The Scientist reports on mice fed a high-fat diet, whose children and grandchildren still felt the effects in social behavior and overall health:
… Read the rest “A mother’s diet can affect children’s – and grandchildren’s – behavior.”High-fat diets have previously been shown
This is one of the first American spacecraft to land on the moon. We sent machines there before we sent people.
From the Smithsonian Open Access Collection description:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Lunar Lander, Surveyor”The Surveyor series
Science News reveals a new therapy based on memory exercises that shows promise in totally doing away with nightmare disorder:
… Read the rest “An end to nightmares”Frequent, terrifying dreams disturb sleep and even affect
SONG: “Good People Grow”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Science 29 Sep 2022, “This lagoon is effectively a person, says Spanish law that’s attempting to save it,” … Read the rest “SONG: Good People Grow”
This is a bunch of smut. Mostly, it’s smut in the genus Ustilago growing on plants in the same genus as knotweed and buckwheat. The long flower in the middle is Polygonum hydropiper… Read the rest “Science Art: Flower of Polygonum persicarium distorted by Utricle smut and following figures, by J.E. Sowerby, 1872.”
MIT Technology Review offers a strange solution to a serious problem. They’ve got robot bees who can dance inside a bee hive to direct workers to pesticide-free flower patches:
… Read the rest “Robot honeybees can steer hives to safer flowers.”After
University of Florida (go gator research!) is looking into a treatment that could help stop the loss of coral, which is nice because coral reefs help stop the loss of Florida due to beach erosion.… Read the rest “Probiotics are curing sick coral reefs.”
As a habitual night-owl, it pains me to consider this Scientific American interview with UC Berkeley neuroscientist Eti Ben Simon, whose research has shown that people who don’t… Read the rest “Sleep-deprived people are more selfish and lonely.”
The discovery, as Science News explains, is rewriting the evolution of the first cities. Instead of gradually growing inside walled enclosures around a temple, the Mesopotamian cities… Read the rest “Drone photos reveal ancient Mesopotamian island suburbs.”
A friend of mine clued me into this project. It really works and I encourage you to try it.
Did you know cephalopods have been on Earth for longer than trees? That Hawaiian bobtail squid glow… Read the rest “Science Art: “Get Squid Facts” street art, Philadelphia, 2022.”
Atlas Obscura introduces us to Enhydriodon omoensis, a newly classified prehistoric otter that roamed the Omo river valley of Ethiopia, hunting its prey and weighing more than 400 pounds… Read the rest “Otters as big as lions, there were. As big as grizzly bears.”
NASA reports that the DART mission was a success. For the first time ever, human beings have changed the course of a celestial object:
… Read the rest “NASA moved an asteroid.”Analysis of data obtained over the past two weeks by NASA’s
This is nerd humor from the dawn of the electric age. The “Phoney Patent Offizz” was apparently a regular column in Hugo Gernsback’s The Electrical Experimenter, a … Read the rest “Science Art: Reducing Apparatus, in “Phoney Patent Offizz,” The Electrical Experimenter, April 1917.”
The first time I heard about fishers was when I was discussing a little-known Florida cryptid, the “cracker dog-killer,” with a friend from Vermont. They seemed like they … Read the rest “The fishers are back, in Washington at least.”
Science magazine reports on a bit of Indigenous philosophy that’s become a legal strategy for environmental protection. After nearly 640,000 citizens signed a petition supporting… Read the rest “Legally, this Spanish lagoon is now a person, with all the rights a person has.”
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