Science Art: Accipitres, Osprey, Goshawk, &c., 1889
Click to embiggen Funny I should have found this image today, right after discussing Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk (a book bloody and wonderful, […]
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15,000-year-old DNA reveals prehistoric African culture
Science magazine opens a window on the past with DNA samples from Africa’s oldest cemetery: The origins of the ancient Moroccans, known as the Iberomaurusians […]
Outperforming black holes get too big, too fast.
Science News has a metaphor for our times playing out in deep space, where we’ve been watching black holes defy expectations by getting much bigger, […]
80 percent of America is a Third-World Nation: M.I.T. Economist.
The Institute for New Economic Thinking has a rather grim look at America’s economic future (and present), courtesy of an M.I.T. economist, Professor Emeritus Peter […]
Gut bacteria drive autoimmune diseases.
Science Daily reports on a Yale study that has found that intestinal bacteria can trigger autoimmune responses (like those in lupus) – and targeting those […]
Science Art: With this electrolytic cell as little as a milligram of various heavy metals may be precisely determined, 1922
Click to embiggen Early electronics: a cell for isolating minute quantities of heavy metals, apparently by zapping a drop of a solution under a powerful […]
Jupiter’s cyclone-clusters have a geometry. They make shapes.
Science News looks over data from the Juno space probe and marvels at some of the strange things that are being revealed about the giant […]
Ancient Egyptian tattoos discovered under our noses.
Nature pulls back the veil on those smudges seen on Egyptian mummies on display for more than a century – that, it turns out, are […]
The Hidden Penguins of the Danger Islands!
Science Daily reveals a genuine lost colony… of penguins. Revealed by satellite photos of their poop. Yes, there’s a previously unknown supercolony of 1.5 million […]
Science Art: Australia’s Largest Birds, from What Bird Is That? by Neville William Cayley.
Click to embiggen Big birds haven’t changed too much since 1931. These are: Anseranas semipalmata Pelecanus conspicillatus Casuarius casuarius Cereopsis novaehollandiae Ardeotis australis Grus rubicunda […]
Pot of gold found in waterworks dig.
NLTimes.nl reports on Dutch public-works diggers who found a trove of treasure – not just scientific treasure, but a literal pot of 15th-century gold coins […]
Putting brains in rhythm to boost memory (and all sorts of other stuff)
Nature gets into the groove with a piece on oscillations – the natural flickering rhythm of brainwaves, and how flashing lights and electric zaps can […]
SONG: Let Them In (Voluntary Schistosomiasis)
SONG: “Let Them In (Voluntary Schistosomiasis)”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Science, 21 Feb 2018, “Seventeen volunteers let this worm live inside them to help defeat a […]
Science Art: The midnight sun, from Atlas zu Alex. V. Humboldt’s Kosmos, 1851.
Click to embiggen Polar bears salute the midnight sun as Arctic explorers sail to the horizon. This image is part of a page of “Cosmic […]
So these folks infect themselves with this parasitic worm to figure out how to cure this disease….
Science revisits one of my childhood nightmares (one of many blessings from frequent family visits to South Africa) with news of researchers infecting volunteers with […]