Shingles vaccine fights dementia.
Forbes has a strange but true example of unintended (but welcome) consequences. It seems like Shingrix, the new shingles vaccine, also offers protection against developing […]
Month: July 2024
Science Art: Saturn V-Shuttle-Ares IV comparison, by Bchan.
Some rockets are bigger than others. I think this illustration (which I found here, on Wikimedia Commons) is maybe a better depiction of how space […]
Climate change affects the Earth’s rotation more than the Moon does.
PhysOrg shares research from ETH Zurich that demonstrates something that should be obvious to anyone who’s played pool. But as the warming Earth makes the […]
Curiosity finds some exciting times on Mars.
Mashable reports on the Mars Rover Curiosity, which has just found evidence of some major flooding and splishing and splashing on the surface of Mars […]
SONG: Inside the Moon
SONG: “Inside the Moon”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: BBC, 15 July 2024, “Cave discovered on Moon could be home for humans“, as used […]
Science Art: Collection of various birds from A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, 1820.
This is an educational poster, retouched by Wikimedia Commons user Rawpixel, of birds. It’s taken from Oliver Goldsmith’s book A History of the Earth and […]
Being a night owl is a mental-health risk.
I can’t tell if this is either totally obvious or the gravest of insults … or, more likely, both… but Stanford researchers have found that […]
Why did some folks never get covid, and others *always* got it?
The Conversation finds a scientific reason for an often-observed phenomenon – that some people seemed strangely immune to COVID-19, while others would come down with […]
There’s a cave on the moon we could live in.
BBC reports on the discovery of a cave on the moon that has awakened a primordial proto-human urge in the space scientists observing it. They […]
Science Art: Skull reconstruction of Utahceratops gettyi, 2010.
Here’s a horned dinosaur, or what’s left of one. I found it on Wikimedia Commons, but it was originally found in Utah, then written up […]
Up to 60% of the objects nearest Earth could be “dark comets.”
PhysOrg reports on mysterious chunks of hard-to-see space rock all around us, even now. They contained – and might still contain – ice, which University […]
One of the world’s poshest schools bans smartphones, issues Nokias.
How will the students play Bubble Cash? Mashable reports on what might be a smart move in favor of dumb phones at the upper-crusty English […]
Covid boosters protect against other viruses.
Science Alert has some encouraging research for those who keep up with their immunizations, with evidence that covid boosters offer increased protection against other strains […]
Science Art: Trojeborg, a stone labyrinth from Visby, 1919
This is an illustration from Nordisk Familjebok, a Norwegian encyclopedia from the turn of the last century. The labyrinth, naturally, is much older. It’s of […]
New species of horned, plant-eating dinosaur unveiled
Yellowstone Public Radio has a piece on the grand-looking Lokiceratops rangiformes, unearthed in Montana and “unveiled” at the Natural History Museum of Utah: Mark Loewen […]