iScience peers back through the mists of time to the Viking Age, when a saga describes a dead man being tossed down a castle’s well. Now, archaeologists are pretty sure they’ve… Read the rest “They found the body of someone from the sagas.”
Need a lift? These are hooks designed for lifting … well, whatever you need picked up.
I found them in (deep breath): The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices,… Read the rest “Science Art: Hooks, Swivels, &c. ”
The European Space Agency reports on the team who successfully decoded an “alien” transmission actually sent by a probe orbiting Mars as part of a multidisciplinary project… Read the rest “Daddy-daughter alien decoding.”
SONG: “Serotonin” (a penitential girl in red cover). (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: This isn’t based on any research; it’s a cover of a girl in red… Read the rest “SONG: “Serotonin” (a penitential girl in red cover)”
Or at least, to be a little closer to what this Current Opinion in Psychology study is really saying, social media creates a false sense of what “normal” is, amplifying every… Read the rest “Social media makes you weird.”
This is what German pastor Johann August Ephraim Goeze dubbed a “tiny water-bear” when he first spotted it among the animacules in the droplets of stagnant water under his … Read the rest “Science Art: Kleiner Wasserbär, 1773”
Science Alert looks at some pretty interesting findings from Anglia Ruskin University researchers on the effects music can have on human physiology… especially in the brain, and… Read the rest “Music can be medicine – especially for dementia.”
I’m not sure what to make of this, other than that it’s a worm that somehow feeds on or otherwise inconveniences tigers and monkeys. So I suppose it’s a tropical or subtropical… Read the rest “Science Art: Parasites: a parasitical worm, shown much enlarged, with its hosts, by J. Svoboda after L.W. Sambon.”
Science Daily reports on simple organisms called “comb jellies” (a.k.a. “ctenophores”) that have a weird way to overcome physical trauma. If two or more of … Read the rest “Two creatures can become one.”
Ars Technica salutes NOAA hurricane scientist Peter Dodge, who underwent his 387th storm “penetration” aboard an airplane flying into Category 5 Hurricane Milton …… Read the rest “Peter Dodge’s final cyclone.”
This is an artist’s concept of a space probe orbiting Europa, the icy moon of Jupiter that might just hide life in the oceans miles below its frozen surface.
You can read more about the… Read the rest “Science Art: Europa Clipper, Artist’s Concept, by NASA/JPL-Caltech”
Heatmap reports on a study looking at the “long tail” of excess deaths in the wake of major hurricanes, and found that major storms are hundreds of times deadlier than anyone… Read the rest “Hurricanes are way deadlier than you might expect.”
NPR explains why the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina is ringing alarm bells across the global tech industry. Because nearly every semiconductor and solar panel… Read the rest “One massive flood hits one small town… and the computer industry quakes.”
Ars Technica writes on the psychology of the tabletop, with initial research showing promise for using role-playing games like D&D for group therapy:
… Read the rest “Roll D20 for catharsis, with a plus-2 closure bonus.”“It seems particularly useful
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