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Shark-tracking drones over Australian beaches.

25 November 2015 grant 0

Australia’s ABC News has us watching the skies to see shark-tracking flying robots (and drum lines to catch-and-release sharks):

Primary Industries Minister Niall Blair has announced

… Read the rest “Shark-tracking drones over Australian beaches.”

A bionic rose, for electronic lovers – growing circuitry inside.

24 November 2015 grant 0

Nature reports on the creation of a rose implanted with electronic circuits:

Researchers at Linköping University have created bionic roses by incorporating plant-compatible electronic

… Read the rest “A bionic rose, for electronic lovers – growing circuitry inside.”

SONG: “Jump, Jump, Jump.”

23 November 2015 grant 0

SONG: “Jump, Jump, Jump”.

ARTIST: grant.

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.””

Science Art: New invented Machine, for deepning and cleansing Docks, &c., 1775.

22 November 2015 grant 0

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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.”

Parasitic worm boosts human fertility.

20 November 2015 grant 0

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.”

14 sided dice. They found an ancient board game that uses those.

19 November 2015 grant 0

Live Science has some interesting photos and coverage of a new discovery of a very old board game:

Pieces from a mysterious board game that hasn’t been played for 1,500 years were discovered

… Read the rest “14 sided dice. They found an ancient board game that uses those.”

If you’re looking at a plant in a museum, there’s a better than 50% chance it’s named wrong.

17 November 2015 grant 0

Motherboard checks out the state of our nomenclature, and the findings are not good:

n a study published on Monday in the journal Current Biology, researchers from Oxford University and

… Read the rest “If you’re looking at a plant in a museum, there’s a better than 50% chance it’s named wrong.”

SONG: All Praise Black Ice

16 November 2015 grant 0

SONG: “All Praise Black Ice”.

ARTIST: grant.

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”

Science Art: Taf. V: Feuer-Salamander by Bruno Dürigen.

15 November 2015 grant 0

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Fire salamanders.

They don’t look so hot.

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Give yourself worms. Your immune system will thank you.

13 November 2015 grant 0

Scientific American finds that we really do need to get some worms to stay healthy:

At one point in the not too distant past we had three lines of defense against disease: the immune system,

… Read the rest “Give yourself worms. Your immune system will thank you.”

Quit Facebook. You’ll be happier. (Science says so.)

12 November 2015 grant 0

The aptly named Huh magazine sums up a Danish study that found people who leave Facebook feel measurably better about life:

They took a group of 1,095 Facebook users and split them into two

… Read the rest “Quit Facebook. You’ll be happier. (Science says so.)”

Ice Volcanoes of Pluto!

10 November 2015 grant 0

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:

The images show two mountains

… Read the rest “Ice Volcanoes of Pluto!”

Global warming might make the fish jump.

9 November 2015 grant 0

Nature World News reports on a little mangrove-estuary dwelling fish that adapts to warmer waters by jumping into the air to cool down:

In humid heat in tropical mangroves, tiny rivulus

… Read the rest “Global warming might make the fish jump.”

Science Art: Chemical Laboratory room. Experimental Research labs, Burroughs Wellcome and Co. Tuckahoe, New York

8 November 2015 grant 0

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Welcome to Wellcome.

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”

It’s a little reading robot for the whole wide internet.

5 November 2015 grant 0

New Scientist looks at the AI that’s been assigned the unenviable task of reading every scientific paper online and finding the important ones:

Semantic Scholar, which launches

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