Science News describes how the MASCOT asteroid lander has found the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu oddly devoid of dust:
… Read the rest “A remarkably tidy asteroid.”The asteroid, thought to have formed from the breakup of a larger body
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 identify … Read the rest “An algorithm to sniff out fake news, linguistically.”
Sure, I listen to an episode of Omnibus! here and there, and the latest was on the oddly half-forgotten project that was Biosphere 2.
I mainly remember Biosphere 2 as the … Read the rest “Science Art: Biosphere_2_-_panoramio_(4) by Qygen, 19 Aug 2003.”
SONG: “Built on Sand”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Nature, 2 July 2019, “Time is running out for sand,” as used in the post “We’re running out of…… Read the rest “SONG: Built On Sand”
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 letter, and converts it into the thought of a spoken… Read the rest “We caught a glimpse of a symbol becoming an idea in the brain.”
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 to get coral to reproduce – and potentially repopulate… Read the rest “New hope for coral reefs is sprouting at Florida Aquarium”
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 really not be… Read the rest “Phil Plait explains why nuking Mars is a bad idea.”
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A beetle of character. From Wikimedia Commons.
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 legs:
… Read the rest “How larvae leap long with no legs”In nature, something has to go wrong for this to
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 – are in the middle… Read the rest “Fishing ecology: the big ones are getting away.”
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… Read the rest “A smartphone-controlled brain implant.”
From the Linda Hall Library “Scientist of the Day” entry on Henry Fairfield Osborn:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Reconstruction on paper of Tyrannosaurus rex, from Bulletin of the AMNH, 1905 (Linda Hall Library).”Osborn named and described some of the most famous dinosaurs in the world,
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 inherent bias toward selecting the last … Read the rest “Toddlers tend to choose the last item in a set… (file under “parenting” or maybe “preschool politics”)”
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 liquid – to stick to microplastics… Read the rest “Irish kid wins big for plan to get rid of microplastics using magnets.”
From the Smithsonian Institutes’ National Air and Space Museum “Eyewitness to Space” collection, paintings from the years when NASA had fine artists… Read the rest “Science Art: Weather Delay, by Ferdinand Warren”
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