American sharks are recovering (in the Atlantic, at least).
Eurekalert has good news from the southeastern Atlantic. Shark populations are getting back to where they should be for a healthy ocean: Scientists estimate that […]
Month: February 2017
Is this one, long neuron where consciousness comes from?
Nature reports on the discovery of a single, brain-encircling “crown of thorns” neuron that might be the seat of consciousness: Christof Koch, president of the […]
Science Art: Dinner in the Mould of the Iguanodon, by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, 1854.
A paleontological dinner party, as drawn by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, the sculptor who also made the dining accommodations – an Iguanodon. Nowadays, we know (or […]
SONG: Glassy Carbon Rods
SONG: “Glassy Carbon Rods [Download] .” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Big improvement to brain-computer interface,” Science Daily, 17 Feb 2017, as used in the post “Brain-electronics just […]
Hidden labyrinths in Denmark, dating back to the Stone Age.
Science Nordic reports on the mysteries of enormous Stone-Age circles found in Denmark: One of the latest additions is a huge construction, discovered by archaeologists […]
Science Art: Veins in the Region of the Temple, 1875
A profile of a profile, from Studies in the Facial Region by Harrison Allen. [via nemfrog]
Brain-electronics just got better
Science Daily reports on “glassy carbon electrodes,” a breakthrough in the interfaces that connect computers to our brains: The Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE) […]
MRI scan predicts autism with 80% accuracy.
Science Daily looks at the brains of infants to see which ones have an overgrowth of the brain’s surface, which is to say, which ones […]
Ancient pottery reveals the past of Earth’s magnetic field.
NPR has more on how potters inadvertently preserved a record of Earth’s magnetic field 3,000 years ago: About 3,000 years ago, a potter near Jerusalem […]
Science Art: The Albatross Dredging, 1883.
This is the science vessel Albatross, a steamship custom-built for the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, what’s now the NOAA National Marine Fisheries […]
Our first breath of air, analyzed 2.3 billion years later.
Science Daily peeks into the deep, deep history of the “Great Oxidation Event,” analyzing a very old sample of some of the first oxygen to […]
This origami microscope costs less than a dollar – and you can magnify stuff by 2,000 times.
Popular Science shows us how to make a cheap paper microscope that really works: In the Foldscope, invented by Stanford University engineers, creased paper creates […]
Radiation clouds may sicken jet travelers.
New Scientist puts the seat backs in the full upright position with the news that there are weird “radioactive zones” in the sky our planes […]
Science Art: Cultures of a destructive mold called Phomopsis, by USDA-ARS
Click to embiggen Might look pretty in a dish, but you don’t want to find this on your crops – it’s bad news. This image, […]
Bad gut bacteria can cause high blood pressure.
Sure, it might be the salty food, but Science Daily says, based on work by the American Physiological Society, that the microbes in your intestines […]