Editor’s Selections: The Brain-City Metaphor, No Cosmic Ray Climate Connection, Epoxy Artery Fixes, And Tornadoes from Hurricanes.
September 5th, 2011 Editor's Selections 34 Comments
Sarah Kendrew selects interesting and notable ResearchBlogging.org posts in the physical sciences, chemistry, engineering, computer science, geosciences and mathematics. She blogs about astronomy at One Small Step.
Welcome to another Monday. Some excellent posts on ResearchBlogging this week; here are a few favourites from the physical sciences sections.
Thoughtful Animal Jason Goldman describes some fascinating research into the commonality of scaling laws between cities and our brains, addressing the question of how engineering is inspired by biology.
Last week, a paper published by CERN scientists examined the potential impact of cosmic rays on cloud formation, and hence global warming. Joel at Moth Eyes does a nice job at looking at the actual science in the research, as opposed to many media interpretations of it, which shows no significant effects.
Surgery never fails to amaze me. That’s Basic Science this week features a post describing a new epoxy developed at Stanford for mending damaged arteries.
It’s been quite the year for natural disasters, and storms continue to cause chaos across the continents. Paige Brown takes a peak inside storms and describes how the structure of hurricanes can spawn tornadoes.
Thanks for the great posts, and I’ll be back next week with more picks.
