Scientific American has new information on very old remains of Homo floresiensis, the diminutive prehistoric humans who lived on the island of Flores around 700,000 to 60,000 years ago.… Read the rest ““Hobbits” got smaller on their island.”
This is a biological photo that is also a mathematical photo. It’s a ball of worms that Georgia Tech researchers were studying, because, as it says on the National Science Foundation… Read the rest “Science Art: Ball-shaped blob of California black worms, 2023.”
PhysOrg gets funky with research that demonstrates how off-putting smells that can signal the presence of disease-causing critters can also tell your gut it’s time to beef up the… Read the rest “Smells can arm your gut defenses.”
This is a glowing hunk of rock, lit from within.
The rock was found in the Kelly Mine in Magadela, New Mexico. Smithsonite is a form of zinc carbonate, or zinc spar, that’s formed a large… Read the rest “Science Art: Smithsonite, from the Smithsonian Natural Museum of Natural History.”
Forbes has a strange but true example of unintended (but welcome) consequences. It seems like Shingrix, the new shingles vaccine, also offers protection against developing dementia… Read the rest “Shingles vaccine fights dementia.”
Some rockets are bigger than others.
I think this illustration (which I found here, on Wikimedia Commons) is maybe a better depiction of how space science itself has changed trajectory … Read the rest “Science Art: Saturn V-Shuttle-Ares IV comparison, by Bchan.”
PhysOrg shares research from ETH Zurich that demonstrates something that should be obvious to anyone who’s played pool. But as the warming Earth makes the ice caps melt, changing… Read the rest “Climate change affects the Earth’s rotation more than the Moon does.”
Mashable reports on the Mars Rover Curiosity, which has just found evidence of some major flooding and splishing and splashing on the surface of Mars long ago:
… Read the rest “Curiosity finds some exciting times on Mars.”Although Mars today is 1,000
SONG: “Inside the Moon”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: BBC, 15 July 2024, “Cave discovered on Moon could be home for humans“, as used in the post … Read the rest “SONG: Inside the Moon”
This is an educational poster, retouched by Wikimedia Commons user Rawpixel, of birds. It’s taken from Oliver Goldsmith’s book A History of the Earth and Animated Nature… Read the rest “Science Art: Collection of various birds from A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, 1820.”
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.””
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