naked through the streets of Syracuse yelling “Eureka!” (“I have found it!”) Unfortunately, the story, told for the first time two centuries after Archimedes’ death, is hogwash. Myths like this one sometimes make it seem that science moves along in a series of epi
Researchers match tooth and bone features to identify Paleolithic adolescent maturation. Here's what they have to say about these ice age teens.
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