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Month: April 2022

Smallpox vaccine got a boost … from skin bacteria.

30 April 2022 grant 0

The-Scientist explores a strange interaction that helped eliminate smallpox without us even noticing. The vaccine that helped eliminate this killer got an extra boost from […]

Camera lens based on a trilobite’s eye keeps objects in focus near and far.

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Science News looks at the world through the eyes of Dalmanitina socialis, a creature extinct for 400 million years who could focus on objects as […]

scientific illustration of a blast engine, a marvelous machine of the Victorian era.

Science Art: Blast Engine, 1870s.

24 April 2022 grant 0

This was one of the attractions in the Machinery Hall of the Great Centennial Exhibition of 1876, a blast engine made by the I.P. Morris […]

SONG: Like Lava Made of Water

24 April 2022 grant 0

SONG: “Like Lava Made of Water” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Science 17 Apr 2022, “Icy Volcanos on Pluto Could Be Sign of Underground Ocean,” […]

Brain scans show even a mild covid case can shrink your brain – as many of us are finding out.

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National Geographic takes a broad look at neurological studies done at labs around the world that show that even the “mild flu” version of COVID-19 […]

Inca sacrifices were given ayahuasca in their final hours.

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IFL Science (among other outlets) is reporting on studies published in Nature and the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports that looked at the mummified remains […]

Scientific illustration of an amphibious aircraft from the 1800s.

Science Art: Pénaud’s first sketch of an amphibian aeroplane, 1873

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CW: Ends in despair. French aviation pioneer Alphonse Pénaud designed this, with engineer Paul Gauchot, as an aeroplane that could land on water or on […]

Pluto might have an underground ocean, if those icy volcanoes are any indication.

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Science magazine reports on new conclusions from the New Horizon spacecraft’s 2015 observations of ice volcanoes on Pluto, and what they could mean for the […]

There’s more than one speed of sound on Mars.

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Science News describes one of the odd issues facing our robotic exploration of the Red Planet, because sound waves travel differently in the thin atmosphere […]

Want your research cited by other scientists? Give your paper a funny title.

11 April 2022 grant 0

Nature reveals one of the weird truths about the way we do science. Publishing research is sometimes referred to as “the academic conversation,” and analysis […]

Scientific illustration of irisosaurus, a dinosaur discovered in 2020.

Science Art: Irisosaurus yimenensis life restoration, by Ang Li.

10 April 2022 grant 0

Irisosaurus yimenensis is a dinosaur discovered in 2020 in Yunnan, China, within the Fengjiahe Formation – a layer of sediment and fossils laid down in […]

There’s radioactive material *everywhere*. Here’s who’s trying to clean up clinics and food processing plants..

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Scientific American introduces us to the RadSecure program, which aims to keep the radioactive isotopes in use all around us from getting too close for […]

A 3,000-year-old skull surgery in Alabama

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Science News checks out the evidence for the oldest known skull surgery in America, a forehead-opening operation that took place between 3,000 and 5,000 years […]

FedEx is testing a drone with a 27-foot wingspan for “middle mile” delivery.

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Popular Science explains the 9.000-pound flying robots made by the drone company Elroy Air aren’t meant to get your packages to your door. They’re just […]

Scientific illustration from the 1797 Encyclopedia Britannica of a compound microscope, an 18th century scientific instrument.

Science Art: Culpeper’s Microscope, 1797.

3 April 2022 grant 0

This is a single microscope from a page of microscopes in the 1797 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, which I found on archive.org. This particular […]

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