Month: February 2018
Science Art: The midnight sun, from Atlas zu Alex. V. Humboldt’s Kosmos, 1851.
Click to embiggenPolar bears salute the midnight sun as Arctic explorers sail to the horizon.
This image is part of a page of “Cosmic Meteorological Landscapes” that are all… Read the rest “Science Art: The midnight sun, from Atlas zu Alex. V. Humboldt’s Kosmos, 1851.”
So these folks infect themselves with this parasitic worm to figure out how to cure this disease….
Science revisits one of my childhood nightmares (one of many blessings from frequent family visits to South Africa) with news of researchers infecting volunteers with what my aunts called… Read the rest “So these folks infect themselves with this parasitic worm to figure out how to cure this disease….”
Household chemicals cause as much smog as cars now?
Nature gets a little provocative with research that seems to show that as much air pollution comes from our houses as our cars:
… Read the rest “Household chemicals cause as much smog as cars now?”Volatile organic compounds contribute to the formation of
Creating a new kind of light
Science Daily looks at an “optical state” – a form of light that can allow engineers to create super-fast quantum computers powered by photons:
… Read the rest “Creating a new kind of light”Try a quick experiment:
Scientists reverse Alzheimer’s (in mice).
Science Daily reports on Rockefeller University researchers who have undone the damage of Alzheimer’s Disease in mice by gradually depleting levels of a particular brain enzyme:… Read the rest “Scientists reverse Alzheimer’s (in mice).”
Science Art: What is that green gunk?, USGS/NASA, 2 Nov 2017
Click to embiggenThe answer, from the US Geological Survey’s Facebook page, is an algal bloom in Lake Erie, as photographed by Landsat:
… Read the rest “Science Art: What is that green gunk?, USGS/NASA, 2 Nov 2017”In late September, Earth-observing satellites
Dim lights might make us less bright.
Science Daily turns the lights up on Michigan State University neurological research showing sitting in a darkened room can hurt the brain’s ability to remember and learn:
… Read the rest “Dim lights might make us less bright.”The researchers
Making wood that’s stronger than steel
Nature has a new process for turning trees into a building material that’s tougher than girders or automobile frames:
… Read the rest “Making wood that’s stronger than steel”“It’s a new class of materials with great potential,” says Li
Science Art: V alambicchi, from Acta Eruditorum, 1740.
Click to embiggenChinese tomb with sewer security.
Xinhuanet reports on an ancient civil engineering project – a tomb from 1,000 years ago that has an elaborate system to keep water – and tomb robbers – out:
… Read the rest “Chinese tomb with sewer security.”The excavation
Stonehenge architects slept here.
The Guardian reports on a new discovery shedding light on the ancient mystery of Stonehenge – by showing us where the megalithic architects lived – and made their massive plans… Read the rest “Stonehenge architects slept here.”
Science Art: 2014 Evolutionary Biology – Austrian 25 Euro, designed by Helmut Andexlinger.
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Money! Monkey money!
This is some currency art done in niobium and silver, honoring the discipline of evolutionary biology. I don’t think it has any *actual* DNA… Read the rest “Science Art: 2014 Evolutionary Biology – Austrian 25 Euro, designed by Helmut Andexlinger.”
Here’s what killed all those antelopes on the steppes. It’s warmer now.
Science News gets the answers on what suddenly killed 200,000 saiga antelopes in 2015:
… Read the rest “Here’s what killed all those antelopes on the steppes. It’s warmer now.”“If you come at dawn and dusk, it’s magical,” says E.J. Milner-Gulland, a conservation biologist