This is a switch for “constant current” electricity to go into a building, a “A modern commercial form of this switch,” is what the book calls it.
The book in question… Read the rest “Science Art: Modern Electrical Construction, Fig. 58, 1905”
Nature reports on research that gave mice acetate, a common byproduct of digesting alcohol, glucose, or fiber… and found that it improved long-term memory — in the female … Read the rest “Better long-term memory … for females, at least.”
I have the bones of a song, but no proper lyrics. I owe you a song, and a penitential cover. Mea maxima culpa.
Unblinking, the lidless eye gazes out from its skull, unseeing.
I found this anatomical image while browsing through the “Featured Images” collection on Wikimedia Commons… Read the rest “Science Art: Eye orbit anatomy anterior 2, by Patrick Lynch.”
PhysOrg considers the flight paths of honeybees in three dimensions and finds that the insects are even more precise than anyone imagined:
… Read the rest “Honey bees navigate VERY precisely.”A team from the University of Freiburg led by neurobiologist
PhysOrg reports on a very old tool – does it count as a power tool? At any rate, it was made in Egypt thousands of years ago, rediscovered in the 1920s and then, on re-examination now, … Read the rest “A drill older than the pharoahs”
This is an image from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, a German natural history museum, where they have a skeleton of a stegosaurus relative unearthed in Tendaguru, Tanzania.
It’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Kentrosaurus aethiopicus, by H. Zell.”
NPR shared the story of Lazarus Kgasi, who started as a laborer but fell in love with the science — and is now helping shape what we know of life’s origins:
… Read the rest “Black South African digger becomes paleontology star”This is the story of how
An image from an ad from the Jan/Feb 1974 issue of the Journal for the Society for Informational Display.
The edition is pretty light on scientific illustrations and pretty heavy on flowcharts… Read the rest “Science Art: Cathode Ray Tubes, 1974”
Science reports on a discovery researchers are putting up there with GLP-1 anti-obesity drugs. In this case, snakes can survive long, and foodless, periods of hibernation by getting rid… Read the rest “Snakes can fast because they got rid of a hormone.”
A University of Pennsylvania grad researcher has found that teenagers who smoke tobacco are at higher risk for addiction to morphine, heroin, or fentanyl, because early nicotine exposure… Read the rest “Teenage cigarettes lead to grown-up opioid trouble.”
Is it strange how much this resembles a 1950s comic-book cover about dashing flying saucer pilots? And we made it real, and we sent it to space piloted by remote control computers with a crew… Read the rest “Science Art: Curiosity Approaching Mars, Artist’s Concept, 2012”
Sci Tech Daily investigates a new treatment for arthritis that can not just stop joint damage but actually reverse it by blocking chemicals associated with aging … even in young patients… Read the rest “Age-blocking injection rebuilds knee cartilage.”
Well, good at living a long time, at least. Nature reports on a study that finds about 55 percent of the factors that grant a long life come from your inherited DNA:
… Read the rest “Long life really can come down to good ancestors.”The findings should aid in
Science Adviser reports on the discovery (or rediscovery) of a fossil that is not just a new species, not just a new class, order, nor phylum of life. It’s so different from animals,… Read the rest “Fossil reveals new *kingdom* of life.”
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