LiveScience relates how impressed archaeologists are at the classiness of an Iron Age Celtic burial in what’s now Switzerland:
… Read the rest “Tree-coffin burial for a Celtic Swiss lady of prominence.”After studying the 2,200-year-old burial, archaeologists
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 who don’t realize it –… Read the rest “Disinformation is not false information, and it’s not manufactured. And it doesn’t want you to believe anything.”
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If it looks like a miniature sun, maybe that’s because on one level it is – it’s creating plasma, which surrounds it like a corona around the sun.… Read the rest “Science Art: Coronal plasma on an ionization tube in operation, by BentaxGermany, 2013”
LiveScience was among the outlets breathlessly describing our close encounter with a giant speeding space-rock that took us all by surprise:
… Read the rest “Last Thursday, a “city-killer” asteroid buzzed by Earth, and we had no clue it was coming.”Ranging in size from 187 to 427 feet (57 to 130
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 in America’s Cuban… Read the rest “The “sonic attack” in Cuba and China… definitely did something to diplomats’ brains. Literally.”
CNN was among the news outlets celebrating the discovery of a small, glow-in-the-dark shark species:
… Read the rest “The American pocket shark glows in the dark”The 5 1/2-inch American Pocket Shark is the first of its kind to be discovered in the
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 a thing makes… Read the rest “No song – again!”
Galileo drew pictures of the moon – pictures that included imperfections on the surface. The moon, he observed, had texture. Hills and valleys. Craters.… Read the rest “Science Art: Galileo’s Moon Phases, 1616.”
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 dust scattered on manufactured parts to act as a unique … Read the rest ““Diamond-based security” low-tech foil for high-tech counterfeiters”
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 what… Read the rest “Fishermen who communicate make the environment healthier.”
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 detected over two Chinese… Read the rest “China is going back to fighting the ozone hole.”
These are the optical effects you have to be aware of if you’re going to describe the sky when ice-filled cirrus clouds are overhead. Ice crystals refract sunlight… Read the rest “Science Art: Perspective view of the sky…, from “Refraction by Ice Crystals” in Instructions to Marine Meteorological Observers, 1938.”
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 Greece:
… Read the rest “Skulls of the first Homo sapiens in Europe”Harvati et al.
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 actually… Read the rest “In states where marijuana is legalized, underage use is *dropping*.”
TechCrunch reveals that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement – ICE, the agency formed in 2003 as a replacement for the INS – has been quietly analyzing driver’s… Read the rest “ICE is data-mining driver’s license photos.”
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