I’m sure if you’re reading this, you’re already regularly checking out Bad Astronomy, but just in case you missed it, Phil Plait is asking a pretty fruitful question… Read the rest “Why *is* there a huge mountain on Ceres?”
Science Daily pores over the mysterious discovery of a collection of non-functional metal weapons from more than 2,600 years ago:
… Read the rest “Mock weapons from the Iron Age”Discovered in 2009, the site known as Mudhmar East consists
The Times of Israel reports on an unusual discovery – a small seal (as in wax-and-envelope, not as in hunted-in-Arctic) that belonged to a powerful and influential woman of ancient… Read the rest “A remarkable woman, 2,500 years ago.”
Amid news of massive layoffs and financial uncertainty, New Scientist sheds a ray of hope on the Middle Kingdom, reporting on China’s new five-year plan for a greener tomorrow:
… Read the rest “China goes green.”This
BBC has hope for the wild men of the woods. A new population study has found more than double the number of Sumatran orangutans as expected:
… Read the rest “More orangutans than we thought.”The latest estimate puts the population at about
This is a big horn for making big noise. It’s the way the European Space Agency tests how satellites stand up to the noise of a rocket launch… which, of course,… Read the rest “Science Art: LEAF Sound Horn, by ESA – A. Le Floc’h”
Stat goes to the front-line laboratories in French Polynesia, where scientists are beating back mosquitos in revolutionary ways:
… Read the rest “At Marlon Brando’s island, the war on mosquitos is being won.”Hervé Bossin and his team have released more than 1 million
The Atlantic investigates the social movement behind America’s recent surprise win at the international Math Olympiad:
… Read the rest “Why are American kids getting so good at higher math?”You wouldn’t see it in most classrooms, you wouldn’t know
Washington Post reports on an impossible-seeming thing – a fossil that’s not just of hard tissue like teeth and bones (and shells), but that reveals the structures of something… Read the rest “Fossilized nerves.”
Nature cuts my last potential for productivity to the quick with news that researchers have made mouse sperm in a dish:
… Read the rest “So we’ve made sperm. No man necessary.”Researchers in China say that they have discovered a way to make rudimentary
I don’t have the math language to explain what’s going on here very well. It’s a diagram of the Rastrigin function, which is, ahem, “a typical… Read the rest “Science Art: Contour plot of Rastrigin’s function in two variables, by Tos”
NPR’s Skunk Bear turns us on (in general, but specifically with this) observing the outsized influence of unanticipated consequences – singling out for awards all the times… Read the rest “Celebrating happy accidents with The Golden Mole”
SONG: “Janssen.”
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Scientists just analyzed the atmosphere of a ‘super-Earth’ for the first time,” Washington Post, 16 Feb.… Read the rest “SONG: Janssen”
Nature reveals a new generation of Milgram experiments – the 50-year-old psychological tests that had subjects electrocute (or believe they were electrocuting) other people … Read the rest “Modern Milgram Experiments: plumbing the horror of only following orders”
Such a winning smile….
Neopteroplax was, at one point, something like a crocodile of salamanders – an amphibian about 3 meters long (that’s nigh onto… Read the rest “Science Art: Figure 4, Neopteroplax conemaughensis, 1963”
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