Porcelain gallbladder exhumed from asylum cemetery.
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 […]
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Orangutan makes his own medicine.
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 […]
Science Art: MeerKAT telescopes, 2018
They do look a little like meerkats, these big African satellite dishes. This is a photo from the Square Kilometre Array Organisation (SKAO) / South […]
SpaceX leads the way… in workplace injuries.
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 […]
SONG: I Am Your Library
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 […]
Voyager 1 is working again.
NASA reports that the interstellar probe, which stopped sending back updates last November, is once again letting HQ know how its onboard systems are doing. […]
Science Art: Back Cover Detail, THE MIND, 1965.
I think this is a brain, but it might just be a maze. This is a small icon that appears on the lower left corner […]
Damned big ichthyosaur.
Science Daily has news of a child — child! — of 11 who discovered the fossilized bones, during a seaside walk in England, of a […]
Lower Medicaid, higher crime.
Bolts magazine follows up on studies showing a link between health insurance and crime rates (that is, the less people are insured, the higher crime […]
Mouth bacteria linked to colon cancer
Scientific American has new research that finds a connection between one subspecies of a bacterium commonly found in our mouths, Fusobacterium nucleatum, and the growth […]
Science Art: Human Factors: Scanning Male and Standing Female, 1964.
This had to have been meant slightly tongue-in-cheek at the time… hadn’t it? Bespectacled man, meet Vitruvian lady. The cartoon couple are from an ad […]
Algae bloom data, set to music.
NPR has a piece on a USF anthro prof’s idea to make her sort of depressing research more palatable in a way of which this […]
Glowing petunias.
NPR greets springtime with flowers that show their brightest color (a fluorescent green) after the sun goes down, thanks to genetic modification that makes these […]
Science Art: Amoeba. Actinophrys. by Philip Henry Gosse.
This is a scientific illustration done as a paper collage; that is, Philip Gosse took a sheet of paper, painted it as black as space, […]
Hyper-sexual zombie cicadas… on speed.
That’s how the CBS headline starts, and I can only improve upon it by adding the drugs in the interest of accuracy. The story is […]