Ars Technica covers a weird, almost cinematic story out of California, where law enforcement officials have, following a code-enforcement tip, just busted an illegal lab filled with … Read the rest “Is this a mad scientist being busted? Something worse?”
This is an oddly domestic example of an astronomical principle … or maybe it only seems domestic to me because I keep a bicycle in my living room. But anyway, three very different objects… Read the rest “Science Art: If Bodies fill the Same Angle, their Size is Proportional to their Distance, 1898”
The expat news magazine Wanted in Rome reports on an archaeological discovery in the shadow of the Vatican – a theater dedicated to the notorious Emperor Nero before 70 CE, but lost… Read the rest “Theater of Nero discovered in Rome.”
PhysOrg introduces us to Gnathia jimmybuffetti, a little marine mystery-bug (or literally, “cryptofauna”) related to roly-poly pillbugs but named for that fella still… Read the rest “Parrot-heads, celebrate: New isopod discovered in Florida Keys named for you-know-who.”
The Lunar Landing Research Vehicle-3 was an experimental Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) vehicle – a fancy hovercraft – that the Apollo astronauts used to practice … Read the rest “Science Art: Armstrong Through the Years – LLRV-3 by NASA Graphics/Kirstin Sharrer”
SONG: “The Scientist (a penitential cover)”. (available as .ogg here)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: This isn’t based on research It’s a cover of this vaguely scientific… Read the rest “SONG: The Scientist (a penitential Coldplay cover)”
IFLScience reports on some stylish, retro bangles coming from a Brazilian designer that are taking the world by storm … because they were made from giant sloth bones about 25,000 … Read the rest “Bone jewelry means humans were in the Americas *before* the Bering Land Bridge.”
The osprey is also known as the fish hawk, and as Pandion haliaetus, a name that comes from two parts: King Pandion II, the eighth king of Athens and grandfather of Theseus, and ἁλιάετος haliáetos… Read the rest “Science Art: Osprey in Flight, by Enrique Patino, 2011”
CNN reports on a Spanish discovery that a 5,000-year-old skeleton buried with an elephant tusk, an ostrich egg, an ivory comb and two daggers – one ivory and the other amber –… Read the rest “Ivory Lady was a prehistoric warrior queen (and maybe a warrior witch queen, too).”
Science News reports on a controversy over Homo naledi, a human-like ape from 160,000 years before the first Homo sapiens, who might have been burying its dead and decorating their gravesites… Read the rest “A human-like ape might have decorated the graves of its dead 330,000 years ago.”
This is a diagram of a times table. As the drawing’s description on Wikimedia Commons reads:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Binary Operations – Multiplication Mod 16, by Inductiveload.”Binary ring diagram to illustrate operators on binary numbers. The least significant
Scientific American reports on a James Webb Space Telescope discovery, allowing scientists the first possible glimpses of the very first stars ever to shine in our universe:
… Read the rest “Astronomers might finally have seen the universe’s first stars.”It is hunting
Venture Beat, a tech investing magazine, weighs in on research that looks directly at the problems that arise when AI is used to generate web content, which is then gathered up and used to … Read the rest “AI trained on AI tends to collapse (like most cannibalizing systems do).”
I hate to read it, but NPR reported on a Stanford study that found gas stoves increase levels of benzene in the home – a chemical that brings with it a noticeable increase in risk of cancer… Read the rest “Cooking with gas increases cancer risk.”
30 pfennigs could get you a lot of weather back in 1973 in West Germany.
It commemorates a century of teaming up to watch the weather.
The artist, Karl Oskar Blase, has a bit more in the way of … Read the rest “Science Art: 100 years of international meteorological collaboration, by Karl Oskar Blase, 1973.”
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