FDA approves anti-addiction implant
PopSci reports on the upper-arm implant that oozes buprenorphine, a drug that suppresses withdrawal symptoms and cuts the craving for opioid addicts: Called Probuphine, the […]
Month: May 2016
Science Art: Minecraft Colosseum replica (Amphitheatrum Flavium)
Click to play One of the more interesting trends in scientific illustration lately – and I do think that it’s exactly the same kind of […]
Puzzling out Neanderthal architecture.
Nature looks at some strange things Neanderthals built for… reasons… inside their cave homes: Neanderthals built one of the world’s oldest constructions — 176,000-year-old semicircular […]
Polar bears and grizzlies are making global-warming babies.
Washington Post has us – well, not exactly preparing for the end of the world, but definitely on our guard. When polar bears start mating […]
SONG: Everything Appears to be in Order
SONG: “Everything Appears to be in Order”. [Download] ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “AI Pioneer ROSS Intelligence Lands Its First Big Law Clients,” The American Lawyer, 6 […]
Science Art: Saturn F-1 Engine, 1964
Our first ticket off this rock. Saturn F-1 Engine is tested at the Marshall Center in 1964. Image credit: NASA/MSFC
You swallow this pork origami robot, see… no, really.
Washington Post reports on a swallowable, unfolding robot for retrieving the little batteries that little kids swallow: Across the United States, a child swallows a […]
Water on Mars? TSUNAMIS ON MARS!
Nature goes EXXXTREEEEME!!! in the search for evidence of water on Mars. And boy did they find evidence. Seems like a couple billion years ago, […]
Magic mushrooms against chronic depression.
Nature reports on the first safety study, published in The Lancet, of psilocybin mushrooms as a potent therapy for drug-resistant long-term depression: Researchers from Imperial […]
Science Art: Buffon’s Natural History, Taf. 7,
Two rays and a shark… and an egg case… from Buffon’s Natural History of the globe, and of man; beasts, birds, fishes, reptiles, and insects, […]
First firm to hire a virtual attorney. It’ll be handling bankruptcies….
The American Lawyer reports on Ross, the newest legal mind to join Baker & Hostetler – despite being an artificial intelligence programmed to analyze bankruptcy […]
…or maybe not.
From the Facebook desk of archaeologist Katie Rask (seconded by others) comes the following correction: From the world renowned Maya specialist and Linda Schele Professor […]
So, a 15-year-old just discovered a Mayan city… without leaving home.
All kinds of news outlets have picked up this Le Journal de Montreal story on William Gadoury, a teenager who noticed that Mayan constellations lined […]
Science Art: Diagram of Meteorology, James Reynolds and John Emslie.
Click to embiggen vastly Are we in for weather? Yes, always. Good or bad, there’s always some kind of weather. What kind? This diagram will […]
David Attenborough… and Subby McSubface
BBC has the final outcome of the Boaty McBoatface saga – the research vessel will be named after documentarist Sir David Attenborough, but will have […]