Ars Technica reports on a long-awaited milestone. After many not-quite-that-long missions, a NASA astronaut is on the way to finally spend more than a full year living in space:
… Read the rest “NASA astronaut finally ready to spend more than a year in space.”When Mark
A test apparatus, as used for the article “Modification of Force Feed Lubricators” in the 1960-05 edition of Lubrication Engineering. The idea was to study why the same oils… Read the rest “Science Art: Test Apparatus, 1960”
Ars Technica reports on the ongoing blotting out of the stars at night, with artificial light pollution doubling in the last 10 years alone. There are ways, however, to bring the stars back… Read the rest “We can get back to the night sky. But it will take work.”
Science News looks at a Viking burial site in England where animals were buried alongside humans, and finds that radioactive traces show these critters traveled to Great Britain aboard… Read the rest “Vikings brought animals to England, radioactive analysis shows.”
An image from NASA/JPL-Caltech depicting a capsule starting to slow down in the Martian atmosphere. All we see is the outer structure, which seems mostly to be made of metal. But inside…… Read the rest “Science Art: Deceleration of Mars Science Laboratory in Martian Atmosphere, 2011”
Bolts magazine has an article by one of the researchers published in American Political Science Review who found that police interactions directly correlate with lower voter turnout,… Read the rest “Researchers: one police stop makes a person less likely to vote.”
Researchers from Imperial College London and the Paris School of Economics have looked across the pond at 50 years of data and found that America, rather than being the country of dreams,… Read the rest “The gap between rich and poor is growing faster in the U.S. than Europe.”
The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health has released an alarming study that’s found levels of carcinogens and other toxic materials, including … Read the rest “Kids are wearing toxic make-up”
An image of the machine that builds our bodies, bit by bit.
From the National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, located at www.genome.gov – though … Read the rest “Science Art: DNA Double Helix, by the National Human Genome Research Institute”
SONG: “Whispering Secrets to Me”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Defector 15 Nov 2022, “Turtles Have Been Vocalizing All This Time. Why Did We Not Listen?,” as used … Read the rest “SONG: Whispering Secrets to Me”
A professor at the prestigious Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania – probably America’s most highly regarded business school – has found … Read the rest “Study: ChatGPT could earn an MBA from Wharton”
AP News reports on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approving the first design for a new kind of nuclear power plant that’s smaller and less expensive to build that traditional… Read the rest “Get ready for some small modular nuclear plants.”
I wasn’t sure if this really counted as a scientific illustration, despite finding it in the Biodiversity Heritage Library, since most of the other plates in this book are really … Read the rest “Science Art: Just Missed Him, by G.E. Lodge, 1898.”
Vice reports on the LOL Verifier, a device that won’t let you type out “LOL” in a message unless you’ve actually just laughed out loud:
… Read the rest “New invention won’t let you LOL without, you know, laughing out loud.”[Brian] Moore, an artist
Ars Technica looks at the way Exxon executives decided to bury their own company’s very accurate findings on petroleum and climate:
… Read the rest “Despite their public stance, Exxon’s internal science team had a clear view on climate change.”Exxon’s scientific climate work was shut
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