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Brain-reading electrodes in a free-ranging octopus.

20 April 2023 grant 0

Ars Technica reports on an underwater electronic neurological breakthrough. A group of researchers from Naples, Okinawa, and further afield who have used implanted recording electrodes… Read the rest “Brain-reading electrodes in a free-ranging octopus.”

Australia’s first sauropod skull.

19 April 2023 grant 0

Scientific Frontline reports on a Diamantinasaurus skeleton that’s chalked up a few Australian firsts after being discovered in Queensland:

Lead researcher and paleontologist

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Scientific illustration of a compass rose, a map marking telling us which way we're facing and which direction we should go.

Science Art: From Four Roses des Vents, by Vincenzo Coronelli.

16 April 2023 grant 0

This is one of four compass roses created by Vincenzo Coronelli, a 17th-century cartographer. I found them all on Wikimedia Commons, which got them from the French Bibliotheque Nationale… Read the rest “Science Art: From Four Roses des Vents, by Vincenzo Coronelli.”

A Long Covid hypothesis: acids and bases.

16 April 2023 grant 0

Frontiers In Immunology has published a hypothesis – which is basically a call for more research – put out by two Long Covid sufferers who noticed something interesting about… Read the rest “A Long Covid hypothesis: acids and bases.”

Dragon discovered: A new gecko species found on Australian island

14 April 2023 grant 0

The Guardian reveals Phyllurus fimbriatus, a charismatic, 15cm (6-inch) reptile otherwise known as the the Scawfell Island leaf-tailed gecko, which has never before been scientifically… Read the rest “Dragon discovered: A new gecko species found on Australian island”

Here’s a Mars habitat, ready for a year’s occupancy.

13 April 2023 grant 0

PhysOrg reports on NASA’s Mars Dune Alpha, a 3D-printed home for researchers ready to spend a year simulating a mission on Mars:

The facility, created for three planned experiments

… Read the rest “Here’s a Mars habitat, ready for a year’s occupancy.”

The last leg of the longest butterfly migration has been mapped at last.

12 April 2023 grant 0

Science News brings tidings from Central Africa, where painted lady butterflies born in Europe spend their winters in the longest migration of any butterfly:

Pinpointing exactly where

… Read the rest “The last leg of the longest butterfly migration has been mapped at last.”
Scientific illustration of a camouflaged wood duck by AH Thayer.

Science Art: Male Wood Duck, by Abbott H. Thayer, 1904.

9 April 2023 grant 0

This is half of one color plate from a book intended to show how “showy” coloration can actually make some creatures harder to spot in their natural habitats.

This is a male wood… Read the rest “Science Art: Male Wood Duck, by Abbott H. Thayer, 1904.”

Baseball hitters are getting more home runs, thanks to climate change.

9 April 2023 grant 0

Science reports on some unexpected consequences of a slightly warmer planet. In the statistics-heavy game of baseball, hitters have been averaging more home runs than ever for a lot of … Read the rest “Baseball hitters are getting more home runs, thanks to climate change.”

Not that you’d want to kiss them, but T. rex actually had lips.

4 April 2023 grant 0

AP News reports on research into the fearful mouth of the scariest of flesh-eating dinosaurs which found that – despite the public image of Tyrannosaurus rex as being a snaggle-toothed… Read the rest “Not that you’d want to kiss them, but T. rex actually had lips.”

Any hormonal birth control increases your breast cancer risk.

3 April 2023 grant 0

The University of Oxford has unfortunate news for anyone on the pill, or implant, or hormone-releasing IUDs. A new anaysis from the Oxford Population Health’s Cancer Epidemiology Unit… Read the rest “Any hormonal birth control increases your breast cancer risk.”

Scientific illustration in the form of an orange-and-yellow map showing the thickness of sediments.

Science Art: Loess Sediments Thickness, by Przemysław Mroczek, 2020.

2 April 2023 grant 0

This map shows where silt was laid down untold ages ago. According to its brief description on Wikimedia Commons, it depicts: Loess sediments distribution and its thickness in western … Read the rest “Science Art: Loess Sediments Thickness, by Przemysław Mroczek, 2020.”

Elemental music from a spectroscope.

31 March 2023 grant 0

Ars Technica digs the research of Indiana University grad student W. Walker Smith, who has combined his interests in music and chemistry to create a “data sonification project”… Read the rest “Elemental music from a spectroscope.”

Scientific illustration of a space capsule landing on water, photographed by NASA/Keegan Barber.

Science Art: Crew-5’s Nighttime Splashdown, by NASA/Keegan Barber, 2023

26 March 2023 grant 0

SpaceX Dragon Endurance returns to Earth on the night of March 11, 2023. Specifically, it’s just after 9:00 p.m. in the waters off Tampa, Florida.

As described in NASA’s image… Read the rest “Science Art: Crew-5’s Nighttime Splashdown, by NASA/Keegan Barber, 2023”

Americans die young – and are dying younger than ever, compared to the rest of the world.

25 March 2023 grant 0

NPR looks at a subtle, slow-motion health crisis facing America. Compared to every other industrialized nation, across every age group, Americans die younger … and we’re… Read the rest “Americans die young – and are dying younger than ever, compared to the rest of the world.”

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