BBC opens our eyes to a hidden process in the night, when sleep washes away toxic proteins in your brain:
… Read the rest “Sleep and be cleaned, O brain.”Scientists, who imaged the brains of mice, showed that the glymphatic system became
A plate of geometrically arranged capensis moths, as recorded by Pieter Cramer, a fabric merchant and butterfly fan.
The whole book is charming. From the Biological Diversity Library … Read the rest “Science Art: Plate CCCII, Fig. A.B. Capensis, from Pieter Cramer’s De Uitlandische Kapellen, 1779”
That space rock that blew up over the Urals (and was captured on a few different cameras)… well, BBC reports that they’ve just hauled a 5-foot-long fragment out of Russia’s… Read the rest “Remember that exploding meteorite? They just found a half-ton chunk of it.”
Outside meanders out of the campground and into the chem lab, following a Connecticut College experiment determining just how strong our junk-food cravings can get. As it turns out, the… Read the rest “Oreos “as addictive as cocaine.””
BBC looks ahead to a brighter future… at least as far as our energy supply is concerned. Fusion reactors have gotten one small step closer, using lasers that zap hydrogen into heavier… Read the rest “Lasers make the power of tomorrow.”
Pennies from Heaven? P’shaw! Nature looks over the vastly overvalued weather report on Saturn and Jupiter:
… Read the rest “Sooty, with a chance of diamonds.”…Mona Delitsky of California Specialty Engineering in Flintridge,
I’m pretty sure Nature is blazing a new B-movie trail with this report on hormone-disrupting chemicals “rising from the dead”:
… Read the rest “Zombie sex-change pollution”Environmental scientists have discovered
A Holocentrus hastatum, or Sargocentron hastatus, or red soldier fish. They have big spines, you see.
This one comes from A Natural History of Fish, by Georges Cuvier and M. Valenciennes,… Read the rest “Science Art: Holocentre à grosses épines, from Histoire Naturelle des Poissons, Volume 3, 1828”
Those questions were raised in, of all publications, Astrobiology Magazine. Why are astrobiologists so concerned about human culture? Because if civilizations can really die out, that… Read the rest “Utopia or catastrophe: How long do civilizations live? (And how can we find another?)”
National Geographic looks into the caves and reports on the earliest artists’ small, beautiful hands:
… Read the rest “Cave artists mostly feminine.”Archaeologist Dean Snow of Pennsylvania State University analyzed hand
Sweden’s The Local rewrites history with a pre-Viking farm that they’re calling “shocking”:
… Read the rest “After the Ice Age, the farmers came”“It is completely unique,” Jan Heinerud at Västerbotten’s
BBC discusses the challenges faced by Rodrigo Souza, a man who’s dedicated himself to saving an endangered species – the lethal, heat-seeking venomous snake called the Atlantic… Read the rest “Save the (10-foot-long, venomous) snakes!”
No, not quoting that classical sot Li Bai, but the (mostly) sober-minded folks at Outside, who are now celebrating Dogfish Head’s latest special beer… made with moon dust … Read the rest “This beer has the moon in it.”
Yep. Virgin Galactic has announced that it’s sending a reality TV show contestant into space while cameras roll:
… Read the rest “Reality TV colonizes space.”“Space Race” is a groundbreaking, elimination competition series
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