Scanner helmet lets brain patients move around. (And look like warriors from Krull.)
The Guardian has a game-changing invention for neurologists and anyone who needs a brain-scan done – a wearable helmet that lets you walk around – […]
Month: March 2018
Sitting on eggs is only for modern birds. Primeval birds did it differently.
Nature reveals the ins and outs of dinosaur-era reproductive strategies, with research showing that prehistoric birds were too heavy to incubate their own eggs: Most […]
They found Cao Cao’s grave.
South China Morning Post reports on the massive mausoleum of a legendary figure from Chinese history – the general Cao Cao, a character in the […]
Science Art: Kerr-Flaechen.gif (Ergospheres, Event horizons and the ring singularity of a rotating black hole.)
This is an animated gif showing a ring singularity or “ringularity” of a spinning black hole. A black hole that doesn’t spin will collapse into […]
SONG: The Hardest Fact (Considering IMS J2204+0112)
SONG: “The Hardest Fact (Considering IMS J2204+0112)”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Science News, 16 Mar 2018, “Astronomers can’t figure out why some black holes got so […]
SONG: Titanium (penitential cover)
SONG: “Titanium” (penitential cover) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for being late for the February song. (I think […]
Caffeine actually slows some of us down – genetically.
Outside, that paragon of high-performance science, has some interesting findings from the University of Toronto, where researchers found that caffeine regularly boosts athletic performance – […]
Science Art: Accipitres, Osprey, Goshawk, &c., 1889
Click to embiggen Funny I should have found this image today, right after discussing Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk (a book bloody and wonderful, […]
15,000-year-old DNA reveals prehistoric African culture
Science magazine opens a window on the past with DNA samples from Africa’s oldest cemetery: The origins of the ancient Moroccans, known as the Iberomaurusians […]
Outperforming black holes get too big, too fast.
Science News has a metaphor for our times playing out in deep space, where we’ve been watching black holes defy expectations by getting much bigger, […]
80 percent of America is a Third-World Nation: M.I.T. Economist.
The Institute for New Economic Thinking has a rather grim look at America’s economic future (and present), courtesy of an M.I.T. economist, Professor Emeritus Peter […]
Gut bacteria drive autoimmune diseases.
Science Daily reports on a Yale study that has found that intestinal bacteria can trigger autoimmune responses (like those in lupus) – and targeting those […]
Science Art: With this electrolytic cell as little as a milligram of various heavy metals may be precisely determined, 1922
Click to embiggen Early electronics: a cell for isolating minute quantities of heavy metals, apparently by zapping a drop of a solution under a powerful […]
Jupiter’s cyclone-clusters have a geometry. They make shapes.
Science News looks over data from the Juno space probe and marvels at some of the strange things that are being revealed about the giant […]
Ancient Egyptian tattoos discovered under our noses.
Nature pulls back the veil on those smudges seen on Egyptian mummies on display for more than a century – that, it turns out, are […]