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Month: February 2023

Scientific illustration of a spiny lobster nymph dyed blue-green for the microscope., all legs and bubble-body and eyes (or tails?) on long stalks.

Science Art: Evibacus princeps, 2019

26 February 2023 grant 0

It’s a wickle baby slipper lobster! That color came from it being prepared on a slide so it could be examined under a microscope. The […]

No song today.

24 February 2023 grant 0

Another penitential cover will be forthcoming. I’m a tired man.

An AI fighter plane has taken off, engaged a simulated enemy and landed without a human pilot’s help.

22 February 2023 grant 0

DARPA reports on the Air Combat Evolution program’s newest breakthrough, which took a regular F-16 fighter jet, equipped it with an Artificial Intelligence program capable […]

Scientific illustration of a pterosaur, a flying dinosaur-like animal called Mimodactylus. It has broad, white, black-rimmed wings and is soaring above a sandy islet in a bright blue lagoon of prehistoric Afro-Arabia.

Science Art: Mimodactylus in life, 2019.

19 February 2023 grant 0

This is a painting of Mimodactylus libanensis soaring over what Nature (where it was first published) called “Afro-Arabia,” a continent that existed many millions of […]

Australian whales looking for mates have given up singing and taken up fighting.

16 February 2023 grant 0

EurekAlert shares a University of Queensland study that shows a turn to violence among courting whales along Australia’s eastern seaboard. Whales seeking mates are giving […]

NASA astronaut finally ready to spend more than a year in space.

16 February 2023 grant 0

Ars Technica reports on a long-awaited milestone. After many not-quite-that-long missions, a NASA astronaut is on the way to finally spend more than a full […]

Scientific illustration in the form of a black-and-white photo of a device used to test how an engine uses up lubrication oil, consisting of a long shaft ending in a gear, lined with rows of tubes and nozzles, with a row of small bottles along the front.

Science Art: Test Apparatus, 1960

12 February 2023 grant 0

A test apparatus, as used for the article “Modification of Force Feed Lubricators” in the 1960-05 edition of Lubrication Engineering. The idea was to study […]

We can get back to the night sky. But it will take work.

11 February 2023 grant 0

Ars Technica reports on the ongoing blotting out of the stars at night, with artificial light pollution doubling in the last 10 years alone. There […]

Vikings brought animals to England, radioactive analysis shows.

7 February 2023 grant 0

Science News looks at a Viking burial site in England where animals were buried alongside humans, and finds that radioactive traces show these critters traveled […]

Scientific illustration of a Mars Science Laboratory - that is, a steel capsule not unlike a 1950s concept of a flying saucer - starting to meet resistance in the thin Martian air, with visible plumes of white atmosphere spraying from its underside.

Science Art: Deceleration of Mars Science Laboratory in Martian Atmosphere, 2011

5 February 2023 grant 0

An image from NASA/JPL-Caltech depicting a capsule starting to slow down in the Martian atmosphere. All we see is the outer structure, which seems mostly […]

Researchers: one police stop makes a person less likely to vote.

3 February 2023 grant 0

Bolts magazine has an article by one of the researchers published in American Political Science Review who found that police interactions directly correlate with lower […]

The gap between rich and poor is growing faster in the U.S. than Europe.

1 February 2023 grant 0

Researchers from Imperial College London and the Paris School of Economics have looked across the pond at 50 years of data and found that America, […]

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