Eurekalert has good news from the southeastern Atlantic. Shark populations are getting back to where they should be for a healthy ocean:
… Read the rest “American sharks are recovering (in the Atlantic, at least).”Scientists estimate that over-fishing of sharks
Nature reports on the discovery of a single, brain-encircling “crown of thorns” neuron that might be the seat of consciousness:
… Read the rest “Is this one, long neuron where consciousness comes from?”Christof Koch, president of the Allen Institute
A paleontological dinner party, as drawn by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, the sculptor who also made the dining accommodations – an Iguanodon. Nowadays, we know (or think we know)… Read the rest “Science Art: Dinner in the Mould of the Iguanodon, by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, 1854.”
SONG: “Glassy Carbon Rods.”
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE:Big improvement to brain-computer interface,” Science Daily, 17 Feb 2017, as used in the post “Brain-electronics… Read the rest “SONG: Glassy Carbon Rods”
Science Nordic reports on the mysteries of enormous Stone-Age circles found in Denmark:
… Read the rest “Hidden labyrinths in Denmark, dating back to the Stone Age.”One of the latest additions is a huge construction, discovered by archaeologists from the Museum
Science Daily reports on “glassy carbon electrodes,” a breakthrough in the interfaces that connect computers to our brains:
… Read the rest “Brain-electronics just got better”The Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering
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 are likely to develop autism within two years:
… Read the rest “MRI scan predicts autism with 80% accuracy.”“Our
NPR has more on how potters inadvertently preserved a record of Earth’s magnetic field 3,000 years ago:
… Read the rest “Ancient pottery reveals the past of Earth’s magnetic field.”About 3,000 years ago, a potter near Jerusalem made a big jar. It was meant to
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 Service. “The… Read the rest “Science Art: The Albatross Dredging, 1883.”
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 appear on Earth:
… Read the rest “Our first breath of air, analyzed 2.3 billion years later.”Christopher Junium,
Popular Science shows us how to make a cheap paper microscope that really works:
… Read the rest “This origami microscope costs less than a dollar – and you can magnify stuff by 2,000 times.”In the Foldscope, invented by Stanford University engineers, creased paper creates a scaffold, which holds
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 fly through all the time:
… Read the rest “Radiation clouds may sicken jet travelers.”We have long
Might look pretty in a dish, but you don’t want to find this on your crops – it’s bad news.
This image, taken by Scott Bauer, is from the USDA Agricultural… Read the rest “Science Art: Cultures of a destructive mold called Phomopsis, by USDA-ARS”
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 can have a stronger effect on hypertension… Read the rest “Bad gut bacteria can cause high blood pressure.”
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