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Month: November 2015

Ice Volcanoes of Pluto!

10 November 2015 grant 0

Nature reports that the New Horizons probe has snapped photos of cratered mountains that bear the hallmarks of volcanoes that erupt with ice, rather than lava:

The images show two mountains

… Read the rest “Ice Volcanoes of Pluto!”

Global warming might make the fish jump.

9 November 2015 grant 0

Nature World News reports on a little mangrove-estuary dwelling fish that adapts to warmer waters by jumping into the air to cool down:

In humid heat in tropical mangroves, tiny rivulus

… Read the rest “Global warming might make the fish jump.”

Science Art: Chemical Laboratory room. Experimental Research labs, Burroughs Wellcome and Co. Tuckahoe, New York

8 November 2015 grant 0

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Welcome to Wellcome.

They’ve got all kinds of wonderful things in their image gallery, including this marvelous experimenter in an even more marvelous experimental… Read the rest “Science Art: Chemical Laboratory room. Experimental Research labs, Burroughs Wellcome and Co. Tuckahoe, New York”

It’s a little reading robot for the whole wide internet.

5 November 2015 grant 0

New Scientist looks at the AI that’s been assigned the unenviable task of reading every scientific paper online and finding the important ones:

Semantic Scholar, which launches

… Read the rest “It’s a little reading robot for the whole wide internet.”

DIY Internet: How Orca Island, WA, became their own provider.

4 November 2015 grant 0

Ars Technica has an inspirational story of some folks who decided they could do a better job than their “professional” ISP:

Around that time, CenturyLink service went out

… Read the rest “DIY Internet: How Orca Island, WA, became their own provider.”

Super-healthy tomatoes showcase genetic meddling’s sunny side.

3 November 2015 grant 0

Scientific American celebrates a bumper crop of super-healthy tomatoes, thanks to genetic modification:

A single tomato of the new variety contains the same amount of resveratrol as

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Everything you know about low-fat dieting is wrong.

2 November 2015 grant 0

Nature reveals that low-fat diets don’t really help you lose weight:

An analysis of 53 weight-loss studies that included more than 68,000 people has concluded that, despite their

… Read the rest “Everything you know about low-fat dieting is wrong.”

Science Art: Idolo de ignota localidad, Idolo de Arica, Idolo de ignota localidad.

1 November 2015 grant 0

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Three idols, from the Anales del Museo Nacional de Chile, published between 1892 and 1910.

I found them in the Biodiversity Heritage Library, which is usually full of … Read the rest “Science Art: Idolo de ignota localidad, Idolo de Arica, Idolo de ignota localidad.”

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