Science News reports on a system for “upcycling” plastic trash by converting the non-recycled waste destined for the landfill into surfactants, the chemicals that make … Read the rest “From plastic trash into sudsy cleansers.”
A satellite that is also a balloon, as inflated at NASA’s Langley Research Center in 1958.
I found this image gleaming in the NASA Image and Video Library.
SONG: “FAQs”. (available as .wav here)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on Popular Science, 14 Aug 2023, “School district uses ChatGPT to help remove library books,”… Read the rest “SONG: FAQs”
This is the cover of the 1972 March/April issue of Information Display, Vol 9 No 2, from archive.org.
Stories inside include ways to project different-sized letters on a cathode-ray screen,… Read the rest “Science Art: Information Display front cover, 1972”
Popular Science discusses a school board in Iowa using ChatGPT to itemize the books that should be removed from library shelves because they ‘contain a description or depiction … Read the rest “ChatGPT, the Fahrenheit 451 edition”
The Markup is making an offer to anyone with a Facebook account – even an inactive one. Previously, they mapped out how the Meta Pixel (formerly the Facebook Pixel) gathered people’s… Read the rest “Wanna watch the watchers?”
This is a tiny component in an amplifier, seen way up close.
If you want the specifics, from the Wikimedia Commons page where I found it:
… Read the rest “Science Art: 2N930 NPN silicon planar transistor, by Mister rf”45V, 0.03A 300mW 3-Pin TO-18
The 2N930 is designed for
The Guardian reports from Cyprus, where an antiviral medicine for human COVID-19 patients has proved effective against a deadly outbreak of feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), a disease… Read the rest “Human coronavirus meds cure deadly cat disease.”
Eurosurveillance reports on an ongoing epidemic that has seen a contagious strain of avian influenza, HPAI H5N1, jump from birds to mammals, where it’s spread from wild seagulls… Read the rest “There’s a bird flu epidemic in fur farms. (This is not great.)”
Baby pictures, from The American lobster; a study of its habits and development, a Bureau of Fisheries document that I found here, at the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Science Daily has the story of a research team at Northwestern University that has determined the way any particular star should twinkle – which is a phenomenon based in part on how… Read the rest “Twinkle loudly, little star”
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