An image from an ad from the Jan/Feb 1974 issue of the Journal for the Society for Informational Display.
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The b…
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Read moreFifty-two breeds of chickens!
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Read moreNPR shared the story of Lazarus Kgasi, who started as a laborer but fell in love with the science — and is now helping shape what we know of life’s origins:
… Read the rest “Black South African digger becomes paleontology star”This is the story of how
An image from an ad from the Jan/Feb 1974 issue of the Journal for the Society for Informational Display.
The edition is pretty light on scientific illustrations and pretty heavy on flowcharts… Read the rest “Science Art: Cathode Ray Tubes, 1974”
Science reports on a discovery researchers are putting up there with GLP-1 anti-obesity drugs. In this case, snakes can survive long, and foodless, periods of hibernation by getting rid… Read the rest “Snakes can fast because they got rid of a hormone.”
A University of Pennsylvania grad researcher has found that teenagers who smoke tobacco are at higher risk for addiction to morphine, heroin, or fentanyl, because early nicotine exposure… Read the rest “Teenage cigarettes lead to grown-up opioid trouble.”
Is it strange how much this resembles a 1950s comic-book cover about dashing flying saucer pilots? And we made it real, and we sent it to space piloted by remote control computers with a crew… Read the rest “Science Art: Curiosity Approaching Mars, Artist’s Concept, 2012”
Sci Tech Daily investigates a new treatment for arthritis that can not just stop joint damage but actually reverse it by blocking chemicals associated with aging … even in young patients… Read the rest “Age-blocking injection rebuilds knee cartilage.”
Well, good at living a long time, at least. Nature reports on a study that finds about 55 percent of the factors that grant a long life come from your inherited DNA:
… Read the rest “Long life really can come down to good ancestors.”The findings should aid in
Science Adviser reports on the discovery (or rediscovery) of a fossil that is not just a new species, not just a new class, order, nor phylum of life. It’s so different from animals,… Read the rest “Fossil reveals new *kingdom* of life.”
This is a poster from the WPA urging people to save their own lives … by getting tested for a sexually transmitted disease. The geometry of the diagram in the center — the circle… Read the rest “Science Art: Don’t wait – 70% are doomed, c. 1936”
SONG: “Social Prosthetic”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Why Did Jeffrey Epstein Cultivate Famous Scientists?”, Scientific American… Read the rest “SONG: Social Prosthetic”
Scientific American has a rather deeply researched piece on something that feels like it’s about politics at first, since it’s following the donations of a disgraced late… Read the rest “Why did Jeffrey Epstein “collect” so many scientists?”
This is a light experiment from the 1600s, which I found in the British Library archive over yonder.
The book, Les raisons des forces &c was written by Salomon de Caus. You can find it … Read the rest “Science Art: From Les raisons des forces mouuantes, etc., 1615.”
Nature reports on materials engineers stealing the secrets of octopus skin to create substances that can change color and texture on demand:
… Read the rest “Wearing octopus camouflage”Very small sub-micrometre bumps or grooves,
Science recently covered some breakthroughs in building robots that measure less than a millimeter square, but can sense surroundings, carry out commands, make calculations, and respond… Read the rest “Robots the size of microbes.”
This is an ad from the April 1917 edition of Hugo Gernsback’s The Electrical Experimenter, which you can read on archive.org here.
I can only assume this is an early blacklight bulb… Read the rest “Science Art: Violet-Rays!, 1917”
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