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 – and turn your head –… Read the rest “Scanner helmet lets brain patients move around. (And look like warriors from Krull.)”
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:
… Read the rest “Sitting on eggs is only for modern birds. Primeval birds did it differently.”Most birds today incubate
South China Morning Post reports on the massive mausoleum of a legendary figure from Chinese history – the general Cao Cao, a character in the Romance of Three Kingdoms, whose 1,800-year-old… Read the rest “They found Cao Cao’s grave.”
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 a point; a spinning black… Read the rest “Science Art: Kerr-Flaechen.gif (Ergospheres, Event horizons and the ring singularity of a rotating black hole.)”
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… Read the rest “SONG: Titanium (penitential cover)”
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… Read the rest “Caffeine actually slows some of us down – genetically.”
Funny I should have found this image today, right after discussing Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk (a book bloody and wonderful, including cameos by Merlin Sylvestris,… Read the rest “Science Art: Accipitres, Osprey, Goshawk, &c., 1889”
Science magazine opens a window on the past with DNA samples from Africa’s oldest cemetery:
… Read the rest “15,000-year-old DNA reveals prehistoric African culture”The origins of the ancient Moroccans, known as the Iberomaurusians because 20th century
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, much faster than we figured:
… Read the rest “Outperforming black holes get too big, too fast.”Sightings
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 Temin. He’s… Read the rest “80 percent of America is a Third-World Nation: M.I.T. Economist.”
Science Daily reports on a Yale study that has found that intestinal bacteria can trigger autoimmune responses (like those in lupus) – and targeting those germs with antibiotics… Read the rest “Gut bacteria drive autoimmune diseases.”
Early electronics: a cell for isolating minute quantities of heavy metals, apparently by zapping a drop of a solution under a powerful microscope and seeing what’s… Read the rest “Science Art: With this electrolytic cell as little as a milligram of various heavy metals may be precisely determined, 1922”
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 planet – including the clusters of cyclones … Read the rest “Jupiter’s cyclone-clusters have a geometry. They make shapes.”
Nature pulls back the veil on those smudges seen on Egyptian mummies on display for more than a century – that, it turns out, are actually tattoos of animals and ritual tools:
… Read the rest “Ancient Egyptian tattoos discovered under our noses.”Scrutiny
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