The Guardian has an optimistic story out of central China, with news that the baiji – the Yangzi River dolphin, one of the oldest aquatic mammal species in the world – might be… Read the rest ““Goddess of the Yangzi” might not be extinct after all.”
Nature gives us a new context for exploring Mars, with NASA landing a rugged rover or orbital observer equipped with “generic” scientific equipment so that lots of people … Read the rest “The Martian Timeshare”
You’d think after the week I’ve had, I’d be sick of looking at meteorological imagery. But no. This stuff is beautiful, and meaningful, and sometimes… Read the rest “Science Art: GFS Model Forecasts Moisture over the Atlantic, Aug 2016”
Nature finds hope for the future in war-torn Syria, where a seed-bank dedicated to preserve our ancient plants (which could save our crops from climate change) is being rebuilt in Lebanon… Read the rest “Rescuing the seeds of Aleppo”
The Guardian and physicist Jon Butterworth are looking at something unexpected that the Spitzer Space Telescope has noticed. Galaxies are put together in a way that could explain a few … Read the rest “Dark matter is… doing something strange.”
Because, according to National Geographic, we didn’t remember him right the first time. Or at least we attribute a heck of a lot to the real-life castaway Alexander Selkirk that really… Read the rest “Re-remembering Robinson Crusoe.”
Sigmund Riefler was a physicist and precision clockmaker. He also created this, a precision barometer, or, rather, a barometer connected to a precision clock.
Science Daily reassures us that at least we seem to be doing *something* right. This generation is spending more time with our kids than parents did 50 years ago:
… Read the rest “We spend more time with kids than our grandparents did.”Mothers — and fathers
Nature (and New Scientist) have been covering the developing story about a healthy baby boy born from genetic material supplied by three parents:
… Read the rest “A three-parent baby born in Mexico.”Nature:
Researchers at the New Hope Fertility
Growing up interacting with fish called “grunts,” this doesn’t come as a huge surprise, but it’s still kind of cool. New Scientist captures the chorus of fish… Read the rest “The sun has risen, the fish are singing….”
The book Identification anthropométrique : instructions signalétiques is Alphonse Bertillon‘s guide for identifying criminal suspects.
These ear dimensions… Read the rest “Science Art: Oreille schematique, from Identification anthropométrique : instructions signalétiques, 1893.”
SONG: “Gaia (1,000 Times)”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “Milky Way mapper: 6 ways the Gaia spacecraft will change astronomy,” Nature, 09 Sep 2016, as used in the … Read the rest “SONG: Gaia (1,000 Times)”
PhysOrg looks at three studies that suggest humans, for the most part, all came out of Africa in one migration more than 100 millennia ago:
… Read the rest “We (mostly) came out of Africa together.”The genetic ancestry of people living outside Africa
Times Higher Education reveals the machines are moving beyond physical work and simple sorting, and can now fool academic gatekeepers with their composition skills… in article… Read the rest “Robot writer fools journals’ peer-review system.”
Science Daily reports on Swedish scientists who’ve found we can inherit “memories” of a heart attack:
… Read the rest “We can inherit the memory of heart attacks.”In the current [Uppsala University] study, the researchers
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