Science reveals the strange similarities, found by archaeologist Scott Fitzpatrick of the University of Oregon, between the very modern cryptocurrency markets and the very ancient … Read the rest “The cryptocurrency of ancient Yap.”
If you want to give your old-fashioned lover your heart. Or kidney.
Ah, tradition.
Cecile Dachary does all manner of feminine arts, always with a logical (or, really, “-logical”)… Read the rest “Science Art: Anatomical Embroidery by Cecile Dachary”
SONG: “Rats Get Into Everything”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Nature, 11 July 2018, “Seabirds enhance coral reef productivity and functioning in the absence of invasive… Read the rest “SONG: Rats Get Into Everything.”
Nature reports on new observations of the vast, insatiable, matter-consuming maw at the heart of our galaxy that, on the bright side, has given helped prove one little corner of one of Einstein’s… Read the rest “The Milky Way’s big black hole gives Einstein a boost.”
The ESA findings were published in Science – Italian astronomers have found evidence of a 12-mile-wide lake under the southern ice cap:
… Read the rest “There’s liquid water on Mars”ABSTRACT:
The presence of liquid water at
This is an animated look at the part of human reproduction you don’t normally see on video loops on the internet (so if all you’re seeing now is words or a still picture, clicky… Read the rest “Science Art: “How to Build a Human” by hellofromthemoon.”
Science Daily covers the Carnegie Institution for Science’s discovery of 12 previously unknown moons around Jupiter, including a tiny, backward Jovian moon they’re calling… Read the rest “Jupiter has 12 more moons – including one that’s *weird*.”
Nature has the answer, as supplied by a team of British and Australian researchers. Even though rats can’t live underwater, they can do fine on an island. And, thanks to their appetite… Read the rest “How rats can kill a coral reef.”
SONG: “One of Our Submarines” (penitential cover)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for being late for the June song. … Read the rest “SONG: One of Our Submarines (a penitential Thomas Dolby cover)”
Almost a crescent. A moon of the late 1800s.
An astronomical drawing from the French-born Harvard researcher who, as an entomologist (as well as an astronomer), unleashed the horribly … Read the rest “Science Art: Partial Eclipse of the Moon by Étienne Léopold Trouvelot”
Science Daily introduces us to a newly discovered Amazonian wasp that’s singularly well-endowed in the stinger department:
… Read the rest “This jungle wasp has a stinger almost as long as the rest of its body.”“The stinger of the new parasitoid wasp called
Nature looks at a bold new frontier (and whole new money-making opportunities) opened by fiddling around with cannabis DNA:
… Read the rest “Genetically modifying cannabis… for science and for profit.”On 25 June, the FDA announced its approval of Epidiolex — a treatment
How a young person can launch “any number of air balloons” without the risk of setting the neighbors’ corn ricks on fire – by using a gas stove with a chimney like… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. 353, Wessel’s Gas Stove”
SONG: “Upside Down”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Nature, 12 June 2018, “Africa’s majestic baobab trees are mysteriously dying”, as used in the post “The … Read the rest “SONG: Upside Down”
Science Daily looks at a University of Alberta study that has found something interesting about how intelligence forms in our brains – by isolating a different part of parrot brains… Read the rest “Studying the seat of parrot intelligence”
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