This is an animated gif showing a ring singularity or “ringularity” of a spinning black hole. A black hole that doesn’t spin will collapse into […]
SONG: “The Hardest Fact (Considering IMS J2204+0112)” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Science News, 16 Mar 2018, “Astronomers can’t figure out why some black holes […]
SONG: “Titanium” [Download] (penitential cover) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for being late for the February song. (I […]
Outside, that paragon of high-performance science, has some interesting findings from the University of Toronto, where researchers found that caffeine regularly boosts athletic performance – […]
Click to embiggen Funny I should have found this image today, right after discussing Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk (a book bloody and wonderful, […]
Science magazine opens a window on the past with DNA samples from Africa’s oldest cemetery: The origins of the ancient Moroccans, known as the Iberomaurusians […]
Science News has a metaphor for our times playing out in deep space, where we’ve been watching black holes defy expectations by getting much bigger, […]
The Institute for New Economic Thinking has a rather grim look at America’s economic future (and present), courtesy of an M.I.T. economist, Professor Emeritus Peter […]
Science Daily reports on a Yale study that has found that intestinal bacteria can trigger autoimmune responses (like those in lupus) – and targeting those […]
Click to embiggen Early electronics: a cell for isolating minute quantities of heavy metals, apparently by zapping a drop of a solution under a powerful […]
Science News looks over data from the Juno space probe and marvels at some of the strange things that are being revealed about the giant […]
Nature pulls back the veil on those smudges seen on Egyptian mummies on display for more than a century – that, it turns out, are […]
Science Daily reveals a genuine lost colony… of penguins. Revealed by satellite photos of their poop. Yes, there’s a previously unknown supercolony of 1.5 million […]
Click to embiggen Big birds haven’t changed too much since 1931. These are: Anseranas semipalmata Pelecanus conspicillatus Casuarius casuarius Cereopsis novaehollandiae Ardeotis australis Grus rubicunda […]
NLTimes.nl reports on Dutch public-works diggers who found a trove of treasure – not just scientific treasure, but a literal pot of 15th-century gold coins […]
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