Science News looks gas flares, the open flames used to burn off leaking natural gas and to convert methane to CO2 directly at oil fields. They find that they’re less effective than … Read the rest “Gas flares don’t burn off as much methane as they should – to the tune of 3 million cars’ worth of pollution.”
The flame from a Bunsen burner (a standard piece of chemistry equipment; you might have used one in high school) can change color and height depending on how much air flows into the jet of fuel.… Read the rest “Science Art: Bunsen burner flame types, by Arthur Jan Fijałkowski (WarX).”
SONG: “False Social Reality”.
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SOURCE: Nature Communications 23 Aug 2022, “Americans experience a false social reality by underestimating popular… Read the rest “SONG: False Social Reality”
PsyPost reports on a study of social isolation – “the objective state of having limited social relationships or contact with others” – that found the problem… Read the rest “Boys (and men) are more socially isolated than girls (and women), study finds.”
Science News reports on the discovery of charred dung in Syria that has rewritten history, pushing back the date of the oldest domesticated animals by 2,000 years:
… Read the rest “Humans domesticated animals way earlier than we thought – about 13,000 years ago at least.”“We know today that dung
Science News winds back the astronomical clock to the early days of Planet Earth, when waves of comet collisions seem to have slammed the planet’s solid crust into shape in a regularly… Read the rest “Comets from the Milky Way’s other arms helped form Earth’s continents.”
Here’s a picture of a distinctive bit of geography. There are hobbits down there, and members of Split Enz and The Chills, and some of Taika Waititi’s relatives too. Here’s… Read the rest “Science Art: New Zealand’s South Island, by Samantha Cristoforetti, 2022.”
The Payload newsletter reports on a new law being debated by American legislators. The ORBITS act is intended to create new technologies for ADR – active debris removal – from… Read the rest “U.S. Senate is doing something to try to clean up space junk.”
Nature investigates the idea that the various symptoms of long covid – which can include cardiac trouble, neurological problems, muscle pain, and general fatigue – might… Read the rest “Looking at the long covid “micro-clot” hypothesis.”
Science magazine reveals the single gene change that gave Homo sapiens sapiens the edge in brain matter over Homo sapiens neanderthalensis:
… Read the rest “Genetic finding shows how modern humans grew more brain cells than Neanderthals.”[Wieland Huttner, a Max Planck Institute neurobiologist,]
This is an ad for a chemical that seemed like a miracle in the 60s (at least to this marketing department), but is one of those things to which people nowadays develop chemical sensitivities.… Read the rest “Science Art: Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP): GAF’s Gift to Women, 1967.”
Nature looks at a “false social reality” that shapes our government policy – a persistent, mistaken belief across the population that underestimates support for … Read the rest ““False social reality”: More people care about climate change than you think. A LOT more.”
Space.com reports on the discovery of two intriguing planets found orbiting an ultracool star – including one world that falls within the life-sustaining Goldilocks zone:
… Read the rest “Ultracool dwarf star has a Goldilocks planet.”The
The Guardian reports on a crisis for Spanish farmers and water utilities that has turned into a boon for archaeologists – and tourists – as plummeting reservoir levels reveal… Read the rest “Sunken megaliths revealed by Spanish drought.”
These are the skulls of two English crocodiles. They were English before the first Anglo-Saxons arrived on that island’s shores. Of course, they also went extinct before the first… Read the rest “Science Art: Anglosuchus, by James Erxleben, c. 1877.”
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