Scientific American has some suggestions for your self-isolation. There are a few ways you can help researchers out without ever leaving home: “I think where […]
Scientific American has more on how some astronomers are using the ocean itself to scan the skies: Suspended near the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea […]
Click to embiggen The so-called “Siberian unicorn,” the Elasmotherium, a noble critter here pictured in the pages of Evolution of the Past, by Henry R. […]
Science News shares 10 years of step-counting longevity research that indicates that slow, steady, and not stopping is the way to win the race – […]
New Scientist has some uplifting news about the ozone hole. It’s fixing itself at last, and as it does so, the planet’s wind patterns are […]
You know, I went looking for some non-coronavirus science news, and Nature provided this gem of a headline about a plucky Drosophilia fruit-fly species and […]
Science News reports that astronomers have found the dark edge of the Milky Way – the unlit mass of dark matter spinning beyond the bright […]
Click to embiggen From 1675 until his death in 1719, John Flamsteed worked at the newly built Greenwich Observatory, charting the stars in the sky. […]
Science News checks back on the big star that suddenly went dim (as regular readers here will remember) a couple of months ago, prompting some […]
The Guardian looks back at memory researchers who’ve found that lower the carbohydrates you eat keeps your memory in better shape: “Neurobiological changes associated with […]
Click to embiggen From Wedding’s Basic Bessemer Process, by W. B. Phillips and E. Prochaska, which you can preview here. I found it on the […]
Science News reports on the discovery of the smallest known dinosaur in a Myanmar gemstone – and it was a tiny predator: A tiny, toothed […]
Or something like that. Scientific American looks at how Shi Zhengli’s kind of obscure area zoological research – looking at how bats contract viral diseases […]
Scientific American looks at old trees to determine how so-called hunter-gatherers were actually actively “farming” the Brazil nuts and cocoa trees they relied on for […]
Rather than the usual excerpt of recent research, I thought I’d start collecting some decent sources of info on the ongoing pandemic. * Vetted and […]
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