Science Alert brings us (well, those of us who are working out) one step closer to moving like the wind through a world of living statues with research from the UK and the Netherlands that shows… Read the rest “Exercise slows down your perception of time.”
That is a kitten. A panther kitten. Offspring of the catamount. Doesn’t look all that happy to have its picture engraved.
On a digital device, there’s no telling how large this… Read the rest “Science Art: Whelp of the Northern Panther (Felix concolor), 1842.”
Scientific American listens in on beluga conversations, thanks to a new dictionary that itemizes the “words” formed by their squishy, shape-able forehead “melons”… Read the rest “White whales talk with their foreheads.”
LiveScience has a dramatic development in a field I don’t think I’d ever considered: Linguistic archaeology. A historical linguist from UC Berkeley has used a language model… Read the rest “Languages show four waves of migration into prehistoric North America.”
This is an illustration — two illustrations, actually — from A New Astronomy for Beginners by David P. Todd. It’s actually an illustration of a demonstration, with … Read the rest “Science Art: Sun not in Plane of Moon’s Orbit – Eclipses Impossible, etc., 1898”
AP reports on a robot F16 that has just taken Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall out for a joyride courtesy of an AI fighter pilot:
… Read the rest “Driverless cars, OK. Pilotless fighter jets? They’re flying now, too.”Even though the technology is not fully developed, the service
404 Media report on an Australian team that has created cold espresso and a cold-brew coffee that takes a mere three minutes (instead of 12-to-24 hours) to make, thanks to a boost from ultrasonic… Read the rest “A 3-minute cold-brew coffee with ultrasound.”
He thought so! LiveScience recently reported on Alejandro Otero, who in 2021 was pretty sure the weird chunk of stuff that crashed through his roof in Naples, Florida, was a battery pack … Read the rest “NASA confirms – that really *was* space junk that hit man’s house.”
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Here’s some cutting-edge technology from 1957 which, frankly, is still pretty impressive. The Bell Labs X-2 is a rocket-plane that flew humans up into the upper… Read the rest “Science Art: X-2 After Drop from B-50 Mothership, 1957.”
The Guardian reports on a coalition of universities who have found hope for the low-lying, storm-prone (and tourism-dependent) Sunshine State, if climate resilience plans are put in … Read the rest “Florida can weather climate change – if planning starts now.”
Live Science reports on a first-of-its-kind archaeological discovery in the graveyard of the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum, where a woman buried a century ago was found to have a perfectly… Read the rest “Porcelain gallbladder exhumed from asylum cemetery.”
BBC reports on Raku, a Sumatran orangutan, who has become the first non-human animal observed creating medicine – intentionally mashing up plants to create a paste to smear on an … Read the rest “Orangutan makes his own medicine.”
They do look a little like meerkats, these big African satellite dishes. This is a photo from the Square Kilometre Array Organisation (SKAO) / South African Radio Astronomy Observatory… Read the rest “Science Art: MeerKAT telescopes, 2018”
Maybe Houston Chronicle just likes ragging on Elon Musk, maybe it’s a local paper commenting on a locally important industry – either way, they’ve got a story on how … Read the rest “SpaceX leads the way… in workplace injuries.”
SONG: “I Am Your Library”. (available as .ogg here)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on Science Daily, 25 Mar 2024, “New archive of ancient human brains challenges misconceptions… Read the rest “SONG: I Am Your Library”
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