Nature asks a question that doesn’t have an easy answer. Medical implants – especially newer ones that interface directly with your brain – are designed for the long… Read the rest “What do you do when your neurological-implant company goes under?”
Rivers of lava glow a burning orange, sending white plumes up from a black stone landscape. This is a photograph of Hawaii – a place usually seen as a sort of paradise on Earth –… Read the rest “Science Art: Mauna Loa Northeast Rift Zone Eruption – November 28, 2022, Civil Air Patrol”
Science is not a publication normally given to interpersonal conflict. But now it’s covering the story of the weird competition between Robert DePalma and Melanie During, who suspects… Read the rest “Paleontology drama: Scientist accused of faking asteroid-death data to scoop colleague.”
USA Today (among other outlets) celebrated the discovery of an inscription in the oldest known alphabet – a 3,700-year-old Canaanite ivory comb engraved with 17 letters spelling… Read the rest “Oldest full sentence ever found is a warning against beard lice.”
These are seashells – murexes from the deep waters off Vanuatu called Scabrotrophon inspiratum. Belgian researcher Roland Houart wrote about them (and as far as I can tell photographed… Read the rest “Science Art: Scabrotrophon Species, Roland Houart, 2003.”
Phys.org passes along research led by Dr. Katerina Johnson of Oxford and Dr. Karli Watson of UC Boulder, who found that the more social a monkey is, the healthier its gut biome is – which… Read the rest “Good friendships make a healthier gut biome (in monkeys, at least).”
MIT Technology Review takes a serious look at the ramifications of having public discourse in private hands, especially when it comes to a written record of turning points in human history.… Read the rest “Twitter’s collapse could wipe clean the historical record – of the last 16 years’ major moments, at least.”
The National Science Foundation follows researchers taking a second look at “junk” DNA – the genes that don’t seem to do anything and instead just sit in a genome… Read the rest “Butterfly wing-patterns come from ancient DNA, switched around by junk.”
This is an illustration of MAGIC telescopes capturing images of very intense gamma rays. “MAGIC” refers to the twin Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) telescopes… Read the rest “Science Art: MAGIC telescopes detected the highest-energy gamma rays from a Gamma Ray Burst…, 2019.”
This is from the 2017 Bridge Records release of Dvořák, Ravel, Gershwin & Others: Chamber Works, the “lost Clara Rockmore theremin album.”
Rockmore, of course, was … Read the rest “Thanksgiving Theremin: “La Vie En Rose,” Clara Rockmore and Nadia Reisenberg”
This is a piece written (by a pupil of Claude Debussy’s) for woodwind, percussion, bass vocal and two theremin cellos – an instrument similar to a theremin, and invented by … Read the rest “Thanksgiving Theremin: “Ecuatorial” by Edgar Varese”
Science News celebrates a potential (and fragile) recovery – that might have far-reaching implications – with observations that several species of harlequin frogs, thought… Read the rest “Something to be thankful for: Some nearly extinct species are quietly springing back.”
SONG: “Sandpaper Skin”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: PLOS One 19 Oct 2022, “Sharks are the preferred scraping surface for large pelagic fishes: Possible implications … Read the rest “SONG: Sandpaper Skin”
Science News reveals the discovery of ice flows off Greenland’s melting that had been hidden until now. Researchers say the amount of sea-level rise due to the melting ice could be… Read the rest “Greenland is melting faster than we thought, and the sea is rising in response.”
This is a likeness of the elephant seals of Baja California, Mexico, as displayed in 1933 in the newly opened Hall of Ocean Life in the American Museum. The seals were at this point already … Read the rest “Science Art: Elephant Seals of Guadaloupe Island”
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