SONG: Around This Mystery
SONG: “Around This Mystery”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE:Octlantis is a just-discovered underwater city engineered by octopuses,” Quartz, 17 Sep 2017, as used in the … Read the rest “SONG: Around This Mystery”
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It’s a comet. It’s an asteroid. It’s twins. It’s… weird.
Science Daily struggles to define a strange thing the Hubble telescope found between Jupiter and Mars:
… Read the rest “It’s a comet. It’s an asteroid. It’s twins. It’s… weird.”With the help of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a German-led group of astronomers
The social life of octopuses.
Quark goes deep to plumb the mysteries of the cephalopod city scientists have dubbed “Octlantis”:
… Read the rest “The social life of octopuses.”In Jervis Bay, off Eastern Australia, researchers recently spotted 15
The poop economy is flourishing.
Nature gets to the fundamentals of the filthy lucre we’re finding in filth:
… Read the rest “The poop economy is flourishing.”The facility is called Pivot, and its founder is Ashley Muspratt, a sanitation engineer who lived in Ghana,
Science Art: Chain Saw, US 1655856 A, Jan. 10, 1928.
Click to embiggenA patent for a device putting wood-cutting blades on a chain, so that people can cut down trees – or, in the wake of hurricanes, cut up ones that have fallen down.
Technically,… Read the rest “Science Art: Chain Saw, US 1655856 A, Jan. 10, 1928.”
Where the oceans are rising.
Nature gives us a much closer look not just at how much the ocean is rising, but where the levels will be changing most, using data from gravity-sensing satellites that show where ocean water… Read the rest “Where the oceans are rising.”
How Dan Rather taught us how to see hurricanes.
This isn’t new research, but a look back at some technological history most of us might not know. The Atlantic reminds us how a young Dan Rather put the first radar images of hurricanes… Read the rest “How Dan Rather taught us how to see hurricanes.”
Dogs know themselves (as if we didn’t know that already). By their noses.
Science Daily reports on Barnard College and Tomsk State University researchers who have looked at dogs looking at (and sniffing) themselves and found that, yep, there’s evidence… Read the rest “Dogs know themselves (as if we didn’t know that already). By their noses.”
Science Art: The Triumph Lathe, from The Watchmaker & Jeweller, Silversmith & Optician, Nov. 1, 1887.
It spins, you know.
This jewelry-making tool was once available from Messrs. H.J. Cooper & Company, on Oxford Street West.
I found it, or at least the magazine in which… Read the rest “Science Art: The Triumph Lathe, from The Watchmaker & Jeweller, Silversmith & Optician, Nov. 1, 1887.”
Dinosaur had four wings, yet could not fly.
National Geographic reveals the real-life parable of a dinosaur that, according to the evidence, had four wings, yet never flew:
… Read the rest “Dinosaur had four wings, yet could not fly.”The newly named species, Serikornis sungei, adds to the
Tiny antennas make brain implants a little more possible.
Nature explores the possibilities of, in not so many words, putting electronic receivers in our brains:
… Read the rest “Tiny antennas make brain implants a little more possible.”Metal antennas that send and receive TV signals and radio waves could soon be replaced
FDA labels Ecstasy a “breakthrough therapy,” accelerates testing.
Science magazine celebrates the fast-tracking of studies on MDMA, the once-notorious rave drug that’s now on the verge of being approved to tread PTSD and other disorders:
… Read the rest “FDA labels Ecstasy a “breakthrough therapy,” accelerates testing.”The agency
Civil War submarine mystery solved
Nature reports on researchers who have determined that the Confederate Navy’s Hunley – the first submarine to sink an enemy warship – probably sank itself when its … Read the rest “Civil War submarine mystery solved”
Science Art: Engine, by ESA
The European Space Agency has a way with names. This is in their image library as “Engine.”
The description offers little more detail: The ducted fan engine… Read the rest “Science Art: Engine, by ESA”
SONG: Frozen Atmospheres
SONG: “Frozen Atmospheres”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE:Record-shattering 2.7-million-year-old ice core reveals start of the ice ages,” Science, 15 Aug 2017, as used… Read the rest “SONG: Frozen Atmospheres”