National Geographic reports on China’s boom in marine parks, including a new program to breed killer whales in captivity:
… Read the rest “America stopped breeding orcas; China just started.”The Chimelong Group, one of the country’s biggest amusement
Science News reveals the unappetizing trick of a newly discovered gecko species. The lizard sheds its large scales to wriggle out of predators’ mouths:
… Read the rest “Scale-shedding gecko a nasty mouthful for predators”All species of Geckolepis
This is Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov (or call-sign “Ruby”), the first man to die in space. He’d been denied admission to the space program twice … Read the rest “Science Art: Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov, Voskhod 1, 4-kopek stamp, 1964”
Science Daily sniffs out how weather patterns affect the shape of our family’s noses:
… Read the rest “Our noses were shaped by the climate.”“We are interested in recent human evolution and what explains the evident variation
PhysOrg reports on the discovery that sharks aren’t quite the “lone wolves of the sea” that they seem. In fact, sharks form social networks and share strategies to avoid… Read the rest “Sharks are teaming up to outwit us.”
Science Daily finds that those who give back also seem to be getting back – because people who volunteer for causes are in better health than the rest of us:
… Read the rest “Volunteers are healthier. (They also tend to be richer.)”Researchers of Ghent University
A train! A big ol’ train!
This image is one of many found in H.A.V. Bulleid’s Master Builders of Steam, a book about those big ol’ engines moving big ol’… Read the rest “Science Art: Longitudinal Section of “Star” Class Four-Cylinder 4-6-0, by AJ Creswell, 1963.”
Science Daily takes time out to think about our thinking parts, which are doing 10 times more thinking than we previously thought:
… Read the rest “Our brains are 10 times busier than we thought.”The research focused on the structure and function of dendrites,
Nature describes how “dirty diamonds” (and other delights) can be used to make crystals that “pulse” without using any energy:
… Read the rest ““It’s still fricking weird”: Physicist on the creation of time crystals.”The name sounds like a prop from
Scientific American prepares us for our cybernetic overlords with a machine that knows when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em… how to call a bluff and how to read a strong… Read the rest “Chess, go… and now, a computer has beaten humans at POKER.”
Science looks at skulls from Eastern China that appear to be the remains of the little-known Denisovan prehistoric people:
… Read the rest “We might have found some more archaic Denisovan people in China.”Since their discovery in 2010, the extinct ice age humans called
From The Wonderland of Science. A children’s book. From 1947.
This is what little kids were reading then.
Not that our culture is in decline or anything.
(The cover is brilliant, too.)… Read the rest “Science Art: Saturated Hydro-Carbon, by B.E. Pike, 1947”
Science reports on the telescope that hopes to see the event horizon of the giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way:
… Read the rest “Looking inside our galaxy’s biggest black hole”Next month, astronomers will harness radio telescopes across the
Eurekalert has good news from the southeastern Atlantic. Shark populations are getting back to where they should be for a healthy ocean:
… Read the rest “American sharks are recovering (in the Atlantic, at least).”Scientists estimate that over-fishing of sharks
Nature reports on the discovery of a single, brain-encircling “crown of thorns” neuron that might be the seat of consciousness:
… Read the rest “Is this one, long neuron where consciousness comes from?”Christof Koch, president of the Allen Institute
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