Possible pangolin exoneration as coronavirus source.
Fans of the scaly anteater otherwise known as the pangolin can take heart in Nature‘s latest report, that might not have been the source of […]
Month: February 2020
A salmon parasite can survive without oxygen, without mitochondria, and with a lot of mystery.
Science News reports on the humble jellyfish-relative that lives in the bodies of Pacific salmon and undersea worms, and gets along fine without any mitochondria […]
SONG: “Young and Stupid”
SONG: “Young and Stupid” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: The Guardian, 3 February 2020, “Girls beginning puberty almost a year earlier than in 1970s,” as […]
Science Art: Block diagram illustrating the simulator setup and primary tracking task, 1960.
Click to embiggen Astronauts gotta learn how to astronaut. This is from a NASA document from 1960 called Technical Note D-546: Experience with a Three-Axis […]
Girls really are growing up quicker – biologically speaking.
The Guardian looks at the slightly puzzling change in the age girls reach puberty around the world: For girls, experts say the best marker of […]
Compost burials really work.
Science News digs into the science behind leaving the world a slightly more fertile place when you go, by having your body naturally composted after […]
They found a merging pair of black holes. And they named the formation “Spikey.”
Scientific American introduces us to a a couple of black holes named Spikey: In 2017 astrophysicists Daniel D’Orazio and Rosanne Di Stefano detailed how a […]
Science Art: Taf. II: Palephyra indica, Atorella subglobosa, Sanderia malayensis, 1902.
Click to embiggen These are from Die acraspeden Medusen der deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition: 1898-1899, the first of two volumes on jellyfish written by Ernst Vanhöffen, a […]
A red snowman, past the orbit of Pluto
Nature shares the wonder of Arrakoth, the object once known as 2014 MU69, in the Kuiper Belt beyond Pluto, the most distant world we’ve studied […]
New “reaper of death” tyrannosaur discovered in Canada.
National Geographic revels in the grisly remains of a killer found in a museum cabinet – bones that turned out to belong to a prehistoric […]
A particle called a “kaon” might just rewrite the rules of subatomic physics.
Sounds almost too Hollywood to be true, but Science News is covering some unexpected findings from a Japanese particle accelerator, where researchers say chaotic little […]
Science Art: Optical projection tomography: OPT analysis of Smoc1 expression in wild-type E9.5 mouse embryo, 2011
Click for rotating ogv video This is a video of a mouse, not yet born, that already has some issues; specifically “Waardenburg-Anophthalmia Syndrome.” It’s originally […]
A “cell-synthesized yarn” can stitch you up with your own skin cells.
Science Alert unravels the findings of a group at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research in Bordeaux, who have spun skin cells […]
An artist created a fake traffic jam with a wagonload of phones.
The Guardian looks at the way Google Maps is changing the way we look at maps, and the way one artist is hacking Google Maps […]
Seals talk with applause. OK, clapping. They clap to each other.
Science Daily leads a round of applause for researchers who’ve found that seals clap to each other underwater: “The discovery of ‘clapping seals’ might not […]