I can’t tell if this is either totally obvious or the gravest of insults … or, more likely, both… but Stanford researchers have found that night owls, those of us who tend… Read the rest “Being a night owl is a mental-health risk.”
The Conversation finds a scientific reason for an often-observed phenomenon – that some people seemed strangely immune to COVID-19, while others would come down with it more than… Read the rest “Why did some folks never get covid, and others *always* got it?”
BBC reports on the discovery of a cave on the moon that has awakened a primordial proto-human urge in the space scientists observing it. They spot a cave on the moon and think, hey, we could … Read the rest “There’s a cave on the moon we could live in.”
Here’s a horned dinosaur, or what’s left of one. I found it on Wikimedia Commons, but it was originally found in Utah, then written up in “New Horned Dinosaurs from Utah… Read the rest “Science Art: Skull reconstruction of Utahceratops gettyi, 2010.”
PhysOrg reports on mysterious chunks of hard-to-see space rock all around us, even now. They contained – and might still contain – ice, which University of Michigan astronomers… Read the rest “Up to 60% of the objects nearest Earth could be “dark comets.””
How will the students play Bubble Cash? Mashable reports on what might be a smart move in favor of dumb phones at the upper-crusty English school Eton:
… Read the rest “One of the world’s poshest schools bans smartphones, issues Nokias.”The all-boys boarding school, founded
Science Alert has some encouraging research for those who keep up with their immunizations, with evidence that covid boosters offer increased protection against other strains of coronavirus,… Read the rest “Covid boosters protect against other viruses.”
This is an illustration from Nordisk Familjebok, a Norwegian encyclopedia from the turn of the last century. The labyrinth, naturally, is much older. It’s of a sort that can be laid… Read the rest “Science Art: Trojeborg, a stone labyrinth from Visby, 1919”
Yellowstone Public Radio has a piece on the grand-looking Lokiceratops rangiformes, unearthed in Montana and “unveiled” at the Natural History Museum of Utah:
… Read the rest “New species of horned, plant-eating dinosaur unveiled”Mark Loewen
This is Saturn, as photographed (yes, it’s a composite photo, not a drawing) by Cassini as it passed in front of the Sun. Our Earth is visible, barely, if you zoom in and look “above… Read the rest “Science Art: Saturn Eclipse, Cassini Orbiter, 2006.”
Glistening and pink like extruded edible protein, sure… but at least it’s friendly! NPR uncovers the living skin used to cover robots with a (supposedly) more approachable… Read the rest “Living skin helps robot smile in a way that is not at all creepy.”
This is a Popular Mechanics illustration from 102 years ago that sounds like it could have been written today. Warnings about industrial pollution increasing air temperature are nothing… Read the rest “Science Art: The Furnaces of the World…., 1912”
SONG: “Low Orbit Ion Cannon” (a penitential Emperor X cover).
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: This isn’t based on any research; it’s a cover of an Emperor X song recorded… Read the rest “SONG: Low Orbit Ion Cannon (a penitential Emperor X cover)”
SONG: “Migration Roads”. (available as .ogg here)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on LiveScience, 3 May 2024, “1st Americans came over in 4 different waves from Siberia,… Read the rest “SONG: Migration Roads”
This is a device from Cotton Card-Room Machinery, a catalog published by Whitlin Machine Works.
I can’t say much about how it works because I’ve never been in a cotton card-room.… Read the rest “Science Art: Detaching Roll Mechanism, 1912.”
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