Just discovered: Tiny tunnels that connect your brain to your skull.
Science News says the little tubes help immune cells travel from bone marrow to injured parts of the brain membrane: In mice, inflammatory immune cells […]
Month: August 2018
AI successfully predicts earthquake aftershocks.
Nature says the earthquake prophet is IN. Or in the machine at least. For the first time, a machine-learning system beat human experts at figuring […]
Meat by law, not by lab.
Not the usual science-mag fare, but yesterday USA Today had a story that’s sort of about business and sort of about unintended consequences of cutting-edge […]
Science Art: Stripping ESO 137-001, a Hubble/Chandra composite image of a spiral galaxy.
Click to embiggen From the Astronomy Picture of the Day description: This image combines NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations with data from the Chandra X-ray […]
SONG: Taste the Wind
SONG: “Taste the Wind” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Nature, 13 Aug 2018, “Spacecraft sets off to make humanity’s closest approach to the Sun”, as […]
Chilling out: Starting to study the physiology of ASMR
Researchers from the UK’s University of Sheffield and Manchester Metropolitan University have taken a closer look at what’s really going on with all those hugely […]
SONG: Circuits in the Sand (penitential cover)
SONG: “Circuits in the Sand” [Download] (penitential cover) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for being late for last […]
Was Homo erectus too lazy to survive? Really?
Smithsonian seems to be blaming the (ahem) efficiency of “least-effort strategies” on the fall of Homo erectus, modern humans’ recent ancestor: In a statement, lead […]
Science Art: Geostrophic and Surface-Winds at Southport, 1931
Click to embiggen Eight years of observations, from 1908 to 1915, went into this chart. We’re looking at deviations from geographic points, and the percentage […]
Tasting the solar wind.
Nature reports on the Parker Solar Probe, a ship with a mission to closer than we’ve ever been to the Sun, even dipping into the […]
Cut out cutting out the salt
Yes, it’s still controversial, but it looks like (according to The Guardian‘s reporting) that successfully lowering your salt intake might – oops – increase your […]
We’ve figured out why marijuana helps inflammation.
Popular Science looks at Mary Jane, gut problems and the mechanism behind cannabis helping make IBS better: A new study from University of Massachusetts and […]
Science Art: Hoxne Hand Axe, by Thomas Underwood and John Frere
This is a hand axe made by prehistoric humans – but the image is a historical relic in its own right. It represents the first […]
Vikings left the New World because the walrus market went bust
That is, if we’re counting Greenland as the New World. OK, maybe I’m stretching here – but anyway, AP has new findings that show the […]
An AI is writing for Wikipedia.
The high, whistling hiss you hear rising ever so slightly in volume in the background is the sound of white-collar jobs evaporating. Wired only begins […]