NASA Mars rover spots “possibilities for microbial habitability.”
Mashable carries news from NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has found traces that ancient ripples left on primordial lake beds, which prove that far from being […]
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Science Art: Le miscroscope [La Science], 1908.
This is a metal engraving by Charles Philippe Pillet, which I found in the Paris Museums Collections. It’s considered a “numismatic” piece, but I don’t […]
Whalesong is structured like a language.
Astrobiology reports on a cross-disciplinary study that has found that the song of humpback whales has the same distinct mathematical structure as a human language: […]
Women’s history found under immigrant asylum floorboards
Australia’s ABC reports on clues to a hidden past being found under the floor of a former immigration depot and women’s asylum, shedding new light […]
So here’s *why* vaccines don’t cause autism.
We are at a point where this had to be published, but Stat has here gathered the actual data into one easy-to-read explainer for why […]
Get better searches by swearing at Google.
How are we teaching the learning-machines to speak? Ars Technica reports on the discovery (or revelation, maybe) that it’s possible to do away with that […]
Science Art: Cystoidea, by Ernst Haeckel
This is one of the plates from the 100 illustrations in Kunst-Formen der Natur, or “Art Forms in Nature,” by Ernst Haeckel, a scientist – […]
Asteroid Bennu rich in ancient life-sustaining stuff.
IFL Science reports on the 121-gram sample that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe collected from Asteroid Bennu — a handful of dirt that shows a wealth of […]
Tuberculosis in Kansas City.
Reuters has what seems like a nostalgic headline from the 1800s, but no, it’s happening now. There’s an outbreak of consumption – that is, tuberculosis […]
Science Art: Boulder ejected from Halemaumau, at Kīlauea, May 11, 1925
Such was science in 1925. A man in a fedora and tie, pointing at impact craters on the ground, standing next to a large rock, […]
Bird flu still spreading in cats.
Scientific American is still following the progress of the H5N1 flu virus, and finding it’s spreading more than anyone would want — especially if you […]
SONG: They Can Make It Rain Bombs (a penitential Camper Van Chadbourne cover)
SONG: “They Can Make It Rain Bombs” . (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This isn’t based on any recent research. It’s a penitential cover […]
Science Art: Reconstrucción de Tuzoia canadensis, con Anomalocaris atrás, 2022.
This is an image from one of the ages before dinosaurs. I found it by looking for Anomalocaris, which was a sort of terrifying sea […]
Tricking the immune system into attacking tumors.
Nature reports on Chinese researchers who found a way to make the body get rid of cancer — by disguising tumors as transplanted pig organs, […]
Sustainable superglue.
Science Daily has news from Colorado State chemical researchers, who’ve found an adhesive that does the work of superglue, but is “biodegradable, tunable, and reusable”: […]