Octopus brains and human brains have “jumping genes” in common.
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 […]
Month: June 2022
Self-driving, cabless semis are coming to U.S. roads.
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 with GE Appliances: […]
Science Art: Fig 2.1: Powder Rocket Projectile, 1956.
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 […]
The largest plant in the world stretches over 180 km and is 4,500 years old. And fish like it.
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: […]
SONG: A Pseudo-Satellite
SONG: “A Pseudo-Satellite” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: CNN 5 May 2022, “This solar-powered plane could stay in the air for months,” as used in […]
Polar bears without sea ice (a story of hope).
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 […]
Science Art: Crabs (figures 212-216, Natuurlyke Historie, page 256, 1782.
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, […]
Dolphins use corals and sponges as medicine – to treat their skin.
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 […]
Exhaustion (or distraction) as a language-learning tool.
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 […]
Chicken and rice go together – all the way to the origins of domestic fowl in grain fields.
Science News discusses two new studies that place the origins of domestic chickens in one specific place – Southeast Asia – and much more recently […]
Science Art: Bole cross section of common hazel (Corylus avellana), by Annika Karusion, 2011
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 […]
Sick of high crime? Support welfare. New study shows a dramatic link.
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 […]
Science Art: Artist’s concept of the fastest rotating star (VFTS 102), by NASA/ESA and G. Bacon (STScI).
This is a star spinning at 2 million kilometers per hour – so fast, it has made itself into its own twirling skirt, its own […]
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.
Scientific American looks at looking at. That is, the magazine – through an essay by systems neuroscientist György Buzsáki – surveys how it is that […]
The first animal communities are way, way older than you might think. (And weirder, too.)
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” […]