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Month: December 2020

Defrosting a woolly rhino (and its last supper).

30 December 2020 grant 0

Siberian Times has breaking news from practically before modern humans existed, when a baby woolly rhino got frozen in the permafrost layer that’s only melting now:

The juvenile

… Read the rest “Defrosting a woolly rhino (and its last supper).”

Kangaroos intentionally communicate with humans.

28 December 2020 grant 0

Sci-News.com wants all of us to know that kangaroos, despite never having been domesticated, still want to let us know what they’re thinking:

…[S]aid lead author Dr. Alan

… Read the rest “Kangaroos intentionally communicate with humans.”
scientific illustration - a photo, really - of an unstalked crinoid, a kind of marine animal related to a starfish

Science Art: Lamprometra protectus, ventral view of a specimen with 23 arms from Stat. 125., 1918

28 December 2020 grant 0

scientific illustration - a photo, really - of an unstalked crinoid, a kind of marine animal related to a starfish
This is a crinoid, a cousin to sea urchins, sea cucumbers and starfish. I suppose some of them have stalks like sea anemones, but these ones don’t! The image is from The Unstalked Crinoids… Read the rest “Science Art: Lamprometra protectus, ventral view of a specimen with 23 arms from Stat. 125., 1918”

NASA’s Mars rover trains for “seven minutes of terror.”

27 December 2020 grant 0

BBC shares a video showing how February’s Perseverance Mars rover mission plans to start with an automated landing sequence engineers have dubbed “the seven minutes of terror”… Read the rest “NASA’s Mars rover trains for “seven minutes of terror.””

SONG: Iron in the Sky

24 December 2020 grant 0

SONG: “Iron in the Sky”

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SOURCE: Based on Science News, 19 Nov 2020, “50 years ago, scientists named Earth’s magnetic field as a suspect in extinctions”… Read the rest “SONG: Iron in the Sky”

Male crickets use leaves to make themselves seem bigger… in THAT way, yes.

23 December 2020 grant 0

Science News brings attention to male shortcomings and the gender’s creativity in overcoming them with a story about crickets who use leaves as megaphones, amplifying their mating… Read the rest “Male crickets use leaves to make themselves seem bigger… in THAT way, yes.”

Coronavirus has reached Antarctica

23 December 2020 grant 0

Reuters reports on the inevitable – COVID-19 has finally been carried to a research station in the Antarctic, breaking out in more than 30 people stationed in the remote, icy continent… Read the rest “Coronavirus has reached Antarctica”

Look southwest.

22 December 2020 grant 0

NASA has details on how to spot the Great Conjunction – the giant planets Jupiter and Saturn appearing almost as a single point of light shortly after sunset yesterday, today (the … Read the rest “Look southwest.”

Science Art: In s is das Centrum fur den Meridian ANQ, 1857

20 December 2020 grant 0

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As described on Wikimedia Commons (who got this diagram from the British Library), the image was “taken from page 100 of ‘Grundzüge der mathematischen Geographie… Read the rest “Science Art: In s is das Centrum fur den Meridian ANQ, 1857”

The mystery of ancient Egyptian head cones has been solved.

20 December 2020 grant 0

National Geographic shares new clues to an age-old puzzle, deciphering what exactly the cone-shaped objects on some people’s heads really were in ancient Egyptian paintings –… Read the rest “The mystery of ancient Egyptian head cones has been solved.”

Shrews can shrink and regrow their brains.

17 December 2020 grant 0

The Scientist magazine investigates what’s going on inside the skulls of the tiniest terrestrial mammals. Etruscan shrews, it turns out, cope with winter’s demands by getting… Read the rest “Shrews can shrink and regrow their brains.”

Social media use linked to increased depression risk.

15 December 2020 grant 0

University of Arkansas is encouraging us to delete that app and stop feeding the feeds. A national study led by Dr. Brian Primack, dean of the College of Education and Health Professions,… Read the rest “Social media use linked to increased depression risk.”

A scientific illustration of a fossil insect, a scorpionfly

Science Art: Holcorpa Maculosa Scudder

13 December 2020 grant 0

A scientific illustration of a fossil insect, a scorpionfly Click to embiggen
A scorpionfly from the Miocene shales of Colorado, as the caption says in the Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution from June 30, 1953. I found… Read the rest “Science Art: Holcorpa Maculosa Scudder”

Young ravens equal grown-up chimps on IQ tests.

11 December 2020 grant 0

Scientific American looks at a new round of tests that ravens as young as 4 months old have passed with flying colors, outwitting adult great apes (almost) in math, following cues, and other… Read the rest “Young ravens equal grown-up chimps on IQ tests.”

Mastodon tenderizers shift human history in North America wayyy back… again.

11 December 2020 grant 0

Science News reports on a twisty debate on human origins in North America, with a new analysis of stones embedded with microscopic bits of mastodon, apparently used by prehistoric chefs… Read the rest “Mastodon tenderizers shift human history in North America wayyy back… again.”

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