Motorcycle rallies are a boon … for people waiting for organ donors.
MedPage Today maps the correlation between riding fast and free and donating your young organs to people who need them: Compared with the 4 weeks […]
Month: December 2022
Female snakes have two clitorises.
The Guardian reveals research into the private lives of lady snakes, which has found that those things human scientists thought might be scent glands or […]
Turtles have voices that we hadn’t heard till now.
Defector (not just a sports blog) reports on a zoological discovery – that turtles have been vocalizing all along, but we’ve only realized they had […]
Science Art: Science by Santa: Remember bad kids get coal, Good kids get Uranium….,
Uranium, which produces 3 million times more energy and 10 million times less waste! I honestly have no idea if this PSA is real or […]
SONG: 14.8 Million
SONG: “14.8 Million”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Nature 14 Dec 2022, “Missing data mean we’ll probably never know how many people died of COVID,” as used […]
Dinosaurs had songs. Not so much roaring as something more melodic.
BBC reports on new research reconstructing the sounds of the dinosaurs, the honks, hoots, chirps, and vibrating grunts that the giant creatures used to communicate […]
Science Art: Snoopy Hitches Ride to Space Aboard Artemis I, November 2022
This is a NASA-released image of a very important piece of space technology. That small, color-corrected orange thing is a tiny plush Snoopy doll used […]
More people died of COVID-19 than we know. Or ever will know. Because data is missing.
Nature reports on the gaps in information that mean the official counts of people who died as a result of COVID-19 are much, much lower […]
Millions of years ago, when Earth was ruled by giant… crabs?
EurekAlert reveals new evidence of an age long before the dinosaurs, a primeval world 470 million years ago when the world was ruled by giant […]
What do you do when your neurological-implant company goes under?
Nature asks a question that doesn’t have an easy answer. Medical implants – especially newer ones that interface directly with your brain – are designed […]
Science Art: Mauna Loa Northeast Rift Zone Eruption – November 28, 2022, Civil Air Patrol
Rivers of lava glow a burning orange, sending white plumes up from a black stone landscape. This is a photograph of Hawaii – a place […]
Paleontology drama: Scientist accused of faking asteroid-death data to scoop colleague.
Science is not a publication normally given to interpersonal conflict. But now it’s covering the story of the weird competition between Robert DePalma and Melanie […]
Oldest full sentence ever found is a warning against beard lice.
USA Today (among other outlets) celebrated the discovery of an inscription in the oldest known alphabet – a 3,700-year-old Canaanite ivory comb engraved with 17 […]
Science Art: Scabrotrophon Species, Roland Houart, 2003.
These are seashells – murexes from the deep waters off Vanuatu called Scabrotrophon inspiratum. Belgian researcher Roland Houart wrote about them (and as far as […]
Good friendships make a healthier gut biome (in monkeys, at least).
Phys.org passes along research led by Dr. Katerina Johnson of Oxford and Dr. Karli Watson of UC Boulder, who found that the more social a […]