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”
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.”
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.)”
“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.
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.”
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.”
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”
Popular Science introduces us to “The Plimp,” a vehicle that hopes to be a nearly unsinkable aircraft:
… Read the rest “Half-blimp, half-plane flying machine built with safety in mind.”With a rigid, winged body held underneath a massive helium-containing
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:
… Read the rest “Laugh at the T. rex’s tiny arms… as they shred your frail body just like they were designed to.”[T]he roughly
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:
… Read the rest “Killing old age by killing off undying cells.”In a 2011
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”
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.”
SONG: “Heaven is Our Home”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE:Tiangong-1: Chinese space station will crash to Earth within months,” The Guardian, 13 Oct 2017, as used in the post… Read the rest “SONG: “Heaven is Our Home””
Popular Science gets the skinny on a super-thin satellite that cleans up the metal messes we leave in orbit:
… Read the rest “A spacecraft thinner than a human hair can clean up space junk”This past spring, the NIAC awarded researchers at The Aerospace Corporation
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