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Scientific illustration of colorful sea anemones practically glowing in orange, yellow, and red against the blackness of an undersea cave or rock face.

Science Art: Corynactis Viritis (et al), Phillip Henry Gosse, 1860.

15 January 2023 grant 0

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.”

Anesthesiologists issue painful pot warning in new guidelines.

12 January 2023 grant 0

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.”

Webb snaps Milky Way-like galaxies taking shape long, long ago.

9 January 2023 grant 0

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.”

Scientific illustration of... well, there's a lot going on here. We've got a mythical-looking figure in a loincloth, sort of half-Zeus (his right hand is holding lightning bolts) and half-Hephaestus (his left hand, to our right, is on a large switch) Along the lower right of the image there are insets of various early 20th-century electrical devices. To the left and across the bottom is a block of text advertising a course in electrical science in the form of a book by S. Gernsback (doubtless a relative of the publisher, Hugo Gernsback) and H.W. Secor. It only costs a dollar!

Science Art: Experimental Electricity Course, 1916.

8 January 2023 grant 0

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.”

Nebraska researcher identifies the first known virus-eating organism.

4 January 2023 grant 0

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:

DeLong and

… Read the rest “Nebraska researcher identifies the first known virus-eating organism.”

Science Art: Papillons, from Larousse Universe, 1922

1 January 2023 grant 0

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”

Motorcycle rallies are a boon … for people waiting for organ donors.

31 December 2022 grant 0

MedPage Today maps the correlation between riding fast and free and donating your young organs to people who need them:

Compared with the 4 weeks before and after rallies, there was an estimated

… Read the rest “Motorcycle rallies are a boon … for people waiting for organ donors.”

Female snakes have two clitorises.

29 December 2022 grant 0

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.”

Turtles have voices that we hadn’t heard till now.

27 December 2022 grant 0

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.”

Scientific illustration of an ad touting nuclear power, in a 1950s/1960s style, showing a cheerful Santa over a young boy reaching for a colorful atomic model under the words "Science by Santa: Remember bad kids get coal, Good kids get Uranium which produces 3 million times more power and 10 million times less waste for their christmas lights." (With the odd capitalization in the original text.)

Science Art: Science by Santa: Remember bad kids get coal, Good kids get Uranium….,

25 December 2022 grant 0

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

24 December 2022 grant 0

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”

Dinosaurs had songs. Not so much roaring as something more melodic.

23 December 2022 grant 0

BBC reports on new research reconstructing the sounds of the dinosaurs, the honks, hoots, chirps, and vibrating grunts that the giant creatures used to communicate millions of years ago… Read the rest “Dinosaurs had songs. Not so much roaring as something more melodic.”

Scientific illustration: a B&W image of the interior of a spacecraft and an astronaut, with a small, orange item floating in midair off to the middle right - a tiny Snoopy doll used to measure relative weightlessness inside the cabin.

Science Art: Snoopy Hitches Ride to Space Aboard Artemis I, November 2022

18 December 2022 grant 0

This is a NASA-released image of a very important piece of space technology. That small, color-corrected orange thing is a tiny plush Snoopy doll used to measure relative weightlessness… Read the rest “Science Art: Snoopy Hitches Ride to Space Aboard Artemis I, November 2022”

More people died of COVID-19 than we know. Or ever will know. Because data is missing.

15 December 2022 grant 0

Nature reports on the gaps in information that mean the official counts of people who died as a result of COVID-19 are much, much lower than the real numbers:

The [Nature and WHO] data suggest

… Read the rest “More people died of COVID-19 than we know. Or ever will know. Because data is missing.”

Millions of years ago, when Earth was ruled by giant… crabs?

15 December 2022 grant 0

EurekAlert reveals new evidence of an age long before the dinosaurs, a primeval world 470 million years ago when the world was ruled by giant swimming arthropods. Like, the same family as… Read the rest “Millions of years ago, when Earth was ruled by giant… crabs?”

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