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Month: January 2019

Brain implant decodes the words your ears are hearing – or that you want to say.

30 January 2019 grant 0

New Scientist reveals an experimental system that uses brain electrodes to translate thoughts of speech into words spoken by an electronic voice:

The technique used temporary electrodes

… Read the rest “Brain implant decodes the words your ears are hearing – or that you want to say.”
by Julio Lacerda

Science Art: Styracosaurus, by Julio Lacerda

27 January 2019 grant 0

by Julio LacerdaClick to embiggen

I’ve always had a thing for these guys – the frills are so, well, *frilly*. I don’t usually picture them looking quite so … of the dawn, I guess.… Read the rest “Science Art: Styracosaurus, by Julio Lacerda”

New missing link: The ape that walked like we do.

25 January 2019 grant 0

The Leakey Foundation reveals what we know about the newest proto-human species to be given a name, Australopithecus sediba – and what these guys tell us about the way we learned to… Read the rest “New missing link: The ape that walked like we do.”

SONG: “2014 MU69 (Approach Me)”

23 January 2019 grant 0

SONG: “2014 MU₆₉ (Approach Me)”.

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Science News, 30 Dec 2018-1 Jan 2019, “Live updates: New Horizons’ flyby of a distant Kuiper Belt object,”… Read the rest “SONG: “2014 MU69 (Approach Me)””

Researchers are moving a *forest* uphill to save monarch butterflies.

22 January 2019 grant 0

Nature reports on a peculiar, passionate project led by Mexican scientists who are trying to save an endangered species by transplanting hundreds of fir trees to higher, cooler elevations,… Read the rest “Researchers are moving a *forest* uphill to save monarch butterflies.”

You can find this telecommunications image at this NASA archive: https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/alsj-JamesBurns.html

Science Art: RCA Lunar Communications by James Burns

20 January 2019 grant 0


You can find this telecommunications image at this NASA archive: https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/alsj-JamesBurns.htmlClick to embiggen

Phoning home from the next world over.

This is how it looked half a century ago.

You can find more James Burns illustrations for the Apollo mission here.

[via Humanoid History… Read the rest “Science Art: RCA Lunar Communications by James Burns”

The honeybee’s greatest foe isn’t after their blood – it’s sucking their *fat*.

18 January 2019 grant 0

Science Daily puts the beekeeper’s foe, the varroa mite (believed to be a key player in Colony Collapse Disorder), in a new light. The parasite had long been thought to be a blood-sucker,… Read the rest “The honeybee’s greatest foe isn’t after their blood – it’s sucking their *fat*.”

Growing perfect little human blood vessels in a dish – and a mouse

17 January 2019 grant 0

The University of British Columbia, via Science Daily, wants us to know that they’ve taken stem cells and used them to grow perfect little blood vessels, just like the ones inside … Read the rest “Growing perfect little human blood vessels in a dish – and a mouse”

Deprived kids feel the effects two decades later.

15 January 2019 grant 0

Medical Xpress (via PhysOrg) reports on a long-term Boston Children’s Hospital study of institutionalized children from Romanian orphanages – the Bucharest Early Intervention… Read the rest “Deprived kids feel the effects two decades later.”

from https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11204096863/in/album-72157638850077096/

Science Art: A Plunge into Space, book cover, 1890.

13 January 2019 grant 0

from https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11204096863/in/album-72157638850077096/Click to embiggen
This is the cover of an early science fiction hit, Robert Cromie’s A Plunge into Space, which was in print from 1890 to 1910. It’s about a scientist, Henry Barnett,… Read the rest “Science Art: A Plunge into Space, book cover, 1890.”

The Hubble is broken, and the gov’t shutdown means no one’s fixing it.

11 January 2019 grant 0

Nature shows us how politics is blinding science:

Hubble’s mission operations are based at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, where most employees are on involuntary

… Read the rest “The Hubble is broken, and the gov’t shutdown means no one’s fixing it.”

A single feral cat destroys a colony of endangered birds.

10 January 2019 grant 0

Australia’s WA Today reveals how one stray cat killed 40 chicks and forced a protected bird colony to move elsewhere to try to survive:

The Mandurah fairy tern breeding program has

… Read the rest “A single feral cat destroys a colony of endangered birds.”

Forbes is replacing articles editors with robots now?

8 January 2019 grant 0

I’m trying to parse this some other way, but Digiday is sure making it seem like this “topic prompter/rough draft creator” software is a step towards programming a machine… Read the rest “Forbes is replacing articles editors with robots now?”

dead horse arum lily

Science Art: Helicodiceros crinitus Schott by J. Strohmayer / Anstalt v. Reiffenstein & Rösch in Wein.

8 January 2019 grant 0

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An image of an arum, from the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s Aroideae, 1 album, consisting of plates from Heinrich Wilhelm Schott’s Aroideae. The artist… Read the rest “Science Art: Helicodiceros crinitus Schott by J. Strohmayer / Anstalt v. Reiffenstein & Rösch in Wein.”

Penguin choices: Either the scientist comes and makes you puke, or else your whole family’s poop gets photographed from space.

3 January 2019 grant 0

Science News gets the dirt on how we use space hardware to discover what penguins are eating:

Because Adélie penguins cluster together at a predictable rate, researchers have figured out

… Read the rest “Penguin choices: Either the scientist comes and makes you puke, or else your whole family’s poop gets photographed from space.”

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