In 1930, this picture… or rather, the picture with the inscriptions beside it… had never before been published. And the inscriptions are rather interesting.… Read the rest “Plate LXXVII: The First Picture of an American Butterfly from The Butterfly Book by W.J. Holland, 1930 edition.”
SONG: “I Am Sailing.”
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE:Based on “LightSail”, sail.planetary.org, retrieved 13 May 2015, as used in the post “A solar sail unfurling.… Read the rest “SONG: I Am Sailing”
Smithsonian reveals a new way to heal the easily-broken bones of the elderly – by exposing the fractures to younger blood:
… Read the rest “Young blood heals old bones. (Literally. Go figure.)”“The traditional concept is that as you get older, your bone
Science Daily paints a picture of the very first snakes… before they lost their feet:
… Read the rest “Snakes had ankles a long, long time ago.”The study, led by Yale University, USA, analyzed fossils, genes, and anatomy from 73 snake and
Nature opens the door to home-brewed heroin – just add water and sugar:
… Read the rest “Engineered yeast grows opiates at home.”A paper published on 18 May in Nature Chemical Biology reports the creation of a yeast strain containing the
Science Daily throws our sense of things slightly out of whack with news that there’s a fish out there that’s entirely warm-blooded:
… Read the rest “The moonfish is warm-blooded.”New research by NOAA Fisheries has revealed
Jaws!
Pieter Camper was a fossil collector, and in 1786, he drew this jaw he’d acquired. He thought it belonged to a toothed whale. Another collector had a similar… Read the rest “Science Art: Os Maxillaires Fossiles, by Pieter Camper.”
Science Daily goes deep, deep into our innermost selves and reveals what a brain looks like the moment a mind changes:
… Read the rest “We can watch your mind changing. This is what a decision looks like.”The findings result from experiments led by electrical engineering
Bill Nye, more than just an enthusiast on the TV, has gotten a group together – part of The Planetary Society – to test a solar sailer spacecraft next week:
… Read the rest “A solar sail unfurling. Not sometime in the unspecified future – *next week*.”LightSail™ is a citizen-funded
Nature has more on a cell phone gizmo that’s changing how medicine is done in remote places:
… Read the rest “Mobile phone microscope saving lives (and eyes) in Africa”In a study in Science Translational Medicine on 6 May, bioengineer Daniel Fletcher of the
This is a naked woman, as seen in 1911 by a German medical expert. The book’s title translates to “The Woman As Family Doctor,” and it’s pretty much a home health… Read the rest “Science Art: From Die Frau als Hausärztin by Anna Fischer-Dückelmann, 1911”
Nature measures the price of poverty, and the effect it has on children. A bi-coastal study has found that poverty shrinks kids’ brains from birth:
… Read the rest “Poverty shrinks kids’ brains.”…A team led by neuroscientists
Science Nordic hails a medieval discovery in the heart of Odense, Denmark – a medieval runestick written by someone named Tomme:
… Read the rest “An 800-year-old Viking note found. Written in runes on a slip of wood.”It isn’t easy to decipher what the runes say and the
Science Daily reports on University of North Carolina research that shows transcranial stimulation, the fascinating new tech that uses mild DC current to “switch on” parts… Read the rest “Using tDCS – mild electric jolts to stimulate your brain – actually hurts your IQ score.”
Laboratory Equipment has sad news for those of us who like straight, simple, elegant communication. It appears that scientific articles with abstracts packed with (unnecessary and obfuscatory)… Read the rest “Short, simple abstracts… aren’t cited as much as those with abstracts tending to maximize the high-verbosity quotient.”
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