This is a scientist operating scientific equipment, or a model posing as a scientist showing off the capabilities of a shiny new piece of informational display equipment.
The Guardian reports on a study of knock-on effects. Bat populations have been decimated in the U.S. and beyond by the white-nose fungus. Because bats eat mosquitoes (which carry disease)… Read the rest “Bat deaths to fungus result in more than 1,300 human children dying.”
A prehistoric pet. This is a mesolithic dog, same dog we know today more or less, Canis lupus familiaris, but about 9,300 years old.
It was found in an archaeological dig in Almeö, Sweden, … Read the rest “Science Art: Almeö Dog Skeleton, by Gunnar Creutz.”
The Conversation extends the dog-owner’s friendly game of fetch to feline friends who, researchers have found, can also enjoy bringing back toys that are thrown for them to retrieve… Read the rest “Cats will play fetch too.”
The Guardian reveals a … well, a revealing discovery, that a common food dye can be used to make skin and muscle transparent enough for doctors to spot tumors or diagnose injuries: … Read the rest “Take a look inside by dyeing your skin transparent.”
These are illustrations from “Notes on Species of Sagitta Collected on a Voyage from England to Australia” by B.B. Gray, as published in The Proceedings of the Royal Society… Read the rest “Science Art: Sagitta atlantica and Sagitta equatoria, 1922.”
The Byte is not filling us with apprehension at all with news of robot dogs being unleashed in the latest escalation of their conflict with Russia:
… Read the rest “Ukrainian military to use robot dogs.”To address its manpower shortage, Ukraine
The Conversation discusses an engineering problem with electronic brain implants intended to restore vision, like Neuralink’s hyped Blindsight. They can add more pixels to the… Read the rest “Neuralink “sight-restoring” implant has a problem: brains don’t have pixels.”
Here’s Larus argentatus, one of those wild animals that barely seems wild because it interacts with people so much. Simple line art captures a wild creature in motion, above a shoreline… Read the rest “Science Art: Herring Gull 4, by Robert Pos, 2008.”
SONG: “Oceans Under Mars”. (WAV version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: PhysOrg, 12 Aug 2024, “Scientists find oceans of water on Mars. It’s just too deep to tap.… Read the rest “SONG: Oceans Under Mars”
Scientific American has a new explanation for the famous “Wow!” signal – the orderly burst of focused radio energy recorded in 1977 that seemed like it could possibly… Read the rest “The Wow! signal probably wasn’t aliens (but is still wow).”
PhysOrg says there’s liquid water on Mars (great!) but (aw!) it’s too far underground to tap:
… Read the rest “There are oceans on Mars – but they’re too deep to get to.”The data from NASA’s Insight lander allowed the scientists to estimate
This is from a photographically illustrated advertisement in Hugo Gernsback’s magazine The Electrical Experimenter.
The description of this item is as follows:
… Read the rest “Science Art: The Turney Vario Variable Condenser, 1913.”For extreme measurements
CNN has reported on prehistoric remains found in North Africa that reveal more evidence that our primordial ancestors didn’t really eat a meat-heavy diet, but got their protein … Read the rest “The real “paleo diet” was mostly vegetarian.”
NPR reports on a big step forward in keeping a deadly disease at bay, with a new treatment for preventing AIDS transmission that, rather than a daily (and easily forgettable) pill, relies… Read the rest “Prevent AIDS with a couple shots a year.”
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