IFL Science reports on the 121-gram sample that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe collected from Asteroid Bennu — a handful of dirt that shows a wealth of chemicals necessary to form… Read the rest “Asteroid Bennu rich in ancient life-sustaining stuff.”
Reuters has what seems like a nostalgic headline from the 1800s, but no, it’s happening now. There’s an outbreak of consumption – that is, tuberculosis – underway… Read the rest “Tuberculosis in Kansas City.”
Such was science in 1925. A man in a fedora and tie, pointing at impact craters on the ground, standing next to a large rock, resting one foot on it in fact. He’s probably a geologist …… Read the rest “Science Art: Boulder ejected from Halemaumau, at Kīlauea, May 11, 1925”
Scientific American is still following the progress of the H5N1 flu virus, and finding it’s spreading more than anyone would want — especially if you happen to be a bird:
… Read the rest “Bird flu still spreading in cats.”Avian
SONG: “They Can Make It Rain Bombs” . (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: This isn’t based on any recent research. It’s a penitential cover for being late… Read the rest “SONG: They Can Make It Rain Bombs (a penitential Camper Van Chadbourne cover)”
This is an image from one of the ages before dinosaurs. I found it by looking for Anomalocaris, which was a sort of terrifying sea predator that was something like an armored cuttlefish, or… Read the rest “Science Art: Reconstrucción de Tuzoia canadensis, con Anomalocaris atrás, 2022.”
Nature reports on Chinese researchers who found a way to make the body get rid of cancer — by disguising tumors as transplanted pig organs, so the body rejects them:
… Read the rest “Tricking the immune system into attacking tumors.”Immunologist and
Science Daily has news from Colorado State chemical researchers, who’ve found an adhesive that does the work of superglue, but is “biodegradable, tunable, and reusable”… Read the rest “Sustainable superglue.”
This delightful diagram appears on a page of A New Astronomy For Beginners that also has an almanac of “Important Future Eclipses” from 1898 (January 22, East African and India)… Read the rest “Science Art: Earth’s Shadow and Penumbra in Sections, 1898.”
Nautilus looks at the long-term effects of famine — and finds that extreme hunger can affect the bodies of future generations:
… Read the rest “You are what your great-grandparents didn’t eat”To conduct their research, [Tulane pediatric nephrologist
Science News shares an analysis of the human hippocampus from a computer-designer’s standpoint, finding that though the network of brain-cell connections are relatively sparse,… Read the rest “Sparse but robust: Brains are wired to maximize memory.”
Science News puts some important context around the January 6 death of a 65-year-old Louisiana man who caught the virus from his backyard chickens:
… Read the rest “The first American to die of H5N1 avian flu”Since early 2024, there have been 66 confirmed
BBC has news of a discovery (yet to be confirmed, likely accurate) made using a combination of historical knowledge and ground-penetrating radar that shows how the technologically advanced… Read the rest “Roman battlefield (probably) discovered in the U.K.”
The word “halcyon,” meaning “calm, idyllic, happy times” came from the Greek name for these little guys, who were said to bring, well, halcyon days. I suppose… Read the rest “Science Art: Kingfisher (Ceryle alcyon Boie), 1898”
Notebook Check reports optimistically on a vanadium battery breakthrough that stands to make sodium-ion batteries, which rely on cheap minerals, a real competitor for the relatively… Read the rest “Cheaper sodium batteries are getting better.”
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