A remarkably tidy asteroid.
Science News describes how the MASCOT asteroid lander has found the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu oddly devoid of dust: The asteroid, thought to have formed from […]
Month: August 2019
An algorithm to sniff out fake news, linguistically.
The Conversation looks at a way that Fatemeh Torabi Asr, a computational linguistics researcher at Simon Fraser University, has devised to use computers to instantaneously […]
Science Art: Biosphere_2_-_panoramio_(4) by Qygen, 19 Aug 2003.
Click to embiggen Sure, I listen to an episode of Omnibus! here and there, and the latest was on the oddly half-forgotten project that was […]
SONG: Built On Sand
SONG: “Built on Sand” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Nature, 2 July 2019, “Time is running out for sand,” as used in the post “We’re […]
We caught a glimpse of a symbol becoming an idea in the brain.
Science News shares results from an English MRI experiment that has mapped, for the first time, how exactly our brain takes a symbol, like a […]
New hope for coral reefs is sprouting at Florida Aquarium
CNN is among the news outlets covering a hopeful story (as the rain forests burn), that the Florida Aquarium in Tampa has found a way […]
Phil Plait explains why nuking Mars is a bad idea.
The internet’s “Bad Astronomer” takes to SyFy.com to explain to Elon Musk and everybody else why detonating nuclear bombs on the Martian ice caps would […]
Science Art: (Coleoptera: Lucanidae) Mitophyllus macrocerus, male, by Des Helmore
Click to embiggen vastly A beetle of character. From Wikimedia Commons.
How larvae leap long with no legs
Science News looks at high-speed photo research that reveals how a gall midge larva can leap up to 36 times its body length without any […]
Fishing ecology: the big ones are getting away.
Nature shares the sad fact that “freshwater megafish” – in other words, the really big ones, the 60-pounders out there in the rivers and lakes […]
A smartphone-controlled brain implant.
Science Daily brings news (from Nature Biomedical Engineering) of a new, well, not “killer,” but “really pretty useful” app for people suffering a wide range […]
Science Art: Reconstruction on paper of Tyrannosaurus rex, from Bulletin of the AMNH, 1905 (Linda Hall Library).
Click to embiggen From the Linda Hall Library “Scientist of the Day” entry on Henry Fairfield Osborn: Osborn named and described some of the most […]
Toddlers tend to choose the last item in a set… (file under “parenting” or maybe “preschool politics”)
Science News has a discovery that should at least change the way research methods and court examinations are carried out. Very young kids have an […]
Irish kid wins big for plan to get rid of microplastics using magnets.
Business Insider lauds Fionn Ferreira, an 18-year-old who won the Google Science Fair (and a $50,000 pot) with a plan to use ferrofluid – magnetic […]
Science Art: Weather Delay, by Ferdinand Warren
Click to embiggen From the Smithsonian Institutes’ National Air and Space Museum “Eyewitness to Space” collection, paintings from the years when NASA had fine artists […]