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China’s ready to make first contact with aliens.

22 November 2017 grant 0

The Atlantic has a great piece on the E.T.-hunting radio telescope that China just built (it’s twice the size of Arecibo) with a little input from China’s greatest living science… Read the rest “China’s ready to make first contact with aliens.”

“Brain training” video game beats dementia in trials.

20 November 2017 grant 0

Indiana University psychology researchers have definitely proved, after 10 years of study, that a particular kind of video game, as part of a brief brain-training regimen, can keep age-related… Read the rest ““Brain training” video game beats dementia in trials.”

Science Art: Jupiter: A New Point of View, by Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran

19 November 2017 grant 0

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This is a sidelong look at the king of planets from NASA’s Image of the Day gallery.

The NASA folks say:

This striking Jovian vista was created by citizen scientists

… Read the rest “Science Art: Jupiter: A New Point of View, by Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran”

Spanking makes their behavior worse

17 November 2017 grant 0

Science Daily has more on the Texas and Virginia researchers who looked over 12,112 kids’ experiences growing up and concluded spanking – free of all other factors –… Read the rest “Spanking makes their behavior worse”

We just sent a message to a habitable planet.

16 November 2017 grant 0

New Scientist explains that the recipients, if there are any, could answer in about 25 years – enough time for a radio message to travel the 12 light years to GJ 273b, a habitable planet… Read the rest “We just sent a message to a habitable planet.”

FDA OKs putting tracking devices in schizophrenia pills. (Yes. They really did.)

14 November 2017 grant 0

New York Times has the latest high-water mark in our society’s ever-rising tide of irony – an antipsychotic medication that, as paranoid as this sounds, really does tell the… Read the rest “FDA OKs putting tracking devices in schizophrenia pills. (Yes. They really did.)”

Science Art: Representations of the Braid Groups by Nancy Scherich, overall winner, Dance Your Ph.D. 2017.

12 November 2017 grant 0

“A representation is faithful if it has only one braid in its kernel.”

So, this is doctorate-level mathematics rendered as interpretative dance, and that is not a joke.

It’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Representations of the Braid Groups by Nancy Scherich, overall winner, Dance Your Ph.D. 2017.”

Alzheimer’s protein can travel from the blood up to the brain.

8 November 2017 grant 0

Science News shares new research about how Alzheimer’s can happen – and, maybe, how we can prevent it. Those amyloid proteins that build up in the brain and cause all the cognitive… Read the rest “Alzheimer’s protein can travel from the blood up to the brain.”

Florida Man kills Clovis-First Hypothesis – with a few buddies on boats.

6 November 2017 grant 0

Ars Technica sums up research that kills the idea that the first Americans walked over Arctic ice from Russia. Instead, it really looks like humans had already been arriving by boat –… Read the rest “Florida Man kills Clovis-First Hypothesis – with a few buddies on boats.”

Science Art: Ordo Fecundus (Steinfurz und Flidermaus), 1553

5 November 2017 grant 0

Taken from ‘Icones Animalium Quadruped Viviparorum et Oviparorum’ by Conrad Gessner ( 1516-1565 )Click to embiggen slightly

An owl and a bat, in German and Latin, as presented by Conrad Gessner in Icones Animalium Quadruped Viviparorum et Oviparorum.

This may have been more timely on… Read the rest “Science Art: Ordo Fecundus (Steinfurz und Flidermaus), 1553”

Half-blimp, half-plane flying machine built with safety in mind.

3 November 2017 grant 0

Popular Science introduces us to “The Plimp,” a vehicle that hopes to be a nearly unsinkable aircraft:

With a rigid, winged body held underneath a massive helium-containing

… Read the rest “Half-blimp, half-plane flying machine built with safety in mind.”

Laugh at the T. rex’s tiny arms… as they shred your frail body just like they were designed to.

1 November 2017 grant 0

Science News brings a new(-ish) perspective on the atrophied forelimbs of Tyrannosaurus rex. Those little arms were perfectly built for close-quarters slashing of prey:

[T]he roughly

… Read the rest “Laugh at the T. rex’s tiny arms… as they shred your frail body just like they were designed to.”

Killing old age by killing off undying cells.

30 October 2017 grant 0

Nature‘s report seems backwards, but there it is. Researchers have found a key to reversing old age is to kill off certain decrepit cells that never reproduce and never die:

In a 2011

… Read the rest “Killing old age by killing off undying cells.”

Science Art: When (Neutron) Stars Collide, by NASA

30 October 2017 grant 0

from https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/iotd.htmlClick to embiggen

There’s not much information on the NASA Image of the Day site explaining how this visualization was made. It’s meant to show what it looks like in space when… Read the rest “Science Art: When (Neutron) Stars Collide, by NASA”

Quickie-prescription startup wants to market stage-fright pills.

26 October 2017 grant 0

Stat News has some weird news at the intersection of business and pharmacology – a new company wants to sell a beta-blocker used for blood pressure and arrhythmia as an anti-anxiety… Read the rest “Quickie-prescription startup wants to market stage-fright pills.”

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