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Month: January 2023

Kids are wearing toxic make-up

31 January 2023 grant 0

The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health has released an alarming study that’s found levels of carcinogens and other toxic materials, including … Read the rest “Kids are wearing toxic make-up”

A scientific illustration of a DNA molecule, twisting away in front of a wet-looking background.

Science Art: DNA Double Helix, by the National Human Genome Research Institute

29 January 2023 grant 0

An image of the machine that builds our bodies, bit by bit.

From the National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, located at www.genome.gov – though … Read the rest “Science Art: DNA Double Helix, by the National Human Genome Research Institute”

SONG: Whispering Secrets to Me

24 January 2023 grant 0

SONG: “Whispering Secrets to Me”.

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Defector 15 Nov 2022, “Turtles Have Been Vocalizing All This Time. Why Did We Not Listen?,” as used … Read the rest “SONG: Whispering Secrets to Me”

Study: ChatGPT could earn an MBA from Wharton

23 January 2023 grant 0

A professor at the prestigious Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania – probably America’s most highly regarded business school – has found … Read the rest “Study: ChatGPT could earn an MBA from Wharton”

Get ready for some small modular nuclear plants.

22 January 2023 grant 0

AP News reports on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approving the first design for a new kind of nuclear power plant that’s smaller and less expensive to build that traditional… Read the rest “Get ready for some small modular nuclear plants.”

Scientific illustration of a rabbit, bright-eyed and determined, outrunning an owl, claws outstretched and hungry beak open wide.

Science Art: Just Missed Him, by G.E. Lodge, 1898.

22 January 2023 grant 0

I wasn’t sure if this really counted as a scientific illustration, despite finding it in the Biodiversity Heritage Library, since most of the other plates in this book are really … Read the rest “Science Art: Just Missed Him, by G.E. Lodge, 1898.”

New invention won’t let you LOL without, you know, laughing out loud.

19 January 2023 grant 0

Vice reports on the LOL Verifier, a device that won’t let you type out “LOL” in a message unless you’ve actually just laughed out loud:

[Brian] Moore, an artist

… Read the rest “New invention won’t let you LOL without, you know, laughing out loud.”

Despite their public stance, Exxon’s internal science team had a clear view on climate change.

17 January 2023 grant 0

Ars Technica looks at the way Exxon executives decided to bury their own company’s very accurate findings on petroleum and climate:

Exxon’s scientific climate work was shut

… Read the rest “Despite their public stance, Exxon’s internal science team had a clear view on climate change.”
Scientific illustration of colorful sea anemones practically glowing in orange, yellow, and red against the blackness of an undersea cave or rock face.

Science Art: Corynactis Viritis (et al), Phillip Henry Gosse, 1860.

15 January 2023 grant 0

These are sea anemones, from History of the British Sea-Anemones and Corals by Phillip Henry Gosse.
They are, according to the caption below:
1-5 Corynactis Viritis, 6. Bologera Eques,… Read the rest “Science Art: Corynactis Viritis (et al), Phillip Henry Gosse, 1860.”

Anesthesiologists issue painful pot warning in new guidelines.

12 January 2023 grant 0

MedPage Today shares a painful finding from the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA Pain Medicine), who have issued guidelines for pre-operative treatment… Read the rest “Anesthesiologists issue painful pot warning in new guidelines.”

Webb snaps Milky Way-like galaxies taking shape long, long ago.

9 January 2023 grant 0

PhysOrg looks back (via the James Webb Space Telescope) to when the universe was a quarter of its current age, and has been able to see young galaxies stretching out into shapes like our own… Read the rest “Webb snaps Milky Way-like galaxies taking shape long, long ago.”

Scientific illustration of... well, there's a lot going on here. We've got a mythical-looking figure in a loincloth, sort of half-Zeus (his right hand is holding lightning bolts) and half-Hephaestus (his left hand, to our right, is on a large switch) Along the lower right of the image there are insets of various early 20th-century electrical devices. To the left and across the bottom is a block of text advertising a course in electrical science in the form of a book by S. Gernsback (doubtless a relative of the publisher, Hugo Gernsback) and H.W. Secor. It only costs a dollar!

Science Art: Experimental Electricity Course, 1916.

8 January 2023 grant 0

This is how you advertise a science book. At least, it was how Hugo Gernsback did in the pages of The Electrical Experimenter in September 1916. Is that figure in the middle Hephaestus or is… Read the rest “Science Art: Experimental Electricity Course, 1916.”

Nebraska researcher identifies the first known virus-eating organism.

4 January 2023 grant 0

EurekAlert presents the findings of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s John DeLong, who has found the first known virovore – a microorganism that feeds on viruses:

DeLong and

… Read the rest “Nebraska researcher identifies the first known virus-eating organism.”

Science Art: Papillons, from Larousse Universe, 1922

1 January 2023 grant 0

Thanks to an unexpected gift from an old friend, I was just reading an article in the print edition of Scientific American about the Sora people of eastern India, who have a unique culture … Read the rest “Science Art: Papillons, from Larousse Universe, 1922”

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