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
These are sea anemones, from History of the British Sea-Anemones and Corals by Phillip Henry Gosse.
They are, according to the caption below:
1-5 Corynactis Viritis, 6. Bologera Eques,… Read the rest “Science Art: Corynactis Viritis (et al), Phillip Henry Gosse, 1860.”
MedPage Today shares a painful finding from the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA Pain Medicine), who have issued guidelines for pre-operative treatment… Read the rest “Anesthesiologists issue painful pot warning in new guidelines.”
PhysOrg looks back (via the James Webb Space Telescope) to when the universe was a quarter of its current age, and has been able to see young galaxies stretching out into shapes like our own… Read the rest “Webb snaps Milky Way-like galaxies taking shape long, long ago.”
This is how you advertise a science book. At least, it was how Hugo Gernsback did in the pages of The Electrical Experimenter in September 1916. Is that figure in the middle Hephaestus or is… Read the rest “Science Art: Experimental Electricity Course, 1916.”
EurekAlert presents the findings of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s John DeLong, who has found the first known virovore – a microorganism that feeds on viruses:
… Read the rest “Nebraska researcher identifies the first known virus-eating organism.”DeLong and
Thanks to an unexpected gift from an old friend, I was just reading an article in the print edition of Scientific American about the Sora people of eastern India, who have a unique culture … Read the rest “Science Art: Papillons, from Larousse Universe, 1922”
MedPage Today maps the correlation between riding fast and free and donating your young organs to people who need them:
… Read the rest “Motorcycle rallies are a boon … for people waiting for organ donors.”Compared with the 4 weeks before and after rallies, there was an estimated
The Guardian reveals research into the private lives of lady snakes, which has found that those things human scientists thought might be scent glands or underdeveloped penises were actually… Read the rest “Female snakes have two clitorises.”
Defector (not just a sports blog) reports on a zoological discovery – that turtles have been vocalizing all along, but we’ve only realized they had voices in the last couple… Read the rest “Turtles have voices that we hadn’t heard till now.”
Uranium, which produces 3 million times more energy and 10 million times less waste!
I honestly have no idea if this PSA is real or a sarcastic reproduction. It could easily have gone with … Read the rest “Science Art: Science by Santa: Remember bad kids get coal, Good kids get Uranium….,”
SONG: “14.8 Million”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Nature 14 Dec 2022, “Missing data mean we’ll probably never know how many people died of COVID,” as used in the post… Read the rest “SONG: 14.8 Million”
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