EurekAlert! posts a peer-reviewed study published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics that shows a “quite dramatic” correlation between the removal of welfare and an … Read the rest “Sick of high crime? Support welfare. New study shows a dramatic link.”
This is a star spinning at 2 million kilometers per hour – so fast, it has made itself into its own twirling skirt, its own hula hoop, its own dervish robe.
As the European Space Agency… Read the rest “Science Art: Artist’s concept of the fastest rotating star (VFTS 102), by NASA/ESA and G. Bacon (STScI).”
Scientific American looks at looking at. That is, the magazine – through an essay by systems neuroscientist György Buzsáki – surveys how it is that the human mind detects the… Read the rest “The brain is not a blank slate. Here’s how it shapes what you see, what you don’t see, and what you think you know.”
They had strange, branching forms, says Popular Science as they look over fossils from Newfoundland. And they took off centuries before the so-called “Cambrian explosion”… Read the rest “The first animal communities are way, way older than you might think. (And weirder, too.)”
Space.com is calling the mysterious set of signals a “telemetry issue,” and experts say it shouldn’t be surprising that an interstellar ship launched 45 years ago … Read the rest “Voyager 1, the world’s most faraway space probe, is sending back weird signals.”
The American Ornithologists’ Union published a journal called The Auk in 1914, with articles in it like “A Plea for the Conservation of the Eider,” and “The Fallacy… Read the rest “Science Art: Title Page, The Auk, Vol. XXXI, 1914.”
BBC reports on a study reassembling the genome of a man and woman preserved for centuries under the ash of Pompeii, and what the ancient DNA can teach us today:
… Read the rest “Reading the DNA from Pompeii”The two people were first discovered
Reuters describes the Looty Project as one man’s crusade to finance new artists in Nigeria and Benin by selling NFTs minted from 3D images of looted artifacts displayed in European… Read the rest ““Looty”: using NFTs to steal back looted African artworks, digitally.”
I have a great musical track, a hummed melody, a couple ideas about pseudosatellites and diddly-squat words.
More when I can get some words, and then a penitential cover.
This is a Siemens star, a pattern used to calibrate optical equipment – to see how well the lens (or raster, or driver, or whatever) can see. Although actually, this graphic is not merely… Read the rest “Science Art: Power spectrum of Siemens star with 1024 line pairs per image height, by Bautsch, 2012.”
The Journal of Experimental Psychology defines something I think we’ve all had a feeling about – that the more you encounter a bad deed (or hear it described in, say, a televised… Read the rest “It feels less evil the second time around.”
Popular Science discusses what could be IBM’s quantum breakthrough – a quantum processor named “Kookaburra” that’s set to start computing in 2025:… Read the rest “Laugh, quantum computer, laugh… in IBM’s gum tree.”
This is some laboratory glassware used in Pasteur’s experiments, as illustrated in Les merveilles de l’industrie, an 1873 science book that has a marvelous gallery on Flickr… Read the rest “Science Art: “Ballon à col sinueux employé par M. Pasteur dans ses expériences contre la génération spontanée”, 1873.”
Science magazine reveals the first known case of a mammal mimicking insect noises, in a study that found greater mouse-eared bats imitate stinging insect buzzes to keep owls and other potential… Read the rest “Bats mimic buzzing hornets to scare predators away.”
Science News examines the science of the Top 40, with a survey of the charts that found what goes into that first, breakthrough hit is the opposite of what makes for an ongoing musical career… Read the rest “Pop-song paradox: What it takes to be a one-hit wonder is the opposite of what it takes to have a long career.”
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