SONG: “The Russian Cuckoo Reproduces in the Midnight Sun”.
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SOURCE: Popular Science, 7 May 2018, “Russian cuckoos are taking over Alaska”, as… Read the rest “SONG: The Russian Cuckoo Reproduces in the Midnight Sun”
Nature reports on a new way to turn ship exhaust into an energy source. Dr. Jun Kang at the Korea Maritime and Ocean University in South Korea has devised a way to capture soot from diesel engines… Read the rest “Ship-exhaust power: making batteries from soot.”
Just in case you have to drive one of these, now you know where the controls are.
I like that there’s a dial labeled “Time To Go.”
Found at the NASA Johnson… Read the rest “Science Art: Mercury Spacecraft Main Instrument Panel, 1959.”
Science Daily looks at a form of cellulose – that is, like, wood, you know? – that’s been remade at the nano-level to be stronger than dragline spider silk:
… Read the rest “Bio-material stronger than steel… and spider silk.”The team headed
Nice when they’re fighting the spread of disease rather than the other way around. Science News looks into how to train giant, explosive-sniffing rats to find early signs of TB infections… Read the rest “Trained rats can detect tuberculosis.”
Scientific American recently ran a blog by Finnish psychologist and philosopher Frank Martela, who explains why Finland’s national skepticism about happiness might make them,… Read the rest “Finns aren’t happy about being named the happiest country on Earth.”
Seems a little metaphorical, but it’s really happening. Popular Science reports on a rapid influx of cuckoos from Russia literally taking over American bird populations from within… Read the rest “Russian cuckoos are taking over Alaska.”
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Jellyfish. Deep sea medusae. By Ernst Haeckel and A. Giltsch.
From Vol. 4, pt.11-13 of Report on the scientific results of the voyage of /i>H.M.S. Challenger during… Read the rest “Science Art: Ptychogena Pinnulata, 1882.”
Science Daily finds a correlation between national satisfaction and participation in the Eurovision song contest. Even if your country loses, you and your neighbors will be happier than… Read the rest “Countries in the Eurovision contest are happier overall.”
Nature reports on a water filter based on computer pioneer Alan Turing’s only biology paper that appears to clean salt out of water three times better than conventional filters: … Read the rest “Alan Turing’s idea makes water three times cleaner.”
MIT News reports on a study that turns back the clock, at least as far as intestinal cells are concerned. Mice who’ve done without food for 24 hours alter their metabolisms in such a … Read the rest “Fasting rejuvenates aging stem cells.”
Where plants come from. (And hay fever.) These are as seen through a pretty powerful microscope – magnified 500 times – and drawn by a German pharmacist and chemist living in… Read the rest “Science Art: Tab X from Ueber den Pollen by Carl Julius Fritzsche, 1837.”
Science News looks at a strange structure of matter (one we’ve discussed on here in the past) that regularly repeats itself like a crystal… but the repeated structure is in … Read the rest “Two new kinds of time crystals.”
Scientific American steps into the fast lane, unexpectedly, on the island of Redonda. People wiped out the local (invasive) populations of rats and goats, and instead of taking centuries… Read the rest “Island lizards are evolving – in one year’s time.”
I’m not sure how new this science really is – it’s pigs, by the way, not people, in case you were worried – but The Guardian is excited at the prospect of scientists… Read the rest “Disembodied brains kept alive for 36 hours.”
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