Tree-coffin burial for a Celtic Swiss lady of prominence.
LiveScience relates how impressed archaeologists are at the classiness of an Iron Age Celtic burial in what’s now Switzerland: After studying the 2,200-year-old burial, archaeologists […]
Month: July 2019
Disinformation is not false information, and it’s not manufactured. And it doesn’t want you to believe anything.
Nature has an essay up by a disinformation researcher, who wants us to know that disinformation is usually partially true, and mostly spread by people […]
Science Art: Coronal plasma on an ionization tube in operation, by BentaxGermany, 2013
Click to embiggen vastly If it looks like a miniature sun, maybe that’s because on one level it is – it’s creating plasma, which surrounds […]
Last Thursday, a “city-killer” asteroid buzzed by Earth, and we had no clue it was coming.
LiveScience was among the outlets breathlessly describing our close encounter with a giant speeding space-rock that took us all by surprise: Ranging in size from […]
The “sonic attack” in Cuba and China… definitely did something to diplomats’ brains. Literally.
The New York Times reports on findings (from JAMA) that the people who’d complained of nausea, visual blurring and other effects after some strange events […]
The American pocket shark glows in the dark
CNN was among the news outlets celebrating the discovery of a small, glow-in-the-dark shark species: The 5 1/2-inch American Pocket Shark is the first of […]
No song – again!
Because computers sometimes break, and replacement computers sometimes don’t work the way one expects them to, and because just setting up a recorder and recording […]
Science Art: Galileo’s Moon Phases, 1616.
Click to embiggen slightly Galileo drew pictures of the moon – pictures that included imperfections on the surface. The moon, he observed, had texture. Hills […]
“Diamond-based security” low-tech foil for high-tech counterfeiters
Fortune reports on a new company that aims to keep supply chains secure in the era of 3D printing by using unique patterns of diamond […]
Fishermen who communicate make the environment healthier.
Hakai takes a sociological look at an ecological problem, with research that shows marine environments are measurably healthier in areas where fishermen communicate openly about […]
China is going back to fighting the ozone hole.
Nature reports on Chinese officials having a redo on one of our past environmental successes, seeking out the source of massive plumes of ozone-destroying CFCs […]
Science Art: Perspective view of the sky…, from “Refraction by Ice Crystals” in Instructions to Marine Meteorological Observers, 1938.
Click to embiggen These are the optical effects you have to be aware of if you’re going to describe the sky when ice-filled cirrus clouds […]
Skulls of the first Homo sapiens in Europe
Nature introduces us to the Greek ancestors of modern humanity – by far the oldest-known Homo sapiens, relatively recently discovered in a cave in southern […]
In states where marijuana is legalized, underage use is *dropping*.
CNN reports on a JAMA Pediatrics study that found an interesting correlation between decriminalizing cannabis and teenagers’ use of the plant. Recreational use among teens […]
ICE is data-mining driver’s license photos.
TechCrunch reveals that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement – ICE, the agency formed in 2003 as a replacement for the INS – has been quietly […]