Or maybe “loner-ism.” IFL Science reports on new research showing that what might have led to the demise of Neanderthals as a distinct kind of human was the lack of a social network… Read the rest “Neanderthals died out from something like loneliness”
Relax, the spider is here to soothe you. Tampa Bay Times reported on Daniel Park, who won a state-wide science competition by using his computers to design a drug candidate for treating anxiety… Read the rest “A Florida high schooler got anxiety meds from tarantua venom.”
This is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wikipedia, which also, helpfully, says a *circular* paraboloid … Read the rest “Science Art: Paraboloide Circular 02, by Rodrigo Argenton”
Science reports on a conservation project that’s also helping some of the poorest people on the planet — villagers along the Juruá River, a western tributary of the Amazon … Read the rest “Brazilian villages make a good living protecting a giant fish”
IFL Science reports on the (beautiful) discovery of a (well-preserved) butterfly from 34 million years ago … a specimen with visible, identifiable wing patterns and veins that … Read the rest “The Earliest Emperor Butterfly”
This is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically described and illustrated, by Phillip T. Sandhurst, which you can leaf through … Read the rest “Science Art: Azimuth and Altitude Instrument, c. 1876”
BBC’s Science Focus is digging in the dirt to get inside the mystery of “dark earth,” which seems to make the Amazon as fertile as it is… though no one knows how it… Read the rest “Trees grow six times taller in strange Amazonian soil.”
This is a slide from the magic lantern shows of Clement Lindley Wragge, a popularizer of astronomy, a meteorologist, and a Theosophist mystic who died in 1922.
There’s a collection… Read the rest “Science Art: Solar Explosions, G79, by Clement Lindley Wragge.”
SONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “These roaches form exclusive long-term relationships after eating… Read the rest “SONG: We Ate Each Other’s Wings”
Really, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1.
“CNSA” is the China National Space Administration – this… Read the rest “Science Art: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap, by Andrea Luck”
IFL Science looks back in time, studying handaxes made by Homo erectus from unlikely materials like crystals or fossils … which seem likely to have been created for religious reasons,… Read the rest “The sacred stone axes hunted cosmic game”
Science Adviser looks at medical advice given by an optometrist on a contact lens:
… Read the rest “Diagnosed by your contact lens”When your optometrist asks you to look through a machine at the red hot air balloon in the distance and warns
Mashable is one of the outlets that reported on the naming of a newly identified lunar crater by the astronauts of the Artemis mission… one of the most moving stories from this voyage… Read the rest “The Carroll Crater”
This is a line drawing of the Apollo mission’s lunar module reaching the Moon, staying a while, and then coming back home.
It’s a few decades old now. I think we’re getting… Read the rest “Science Art: Earth-moon Relationship MSC, HOUSTON, TX”
Not the people; the country. Techcrunch reports on a European government switching operating systems to avoid relying on U.S. tech:
… Read the rest “France ditches Windows for Linux”Linux is an open source operating system that is free
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