The Markup is making an offer to anyone with a Facebook account – even an inactive one. Previously, they mapped out how the Meta Pixel (formerly the Facebook Pixel) gathered people’s… Read the rest “Wanna watch the watchers?”
This is a tiny component in an amplifier, seen way up close.
If you want the specifics, from the Wikimedia Commons page where I found it:
… Read the rest “Science Art: 2N930 NPN silicon planar transistor, by Mister rf”45V, 0.03A 300mW 3-Pin TO-18
The 2N930 is designed for
The Guardian reports from Cyprus, where an antiviral medicine for human COVID-19 patients has proved effective against a deadly outbreak of feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), a disease… Read the rest “Human coronavirus meds cure deadly cat disease.”
Eurosurveillance reports on an ongoing epidemic that has seen a contagious strain of avian influenza, HPAI H5N1, jump from birds to mammals, where it’s spread from wild seagulls… Read the rest “There’s a bird flu epidemic in fur farms. (This is not great.)”
Baby pictures, from The American lobster; a study of its habits and development, a Bureau of Fisheries document that I found here, at the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Science Daily has the story of a research team at Northwestern University that has determined the way any particular star should twinkle – which is a phenomenon based in part on how… Read the rest “Twinkle loudly, little star”
Ars Technica covers a weird, almost cinematic story out of California, where law enforcement officials have, following a code-enforcement tip, just busted an illegal lab filled with … Read the rest “Is this a mad scientist being busted? Something worse?”
This is an oddly domestic example of an astronomical principle … or maybe it only seems domestic to me because I keep a bicycle in my living room. But anyway, three very different objects… Read the rest “Science Art: If Bodies fill the Same Angle, their Size is Proportional to their Distance, 1898”
The expat news magazine Wanted in Rome reports on an archaeological discovery in the shadow of the Vatican – a theater dedicated to the notorious Emperor Nero before 70 CE, but lost… Read the rest “Theater of Nero discovered in Rome.”
PhysOrg introduces us to Gnathia jimmybuffetti, a little marine mystery-bug (or literally, “cryptofauna”) related to roly-poly pillbugs but named for that fella still… Read the rest “Parrot-heads, celebrate: New isopod discovered in Florida Keys named for you-know-who.”
The Lunar Landing Research Vehicle-3 was an experimental Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) vehicle – a fancy hovercraft – that the Apollo astronauts used to practice … Read the rest “Science Art: Armstrong Through the Years – LLRV-3 by NASA Graphics/Kirstin Sharrer”
SONG: “The Scientist (a penitential cover)”. (available as .ogg here)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: This isn’t based on research It’s a cover of this vaguely scientific… Read the rest “SONG: The Scientist (a penitential Coldplay cover)”
IFLScience reports on some stylish, retro bangles coming from a Brazilian designer that are taking the world by storm … because they were made from giant sloth bones about 25,000 … Read the rest “Bone jewelry means humans were in the Americas *before* the Bering Land Bridge.”
The osprey is also known as the fish hawk, and as Pandion haliaetus, a name that comes from two parts: King Pandion II, the eighth king of Athens and grandfather of Theseus, and ἁλιάετος haliáetos… Read the rest “Science Art: Osprey in Flight, by Enrique Patino, 2011”
CNN reports on a Spanish discovery that a 5,000-year-old skeleton buried with an elephant tusk, an ostrich egg, an ivory comb and two daggers – one ivory and the other amber –… Read the rest “Ivory Lady was a prehistoric warrior queen (and maybe a warrior witch queen, too).”
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