The American Council on Science and Health thinks disagreements over facts – even ones based on scientific evidence – may well naturally lead to the kind of divisive polarization… Read the rest “Is polarization inevitable? Can we *not* agree to disagree?”
PhysOrg explains that they were really Elasmotheriums – 3.5-ton primordial rhinos known as “Siberian unicorns” – but they really did survive into the era of… Read the rest “We really did walk with unicorns.”
“Atom” used to be the indivisible unit of matter, the thing smaller than which it was impossible to go. Now we know there are things inside atoms – neutrons, protons, … Read the rest “Science Art: Atom Nucleon”
SONG: “Quantum Biology”.
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SOURCE: Scientific American, Vol. 27, Dec. 2018, “’Schrödinger’s Bacterium’ Could Be a Quantum Biology Milestone”… Read the rest “SONG: Quantum Biology”
I don’t think Lula Mae is ever coming home. (And if you don’t get the reference, go now and watch the movie!)
They just don’t cowboy like they used to.
Science News is a leetle late to the game, but that’s the new reality. Researchers have completed some early studies on how fake news gets spread by bots – by acting super fast,… Read the rest “Bots and fake news: how it works”
Answering the unspoken question, yes, we are a little feverish here in the guild headquarters. Science News answers the explicit question, however. By having very limber wombat intestines… Read the rest “In observance of Thanksgiving week: How do wombats poop cubes?”
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Two fish from one of the first collections of X-ray photographs, published in Versuche über Photographie mittelst der Röntgen’schen Strahlen, 1896.
From the “Early… Read the rest “Science Art: Zanclus cornatus and Acanthurus nigra, by Josef Maria Eder and Eduard Valenta.”
Popular Science can reveal the disturbing solution to a minor military mystery with the story of how space weather made a bunch of military mines suddenly explode:
… Read the rest “Solar flares set off underwater mines in the Vietnam war – and we just figured it out.”[I]magine the U.S. military’s
Nature explodes the myth of brutal, violent cavemen with a skull study that shows they were about as mellow as modern humans:
… Read the rest “Neanderthals were pretty chill.”Writing in Nature, Beier et al. provide evidence that challenges
Science Daily invites us to the opening chapter of an alien invasion story, as international researchers explain how they just found a 31-kilometer-wide crater from an ancient meteorite… Read the rest “Giant impact crater discovered under Greenland’s ice.”
Nature takes a closer look the way different physical systems connection – the way the brain, the muscles, the blood vessels relate to one another – by gazing into the hardened,… Read the rest “Invisible mice reveal how bodies are put together – at remarkably tiny levels.”
Gemini Research News has some bad news for the Earth’s growing population. It turns out that our farms will face some trouble because we’re going to be bigger, healthier, and… Read the rest “We’re getting bigger: “It will be harder to feed 9 billion people in 2050 than it would be today.””
I’m not really that much of an electronica fan – at least not danceable electronic music – but this video is kind of awesome.
I mean, it’s awesome even though I know… Read the rest “Science Art: Cymatics, by Nigel Stanford”
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