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This cartoon appeared in Resonance between an article called “Genetics to Genetic Algorithms: Solution to Optimisation Problems… Read the rest “Science Art: X-Ray Lab, cartoon from Resonance: Journal of Scientific Education, August 1996.”
The University of Cambridge has studied 15,000 people and determined that playing a quick browser game is effective in getting folks to resist the seductive effects of fake news:
… Read the rest “An inoculation against fake news: a video game in which you create propaganda.”Players
Will happen soon. Have tracks, but words are hard.
I’m not sure if this really is a scientific illustration, but I think, given the time, it counts as natural history. This thing – heads made of… well…… Read the rest “Science Art: Water, by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1566”
Science News shares the genetic solution to a puzzle that’s had marine biologists (and Greenland whale hunters) puzzled since the 1980s. Namely, what the heck was that weird whale… Read the rest “Yep, that whale was plenty weird. Half narwhal, half beluga.”
Nature powers up with a mechanical fish that runs off a circulating liquid power source:
… Read the rest “Robot fish has battery blood.”The roughly 40-centimetre soft robot doesn’t have solid batteries — instead it is propelled by a
The Telegraph reports on the internet’s favorite ocean-going vessel, the submersible Boaty McBoatface, and the plucky little robot sub has just been doing some potentially world-saving… Read the rest “Boaty McBoatface’s Big Breakthrough”
They’re just taking up more space. That’s the conclusion, published in The Atlantic, of researchers looking at how satisfied people are with their homes – compared… Read the rest “Bigger houses aren’t making people happier.”
The Age of Exploration included at least a little bit of schoolwork. Here are navigation students learning the ways of current and coastline. Their teacher, Petrus Plancius… Read the rest “Science Art: favorite image Petrus Plancius Instructing Students in the Science of Navigation, early 17th century”
Popular Science thinks they know – and the answer is literally cool:
… Read the rest “How the zebra got its stripes. (An 85-year-old researcher’s first published study!)”Now the 85-year-old amateur scientist [Allison Cobb] has published her first scientific study [in the Journal
Science News traces the history of highs to a Chinese site where 2,500-year-old tombside remains indicate that smoldering cannabis was stacked in wooden bowls for ritual inhalation –… Read the rest “Ancient stoners used wooden bowls. (Not the kind on pipes, either.)”
Ars Technica tries to discover what it is about bats that could help us humans live longer, healthier lives:
… Read the rest “Why do bats live so long? And how can we live longer too?”For the most part, as the size of the mammal goes up, its metabolism slows down and
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An image of the summer sky (in the Northern Hemisphere) by William Peck, F.R.A.S., from his book, The constellations and how to find them; 13 maps, showing the position … Read the rest “Science Art: Map IX: The Constellations of June and July by William Peck.”
Science News has the results of a new study that shows healthy “normal” humans have a “large patches” of mutated cells in lots of different kinds of healthy tissues… Read the rest “We’re all mutants. Or largely mutant.”
Nature has a quite long piece (and quite sensational headline) on the way Earth’s “evil twin,” Venus, is inspiring a new generation of interplanetary explorers to … Read the rest “Venus is luring Earth explorers again.”
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