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By sciencebase, Section News Posted on Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 03:14:49 AM PST
Pain is the body's way of getting your attention when something is wrong. Pain can be bothersome or serious and many of us think we're in tune with our bodies sufficiently to know when to act. But when pain is signaling something more serious it's time to get it checked out.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) inventor, engineer, architect, mathematician, geologist, and astronomer, he is most famous for his works of art like the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper. Though best known as a painter, Leonardo primarily worked for the military, producing designs of airplanes, tanks and submarines, long before such war-machines were created. He is also famous for his sketches of the muscles & bones in the human body and also discovered how sedimentary rocks and fossils form.
Magnetic fields can be hard to understand or characterize. Two natural means of visualization are the aurora and the Sun's corona. In the laboratory, Michael Snyder and Jonathan Frederick of Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky, have explored a novel way to visualize fields. They start with a Hele-Shaw cell, comprising two parallel glass plates with the narrow gap between them filled with a ferrofluid--a colloidal dispersion of 10nm ferromagnetic particles.
Welcome to the first SciScoop Art Meets Science posting. You can submit your science-inspired art or images from art-inspired science right here, right now. In this first edition, artist Randall Kopping, who suggested the idea of an art meets science section for the site, shows us his cosmic view of the birth of a galaxy. If you'd like to post your own artwork on SciScoop please follow the instructions here
By sciencebase, Section News Posted on Wed Mar 12, 2008 at 09:00:32 AM PST
Writing in the open access journal Plos Computational Biology, Morgan C. Giddings of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, offers fellow scientists his seven top tips for becoming a great scientist. Follow these to the letter and you can start packing your bags for Sweden rightaway.
By sciencebase, Section News Posted on Mon Mar 10, 2008 at 02:12:05 AM PST
Researchers have determined the structure of a receptor in the brain thought to be involved in conditions as diverse as epilepsy and pre-menstrual syndrome. The same receptor has even been linked to alcohol sensitivity.