Rosetta’s last kiss.
Reuters waxes poetic with their description of ESA’s Rosetta space probe giving comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko one “final kiss” before crash landing near the … Read the rest “Rosetta’s last kiss.”
Month: June 2016
They’ve just about got a vaccine for Zika.
Science Daily reports on a pretty quick turnaround for a health crisis:
… Read the rest “They’ve just about got a vaccine for Zika.”In a paper published today in the journal Nature, a research team led by scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Making batteries from seafood leftovers.
Hakai magazine explains how we can turn crab and lobster shells into batteries, plastics and (maybe) scaffolds for growing new organs:
… Read the rest “Making batteries from seafood leftovers.”[Mark] MacLachlan [of the University of British
Science Art: Theoria Satellitum Iovis et Saturni from Atlas Coelestis by Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, 1742.
A geometry of the heavens (specifically the moons of Jupiter and Saturn0, as envisioned by mathematician, astronomer, and mapmaker Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, a German who also spoke … Read the rest “Science Art: Theoria Satellitum Iovis et Saturni from Atlas Coelestis by Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, 1742.”
SONG: “Electric Wind”
SONG: “Electric Wind”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “Water on Venus was stripped away by ‘electric wind’,” Wired, 21 June 2016, as used in the post “… Read the rest “SONG: “Electric Wind””
Microbes that feed on electricity
Quanta Magazine introduces us to little creatures that use electricity as food:
… Read the rest “Microbes that feed on electricity”The electricity-eating microbes that the researchers were hunting for belong to a larger class of organisms
The electric wind left Venus without water or air.
Wired has more on how Venus was left a waterless desert due to the “wind” of charged particles from the Sun:
… Read the rest “The electric wind left Venus without water or air.”Venus is one of the most Earth-like planets in our solar system in terms
3D printers make a methane-eating plastic… that excretes fuel.
Science Daily has more on the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers who have 3D-printed a polymer that turns methane to methanol:
… Read the rest “3D printers make a methane-eating plastic… that excretes fuel.”Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Science Art: Philips H7 headlamp . Mo-cover filament polycrystals, by Ivan.V.Nemtsev
This is the filament of a headlight – a halogen bulb you put in the front end of your car, one of these – as seen many times its proper size under an electron microscope.
Tiny little… Read the rest “Science Art: Philips H7 headlamp . Mo-cover filament polycrystals, by Ivan.V.Nemtsev”
Team Rainbow Power finds Denmark’s largest trove of Viking gold.
Denmark’s The Local reports on three plucky archaeologists who (apparently) have made a historic find of Viking treasure in Jutland:
… Read the rest “Team Rainbow Power finds Denmark’s largest trove of Viking gold.”The three archaeologists, who call themselves
Eastern cougar: Extinct, officially.
The CBC – and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service – are confirming what scientists have suspected for a long time… that the Eastern cougar subspecies can be taken off the… Read the rest “Eastern cougar: Extinct, officially.”
France – *France* – will save us all from the next killer asteroid.
Oh, yes. Nature tries to downplay it, but it’s the French who have launched an unprecedented meteor-spotting network to scan the skies:
… Read the rest “France – *France* – will save us all from the next killer asteroid.”By the end of this year, some 100 cameras will
Lasers find lost Cambodian empire
Guardian reports on multiple medieval Cambodian cities that had been forgotten – evidence of an entire lost empire just discovered via LIDAR scans:
… Read the rest “Lasers find lost Cambodian empire”The Australian archaeologist
Science Art: An early map of the planet Mars, by Richard A. Proctor, 1867.
A map of the planet Mars by astronomer Richard A. Proctor. The names we use for features on Mars nowadays come from Giovanni Schiaparelli – like what we call “Syrtis Major Planum,”… Read the rest “Science Art: An early map of the planet Mars, by Richard A. Proctor, 1867.”
Listening to the music of the oldest stars.
Sci-News turns an ear to the heavens to learn about the oldest stars in the Milky Way – by listening to their acoustic oscillations:
… Read the rest “Listening to the music of the oldest stars.”The team, led by Dr. Andrea Miglio from the University