Washington Post reports on a swallowable, unfolding robot for retrieving the little batteries that little kids swallow:
… Read the rest “You swallow this pork origami robot, see… no, really.”Across the United States, a child swallows a battery once every
Nature goes EXXXTREEEEME!!! in the search for evidence of water on Mars. And boy did they find evidence. Seems like a couple billion years ago, meteorite impacts unleashed cosmic-sized… Read the rest “Water on Mars? TSUNAMIS ON MARS!”
Nature reports on the first safety study, published in The Lancet, of psilocybin mushrooms as a potent therapy for drug-resistant long-term depression:
… Read the rest “Magic mushrooms against chronic depression.”Researchers from Imperial College
Two rays and a shark… and an egg case… from Buffon’s Natural History of the globe, and of man; beasts, birds, fishes, reptiles, and insects, a book with a long title compiled… Read the rest “Science Art: Buffon’s Natural History, Taf. 7,”
The American Lawyer reports on Ross, the newest legal mind to join Baker & Hostetler – despite being an artificial intelligence programmed to analyze bankruptcy law and talk… Read the rest “First firm to hire a virtual attorney. It’ll be handling bankruptcies….”
From the Facebook desk of archaeologist Katie Rask (seconded by others) comes the following correction:
… Read the rest “…or maybe not.”From the world renowned Maya specialist and Linda Schele Professor of Mesoamerican
All kinds of news outlets have picked up this Le Journal de Montreal story on William Gadoury, a teenager who noticed that Mayan constellations lined up with their ancient cities…… Read the rest “So, a 15-year-old just discovered a Mayan city… without leaving home.”
Are we in for weather? Yes, always. Good or bad, there’s always some kind of weather. What kind? This diagram will show you.
I found it in the David Rumsey Historical… Read the rest “Science Art: Diagram of Meteorology, James Reynolds and John Emslie.”
BBC has the final outcome of the Boaty McBoatface saga – the research vessel will be named after documentarist Sir David Attenborough, but will have a very special remote submersible… Read the rest “David Attenborough… and Subby McSubface”
Nature has followed history’s longest-cultured human embryos:
… Read the rest “Human embryos grown for two weeks in lab.”Developmental biologists have grown human embryos in the lab for up to 13 days after fertilization, shattering
Long-time science journalist Joe Palca (NPR, Science, Nature) will be answering questions at a Reddit AMA around 1pm today.
If you’ve got a question you need to have answered about… Read the rest “Go ask Joe Palca a question.”
Reuters reports on the goal being set for the world to see – one of China’s top space officials says they’ll put a human on the moon by 2036:
… Read the rest “China’s going to land a person on the moon.”China must “raise its
It’s Beltane today, May Day, a day traditionally celebrated with bonfires. Here are some smaller flames, but no less fiery.
This is a photo illustrating how, as … Read the rest “Science Art: Bunsen Burner Flame Types, by Artura Jana Fijalkowski.”
Wired investigates an organism – not even an animal, doesn’t even have internal organs or nerves, much less a brain – that still somehow learns to avoid unpleasant things… Read the rest “How can slime mold learn? But it does….”
So first, there’s a dwarf planet called Makemake. And now, says Space.com, Hubble found out that it has a moon:
… Read the rest “A new moon in the outer solar system.”Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered
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