Science Daily reports on an Italian study that found something in common between human brains and the brains of two different species of the unusually intelligent invertebrate the octopus… Read the rest “Octopus brains and human brains have “jumping genes” in common.”
TechCrunch rides along with Einride, a Swedish electric drone-trucking startup that’s bringing “self-driving pods” to U.S. public roads this year in partnership… Read the rest “Self-driving, cabless semis are coming to U.S. roads.”
This is one of the first illustrations in V. I. Feodosiev’s and G. B. Siniarev’s Introduction to Rocketry, an English translation of a Russian text from 1956 done by the US Air… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig 2.1: Powder Rocket Projectile, 1956.”
The University of Western Australia has singled out a seagrass, Poseidonia australis, in the waters of Shark Bay, Western Australia, as the world’s largest plant:
… Read the rest “The largest plant in the world stretches over 180 km and is 4,500 years old. And fish like it.”UWA student researcher
SONG: “A Pseudo-Satellite”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: CNN 5 May 2022, “This solar-powered plane could stay in the air for months,” as used in the post Solar plane… Read the rest “SONG: A Pseudo-Satellite”
Nature reports on polar bears who appear to be adapting to climate change by altering their hunting strategies to survive in a world without sea ice:
… Read the rest “Polar bears without sea ice (a story of hope).”Researchers identified the genetically
A collection of crustaceans from a book by Amsterdam-based publisher Louis Renard on East Indian sea creatures. The illustrations were apparently done by Samuel Fallours, an artist employed… Read the rest “Science Art: Crabs (figures 212-216, Natuurlyke Historie, page 256, 1782.”
Science magazine takes a deep dive on the medical lives of dolphins, who appear to be intentionally using corals and other stuff growing on the reef as antibiotic treatments for itchy skin… Read the rest “Dolphins use corals and sponges as medicine – to treat their skin.”
Kids acquire languages better than adults do – everyone knows that. But Scientific American looks at researchers with Ghent University’s Eleonore Smalle who went just a … Read the rest “Exhaustion (or distraction) as a language-learning tool.”
Science News discusses two new studies that place the origins of domestic chickens in one specific place – Southeast Asia – and much more recently than we thought, and much … Read the rest “Chicken and rice go together – all the way to the origins of domestic fowl in grain fields.”
This is a microscope’s view of a plant’s stem, uploaded to Wikimedia Commons as part of the Estonian Science Photo Competition of 2011, which I can only assume was the forerunner… Read the rest “Science Art: Bole cross section of common hazel (Corylus avellana), by Annika Karusion, 2011”
EurekAlert! posts a peer-reviewed study published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics that shows a “quite dramatic” correlation between the removal of welfare and an … Read the rest “Sick of high crime? Support welfare. New study shows a dramatic link.”
This is a star spinning at 2 million kilometers per hour – so fast, it has made itself into its own twirling skirt, its own hula hoop, its own dervish robe.
As the European Space Agency… Read the rest “Science Art: Artist’s concept of the fastest rotating star (VFTS 102), by NASA/ESA and G. Bacon (STScI).”
Scientific American looks at looking at. That is, the magazine – through an essay by systems neuroscientist György Buzsáki – surveys how it is that the human mind detects the… Read the rest “The brain is not a blank slate. Here’s how it shapes what you see, what you don’t see, and what you think you know.”
They had strange, branching forms, says Popular Science as they look over fossils from Newfoundland. And they took off centuries before the so-called “Cambrian explosion”… Read the rest “The first animal communities are way, way older than you might think. (And weirder, too.)”
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