Ancient megafarm found in Michigan.
PhysOrg reports on an archaeological discovery in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, which seems to have been the site of a 1,000-year-old Native American farming complex more […]
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The temple as refuge … for endangered species.
Nature reports on a study from China that found thousands of endangered trees growing on the grounds of religious monuments across the country: It is […]
Science Art: Pterophorus pentadactyla MHNT, by Didier Descouens
This is an image of a white plume moth, a photograph taken of a specimen in the Muséum de Toulouse in August of 2011. The […]
Science Art: Turbines and Pumps, Manchester, 1882.
This is a waterwork as the Industrial Revolution hit full swing. It’s the final image in a book I’ve used here before, A practical treatise […]
SONG: Hyperfocus
SONG: “Hyperfocus”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Something in The Back of Your Eye Could Reveal Whether You Have ADHD,” Science Alert, […]
ADHD diagnosed by looking deeply into your eyes.
Science Alert carries news of a Korean research project that used AI to study images of the fundus, an area of the back of the […]
Painkiller outsmarts opioids.
Science Daily reports on Duke researchers who have created a new class of painkiller that experiments show is as effective as opioids at eliminating pain […]
Science Art: Hoplocampa minuta, Plommonstekel Ugglan, 1920.
“A kind of sawfly living on plum trees,” according to the Wikimedia Commons gallery of images from Nordisk familjebok. They’re considered a pest — the […]
SONG: Bed Chem (a penitential Sabrina Carpenter cover)
SONG: “Bed Chem” (a penitential Sabrina Carpenter cover). (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This wasn’t based on any scientific research. It’s a cover of […]
Science Art: Cardiac Devices, Medtronic
This is a poster snapped in my cardiologist’s (actually, electrophysiologist’s) office. These are all machines that are put into your heart to track its beating […]
Growing worry over “ChatGPT-induced psychosis”
Futurism reports on anecdotal evidence of ChatGPT conversing with people in a human-like way and … drawing them further and further into an authoritative-sounding, real-feeling […]
NASA JPL boss quits
The Register reports on the director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory suddenly stepping down for “personal reasons”: During the November 2024 staff cuts, Leshin cautioned: […]
Pulsars have an invisible halo
Physics Magazine takes a look at the radiation surrounding those high-energy stars that zoot-zoot-zoot out in regularly recurring intervals (stars with a pulse, in other […]
Science Art: MRO Fairing Installation, 2005.
On a fiberglass sailboat, “fairing” is a thin coat of epoxy meant to smooth out all tiny bumps and creases that sanding can’t catch in […]
Science Art: Iceland’s Coast Shows Hints of Spring, March 2024
A photo from the NASA PACE Ocean Sciences gallery. The Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem mission is a satellite observatory created by Goddard Space Flight […]