Science Art: Saturn F-1 Engine, 1964
Our first ticket off this rock. Saturn F-1 Engine is tested at the Marshall Center in 1964. Image credit: NASA/MSFC
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You swallow this pork origami robot, see… no, really.
Washington Post reports on a swallowable, unfolding robot for retrieving the little batteries that little kids swallow: Across the United States, a child swallows a […]
Water on Mars? TSUNAMIS ON MARS!
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, […]
Magic mushrooms against chronic depression.
Nature reports on the first safety study, published in The Lancet, of psilocybin mushrooms as a potent therapy for drug-resistant long-term depression: Researchers from Imperial […]
Science Art: Buffon’s Natural History, Taf. 7,
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, […]
First firm to hire a virtual attorney. It’ll be handling bankruptcies….
The American Lawyer reports on Ross, the newest legal mind to join Baker & Hostetler – despite being an artificial intelligence programmed to analyze bankruptcy […]
…or maybe not.
From the Facebook desk of archaeologist Katie Rask (seconded by others) comes the following correction: From the world renowned Maya specialist and Linda Schele Professor […]
So, a 15-year-old just discovered a Mayan city… without leaving home.
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 […]
Science Art: Diagram of Meteorology, James Reynolds and John Emslie.
Click to embiggen vastly Are we in for weather? Yes, always. Good or bad, there’s always some kind of weather. What kind? This diagram will […]
David Attenborough… and Subby McSubface
BBC has the final outcome of the Boaty McBoatface saga – the research vessel will be named after documentarist Sir David Attenborough, but will have […]
Human embryos grown for two weeks in lab.
Nature has followed history’s longest-cultured human embryos: Developmental biologists have grown human embryos in the lab for up to 13 days after fertilization, shattering the […]
Go ask Joe Palca a question.
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 […]
China’s going to land a person on the moon.
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 […]
Science Art: Bunsen Burner Flame Types, by Artura Jana Fijalkowski.
Click to embiggen It’s Beltane today, May Day, a day traditionally celebrated with bonfires. Here are some smaller flames, but no less fiery. This is […]
How can slime mold learn? But it does….
Wired investigates an organism – not even an animal, doesn’t even have internal organs or nerves, much less a brain – that still somehow learns […]