Ice Volcanoes of Pluto!
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 […]
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Global warming might make the fish jump.
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 […]
Science Art: Chemical Laboratory room. Experimental Research labs, Burroughs Wellcome and Co. Tuckahoe, New York
Click to embiggen Welcome to Wellcome. They’ve got all kinds of wonderful things in their image gallery, including this marvelous experimenter in an even more […]
It’s a little reading robot for the whole wide internet.
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, […]
DIY Internet: How Orca Island, WA, became their own provider.
Ars Technica has an inspirational story of some folks who decided they could do a better job than their “professional” ISP: Around that time, CenturyLink […]
Super-healthy tomatoes showcase genetic meddling’s sunny side.
Scientific American celebrates a bumper crop of super-healthy tomatoes, thanks to genetic modification: A single tomato of the new variety contains the same amount of […]
Everything you know about low-fat dieting is wrong.
Nature reveals that low-fat diets don’t really help you lose weight: An analysis of 53 weight-loss studies that included more than 68,000 people has concluded […]
Science Art: Idolo de ignota localidad, Idolo de Arica, Idolo de ignota localidad.
Click to embiggen. Three idols, from the Anales del Museo Nacional de Chile, published between 1892 and 1910. I found them in the Biodiversity Heritage […]
Weird stuff: Better for your brain and your waistline.
Scientific American reveals that the stuff you really weren’t expecting – the “unusual, the jarring, the culturally shocking” – can improve your cognitive ability and […]
Step aside HIV. Tuberculosis is now the deadliest infectious disease.
New Scientist reveals that, worldwide, more people died from TB than from AIDS: This year marks the deadline for the Millennium Development Goal of cutting […]
Depression could be an immune problem.
Medical XPress examines a link between major depression and immune-system cells in the brain called “microglia”: In a groundbreaking theoretical review paper published in the […]
Science Art: A Querschnitt durch die Wurzelspitze…, 1905.
Click to embiggen The translation of “a Querschnitt durch die Wurzelspitze von Equisetum hiemale dicht unterhalb der Scheitelzelle nach Naegeli und Leitgeb,” according to Google, […]
The meanest, most-quickly-intensifying hurricane in the Western Hemisphere.
Dr. Jeff Masters at Weather Underground has a lot of superlatives for Hurricane Patricia, the Category 5 storm that leapt up out of nowhere to […]
No song today.
Laryngitis is a heck of thing, especially when combined with an antibiotic allergy. Music to resume shortly.
There’s a new giant tortoise species in the Galapagos.
Science Daily reports that where scientists had thought there was only one kind of giant tortoise, there were actually two.