Australia’s ABC News has us watching the skies to see shark-tracking flying robots (and drum lines to catch-and-release sharks):
… Read the rest “Shark-tracking drones over Australian beaches.”Primary Industries Minister Niall Blair has announced
Nature reports on the creation of a rose implanted with electronic circuits:
… Read the rest “A bionic rose, for electronic lovers – growing circuitry inside.”Researchers at Linköping University have created bionic roses by incorporating plant-compatible electronic
SONG: “Jump, Jump, Jump”.
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SOURCE: Based on “Fish and Adaptation: Mangrove Fish Jumps into Air in Warming Water”, Nature World News, 21 Oct 2015,… Read the rest “SONG: “Jump, Jump, Jump.””
In 1775, Pennsylvania Magazine wanted its readers to be up to date on the very latest in technological advances, including this machine for… well, it seems to be … Read the rest “Science Art: New invented Machine, for deepning and cleansing Docks, &c., 1775.”
The BBC has me wondering just how many worm-babies there are out there (like blackout babies or blizzard babies). Because being infected with this parasitic worm increases your chance … Read the rest “Parasitic worm boosts human fertility.”
Live Science has some interesting photos and coverage of a new discovery of a very old board game:
… Read the rest “14 sided dice. They found an ancient board game that uses those.”Pieces from a mysterious board game that hasn’t been played for 1,500 years were discovered
Motherboard checks out the state of our nomenclature, and the findings are not good:
… Read the rest “If you’re looking at a plant in a museum, there’s a better than 50% chance it’s named wrong.”n a study published on Monday in the journal Current Biology, researchers from Oxford University and
SONG: “All Praise Black Ice”.
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SOURCE: Based on “New Horizons Finds Blue Skies and Water Ice on Pluto”, NASA.gov, 8 Oct 2015, as used in the post … Read the rest “SONG: All Praise Black Ice”
Scientific American finds that we really do need to get some worms to stay healthy:
… Read the rest “Give yourself worms. Your immune system will thank you.”At one point in the not too distant past we had three lines of defense against disease: the immune system,
The aptly named Huh magazine sums up a Danish study that found people who leave Facebook feel measurably better about life:
… Read the rest “Quit Facebook. You’ll be happier. (Science says so.)”They took a group of 1,095 Facebook users and split them into two
Nature reports that the New Horizons probe has snapped photos of cratered mountains that bear the hallmarks of volcanoes that erupt with ice, rather than lava:
… Read the rest “Ice Volcanoes of Pluto!”The images show two mountains
Nature World News reports on a little mangrove-estuary dwelling fish that adapts to warmer waters by jumping into the air to cool down:
… Read the rest “Global warming might make the fish jump.”In humid heat in tropical mangroves, tiny rivulus
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They’ve got all kinds of wonderful things in their image gallery, including this marvelous experimenter in an even more marvelous experimental… Read the rest “Science Art: Chemical Laboratory room. Experimental Research labs, Burroughs Wellcome and Co. Tuckahoe, New York”
New Scientist looks at the AI that’s been assigned the unenviable task of reading every scientific paper online and finding the important ones:
… Read the rest “It’s a little reading robot for the whole wide internet.”Semantic Scholar, which launches
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