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Month: April 2018

Disembodied brains kept alive for 36 hours.

30 April 2018 grant 0

I’m not sure how new this science really is – it’s pigs, by the way, not people, in case you were worried – but The Guardian is excited at the prospect of scientists… Read the rest “Disembodied brains kept alive for 36 hours.”

Science Art: NASA spacecraft comparison, by D. Meltzer.

29 April 2018 grant 0

from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_dayClick to embiggen vastly. You can see the astronauts’ faces!

“Here am I floating in a tin can,” indeed.

Here’s how much room some of the first humans in space –… Read the rest “Science Art: NASA spacecraft comparison, by D. Meltzer.”

Neanderthals cruised the Mediterranean

27 April 2018 grant 0

I mean, who wouldn’t, really? Science looks back at evidence that Stone Age people traveled to Naxos, Crete, and other islands across the sun-kissed Med:

A decade ago, when excavators

… Read the rest “Neanderthals cruised the Mediterranean”

SONG: At 6 A.M.

24 April 2018 grant 0

SONG: “At 6 A.M.”.

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Nature, 17 Apr 2018, “Medicine’s secret ingredient — it’s in the timing”, as used in the post “Chronotherapy… Read the rest “SONG: At 6 A.M.”

Science Art: Selector Used for Timing Supervisory Signals, from The Bell System Technical Journal

22 April 2018 grant 0

from https://archive.org/details/bell00systemtechnvol15iamerrichClick to embiggen

Mmm. Switches. Communication.

Sigh. Maybe a sweet potato *doesn’t* mean that prehistoric Polynesians visited South America after all.

18 April 2018 grant 0

The Guardian has some sweet potato evolutionary research that unintentionally drives a wedge in the idea that the presence of the humble yam in both places indicates that prehistoric Polynesian… Read the rest “Sigh. Maybe a sweet potato *doesn’t* mean that prehistoric Polynesians visited South America after all.”

Chronotherapy is the discipline of giving medicine according to your body clock.

17 April 2018 grant 0

Nature explores the data being gathered about the surprising significance of time-of-day to effective medical treatment:

More than four decades of studies describe how accounting for

… Read the rest “Chronotherapy is the discipline of giving medicine according to your body clock.”

Science Art: Bearing Fault Detector, 1975

16 April 2018 grant 0

MSFC led us to safter railwaysClick to embiggen
NASA wants you to know they’re pretty handy here on Earth, too. This here shows a way to make trains and other things that use big, strong bearings safer, by using tricks… Read the rest “Science Art: Bearing Fault Detector, 1975”

The Gulf Stream is weaker than it’s been for 1,600 years.

13 April 2018 grant 0

The Guardian looks at one of the less discussed elements of climate change – with a once-dependable ocean current slowing, slowing, slowing down in a way that could change more than… Read the rest “The Gulf Stream is weaker than it’s been for 1,600 years.”

Giant genitals were the downfall of some ancient crustaceans

11 April 2018 grant 0

I can’t beat Nature‘s headline, so I won’t even try. “Giant genitals were the downfall of some ancient crustaceans.” The creatures from the Late Cretaceous… Read the rest “Giant genitals were the downfall of some ancient crustaceans”

Extinct lizard had four eyes.

10 April 2018 grant 0

LiveScience introduces us to Saniwa ensidens, a now-extinct monitor lizard from Wyoming that had an eye on either side of its head and two more on the top of its skull:

S. ensidens‘

… Read the rest “Extinct lizard had four eyes.”

Science Art: A View From A Launch, by NASA/Joel Kowsky

8 April 2018 grant 0

The Soyuz MS-08 rocket is launched with Expedition 55 Soyuz Commander Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos and flight engineers Ricky Arnold and Drew Feustel of NASA, Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Artemyev, Arnold, and Feustel will spend the next five months living and working aboard the International Space Station. Click to embiggen

This is the bus that takes the astronauts to work at the space station. It’s a long commute for a longer shift – they took two days to orbit Earth before getting… Read the rest “Science Art: A View From A Launch, by NASA/Joel Kowsky”

A bit more evidence that Viking sunstones really worked.

4 April 2018 grant 0

PhysOrg returns to the sunstone – remember the sunstone? the calcite crystal that may have helped the Vikings plot courses at sea? that inspired this song a couple years back? –… Read the rest “A bit more evidence that Viking sunstones really worked.”

Wind and solar (and batteries) could supply all of America’s power: Carnegie Science study

3 April 2018 grant 0

The Guardian looks at the journal Energy and Environmental Science to find out just how well the U.S. could handle switching over power supplies right now:

For instance, solar power generation

… Read the rest “Wind and solar (and batteries) could supply all of America’s power: Carnegie Science study”

Take a pill, kill mosquitoes.

2 April 2018 grant 0

NPR recently ran a story on a new use for a fairly well-known drug, ivermectin. If you have a dog or cat (or horse or sheep), you might well have used ivermectin to treat fleas or worms. But apparently,… Read the rest “Take a pill, kill mosquitoes.”

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