Bats have more to say than you think.
Nature delves into the surprising intricacies of bat language: Bats are noisy creatures, especially in their crowded caves, where they make calls to their neighbours. […]
Month: December 2016
10-4, bot buddy. Robot truckers join the convoy….
Popular Science brings a 1970s science-fiction dream one step closer to reality with news that Uber Freight is ready to put robot truckers on the […]
Science Art: Picea excelsa, Walter Mueller, 1886.
Click to embiggen A spruce tree, for the second day of Christmas. From Dr. Prof. Thomé’s Flora von Deutschland, Oesterreich und der Schweiz, in Wort […]
SONG: “Tiny Reindeer”
SONG: “Tiny Reindeer”. [Download] ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Reindeer are shrinking, because of warmer arctic temperatures ,” Science, 11 Dec 2016, as used in the post […]
World’s largest hedge fund set to replace management with supercomputer.
The Guardian reports on a rational, logical approach to making the big bucks… by evaluating trades (and making hiring and firing decisions) using a custom-built […]
“The Cocktail Party Effect” noise filter is revealed at last.
BBC unveils how exactly our brains are able to turn the garbled sounds of a crowded room into understandable speech: A team measured people’s brain […]
Female doctors’ patients live longer.
Heard this odd bit of medical science on Marketplace this morning. A new study of 1.5 million patients found that those treated by doctors who […]
SONG: “Your Molecular Structure (penitential cover)”
SONG: “Your Molecular Structure (penitential cover)” [Download] . ARTIST: grant (originally by Mose Allison). SOURCE: This song doesn’t have a scientific source; it’s a penitential […]
Science Art: Plate 20. – Skeletons of the cross between the English bulldog and bassethound showing contrast in leg length…, 1941
My old dog was a basset. And now there’s a bulldog in my house. I’m not sure how dogs happen, but they do. This is […]
Sauna for your mental health.
Science Daily goes for a schvitz and a think with the University of Finland, where researchers have found that frequent sauna visits protect men against […]
Reindeer have been shrinking since 1994.
Science reports on a reindeer study that’s been running a lot longer than this Christmas season. Researchers in the Arctic have found that reindeer have […]
Jersey shore (the one in the English Channel) was a prehistoric tourist attraction for *millennia*.
Science Daily looks at the vacation habits of Neanderthals on Jersey: As part of a re-examination of La Cotte de St Brelade and its surrounding […]
Antarctic ice-loss: a 25-year-long look from space.
BBC has, courtesy of the Fall Meeting of American Geophysical Union (AGU), a quarter-century of satellite images of Antarctica showing how the ice is shrinking, […]
Science Art: Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. confers with astronaut nurse Dolores B. O’Hara, 1962
Click to embiggen Astronaut and astronaut nurse, getting ready to stick another metaphorical toe into the metaphorical water of the eternal icy void of space, […]
70-mile-long, 300-foot-wide crack opens in Antarctica.
Not that anything’s trying to get out. No, Live Science wouldn’t want us to panic needlessly over a gigantic crevice yawning wide across shrinking ice-fields […]