Ars Technica digs the research of Indiana University grad student W. Walker Smith, who has combined his interests in music and chemistry to create a “data sonification project”… Read the rest “Elemental music from a spectroscope.”
SpaceX Dragon Endurance returns to Earth on the night of March 11, 2023. Specifically, it’s just after 9:00 p.m. in the waters off Tampa, Florida.
As described in NASA’s image… Read the rest “Science Art: Crew-5’s Nighttime Splashdown, by NASA/Keegan Barber, 2023”
NPR looks at a subtle, slow-motion health crisis facing America. Compared to every other industrialized nation, across every age group, Americans die younger … and we’re… Read the rest “Americans die young – and are dying younger than ever, compared to the rest of the world.”
SONG: “Giant Isopods Have Stolen My Gameboy”.
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SOURCE: This has no source in scientific research; it’s a penitential cover of a song by a band named Werk… Read the rest “SONG: “Giant Isopods Have Stolen My Gameboy” (a penitential Werk cover)”
SONG: “The Elephant”.
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SOURCE: BBC 28 Feb 2023, “Kerala: India temple replaces elephant with robot for rituals,” as used in the post “Kerala temple… Read the rest “SONG: The Elephant”
The Guardian reports on a geographically broad study – a study of studies from many different countries – that looked at same-sex couples and found that their children are … Read the rest “Kids of same-sex parents are… pretty normal, according to an international study.”
Nature honestly (and slightly brutally) examines its own shortcomings as a political advocate in a study that found the scientific journal’s 2020 endorsement of Joe Biden didn’t… Read the rest “Nature‘s endorsement didn’t help Biden – it only hurt Nature (and scientists in general).”
This is a photograph of a model from the Field Museum of Natural History, representing a cycad flower reconstructed from a fossil.
The fossil came from the Cycad National Monument, established… Read the rest “Science Art: A Fossil Flower (Cycadeoidea ingens), 1924.”
Science News reports on a presentation at the recent Lunar and Planetary Science Conference by researcher Abhilash Ramachandran, who found that rice – one of our planet’s… Read the rest “Martian soil is nice for rice.”
The Space Shuttle Discovery shot this photo of the International Space Station flying high over the Caspian Sea during the STS-114 Return to Flight mission. The shuttle had been docked … Read the rest “Science Art: ISS Aug 2005, by NASA.”
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine looked (I’m tempted to say “longingly”) at the sex lives of middle-aged women, and found the main factor influencing… Read the rest “No sex, please. Not menopausal, just busy! (Research says.)”
Riddles are funny! BBC reports on the discovery at the Hathor Temple in southern Egypt of a small sphinx with an engaging grin that might have been modeled on the Emperor Claudius:
… Read the rest “Cute, smiling mini-sphinx found in Egypt.”The limestone
Ars Technica celebrates an underwater discovery: the surprisingly well-preserved wreck of the schooner barge Ironton, which went down in 1898 after colliding with the Great Lakes freighter… Read the rest “Lake Huron reveals 19th-century shipwreck.”
“Screws at one single cut,” the ad boasts. This is an ad from the front of The Engineer’s Sketch-Book of Mechanical Movements, by Thomas W. Barber – full title:… Read the rest “Science Art: Britannia Co.’s Patent Screwing Machine, 1890.”
PNAS reports on some unanticipated consequences of solar farming – but things that banks of solar panels that are unexpectedly good, not bad:
… Read the rest “Solar panels increase crop yields, insulate reservoirs, and can help farmers.”To generate as much energy as a conventional
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