You might recognize the Bruker brand from their small animal MRI machines. It’s a decently large company (market cap $3.4B).
They just bought Prairie Technologies, the Madison, WI-based manufacturer of multiphoton microscopes ($11M in 2012 revenue). They’ll…
The magazine Popular Science dates back to 1872. It’s older than Nature (1879), Science (1880), and American Scientist (1913). It was originally an academic journal, before it split into two parts, with the academic portion eventually being absorbed into Science. It’s high quality…
This is perhaps the most exhilarating patent I’ve ever read:
Search for patent 4455333 at this link.
Here’s a excerpt:
When the cookie dough enters the oven, the water in the dough is saturated with sugar and appears to be evenly distributed throughout the dough. As the water temperature…
Apparently kittens can see an optimized Farser-Wilcox optical illusion.
Fraser and Wilcox 1979 (pdf)
Rotating Snakes (pdf)
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INCF’s brain atlases (mouse, macaque, and human) are easy to browse online. The system has been around for several years now, and keeps getting better.
Of course, the Allen Institute also maintains some excellent…
Randall Munroe did an xkcd cartoon a while back where he tried to explain a Saturn V rocket using only the 1000 most common words in English. The resulting work, entitled “Up Goer…
