Another jar opening octopus; image courtesy of Flickr/David Davies It isn’t every day in the ocean that an octopus comes across a jar to open–especially one that contains a tasty live... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Those of you familiar with my blog here at SciAm will know that I’m a little obsessed with science-themed music videos. When I saw the ‘Wrecking Ball’ masterpiece of Ms. Miley I... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Those of you familiar with my blog here at SciAm will know that I’m a little obsessed with science-themed music videos. When I saw the ‘Wrecking Ball’ masterpiece of Ms. Miley I... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Vaclav Smil (Image: Wikipedia Commons) That’s Vaclav Smil, the prolific University of Manitoba thinker writing in this month’s issue of Scientific American . When Smil says something... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
After his 1902 trip to Yemen, scholar and naturalist Wilhelm Hein returned with a variety of plants and animals, which he donated to the Vienna Museum. One of these specimens, a shark, sat unnoticed... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Teas made from variously fermented leaves. Left to right: Green, yellow, oolong, and black. Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Click for source. When you take a sip of red wine or black tea,... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Arborimus longicaudus, based on a photo in Nowak (1999). Image by Darren Naish, colouring by Gareth Monger. CC BY. As a European person, I find European voles (and, to a degree, Asian voles) pretty... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
P-glycoprotein (PgP): A combination of vacuum cleaner and high-powered pump that is designed to eject drug molecules out of the cell( Image: Wikipedia Commons) This is part 3 of a series of posts... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com