A photo with maybe a little optimism.
From NASA’s Image of the Day gallery description:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Demo-2 Launch: Setting Forth on a Historic Journey by NASA/Bill Ingalls”A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft
Popular Science makes some of the most terrifying creatures of prehistory even more terrifying with reconstructed evidence that flesh-eating dinosaurs got hungry enough to eat each … Read the rest “Dinosaur cannibals.”
Science News reviews the show-stopping submarine research that has gone behind the scenes with four species of sequined sea worms that have collectively been named “Elvis worms”… Read the rest “These sea worms look sequined – so we named them after Elvis”
Prince Albert I of Monaco was really into marine life, and used the royal yacht as a scientific research vessel.
Here, from the description on The Artful Gene’s tumblog… Read the rest “Science Art: Cephalopodes: Pl. III, 1889.”
SONG: “In the Ring”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Scientific American, 4 May 2020, “A Shiny Snack Bag’s Reflections Can Reconstruct the Room around It,” as used in… Read the rest “SONG: In the Ring”
Reuters reports that, if we didn’t have enough proof that world is turning inside out, the so-called White Continent is now warm enough that its snow is turning green:
… Read the rest “Antarctica is turning green.”Now, using data
The Guardian looks forward to a time when our plastic bottles will be replaced with plant-based containers that turn into, essentially, mulch in a year:
… Read the rest “Better bottles.”The plans, devised by renewable
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From the “Scientific Illustration” collection on Wikimedia Commons, where this image of trilobites and prehistoric shellfish has the following… Read the rest “Science Art: Devonian Marine Organisms, by Aleksandra Arkhipova, 2015”
Science Daily reports on Ohio State University research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that finds a single meal high in saturated fats, while comforting, totally… Read the rest “One fatty meal can reduce your ability to focus.”
Nature looks inside pulsing stars – not pulsars, but a group called “δ Scuti stars” – that flicker in a regular enough pattern that astronomers can use the frequency… Read the rest “Music of a pulsing star reveals its inner structure.”
Scientific American shows how the dwarf planet at the fringes of our solar system was partially shaped by a cartoonish reaction to a major collision:
… Read the rest “Pluto (probably) got whacked on one side so hard it jiggled on the other, thanks to a (partially) liquid center.”Its elliptical western lobe, the 1,240-mile-long
Ja’far ibn Muḥammad Abū Ma’shar wrote a book – and published it in Venice. It was the place to be, and to see the sky, in the 1500s. He was famous. A star … Read the rest “Science Art: Albumasar De magnis coniunctionibus, 1515”
I’m trying to keep COVID-19 research to a minimum here, just because there’s so much of it everywhere, but I couldn’t resist this piece from Reuters. There’s … Read the rest “A llama antibody.”
Scientific American is doing a deep, multi-story dive on privacy issues, and this one’s a doozy. Researchers have used an irregularly shaped shiny object, like a metal bowl or a bag… Read the rest “How your snack bags can give you away.”
Nature has a video up with paleontologist Nizar Ibrahim, who discusses tailbones from the Sahara that indicate this gigantic, prehistoric bird relative swam for its supper:
… Read the rest “Spinosaurs were swimmers: “the only known aquatic dinosaur.””A new fossil
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