Study: ChatGPT could earn an MBA from Wharton
A professor at the prestigious Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania – probably America’s most highly regarded business school – has found […]
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Get ready for some small modular nuclear plants.
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 […]
Science Art: Just Missed Him, by G.E. Lodge, 1898.
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 […]
New invention won’t let you LOL without, you know, laughing out loud.
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: […]
Despite their public stance, Exxon’s internal science team had a clear view on climate change.
Ars Technica looks at the way Exxon executives decided to bury their own company’s very accurate findings on petroleum and climate: Exxon’s scientific climate work […]
Science Art: Corynactis Viritis (et al), Phillip Henry Gosse, 1860.
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 […]
Anesthesiologists issue painful pot warning in new guidelines.
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 […]
Webb snaps Milky Way-like galaxies taking shape long, long ago.
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 […]
Science Art: Experimental Electricity Course, 1916.
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 […]
Nebraska researcher identifies the first known virus-eating organism.
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: […]
Science Art: Papillons, from Larousse Universe, 1922
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 […]
Motorcycle rallies are a boon … for people waiting for organ donors.
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 […]
Female snakes have two clitorises.
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 […]
Turtles have voices that we hadn’t heard till now.
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 […]
Science Art: Science by Santa: Remember bad kids get coal, Good kids get Uranium….,
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 […]