Science Art: Crabs (figures 212-216, Natuurlyke Historie, page 256, 1782.
A collection of crustaceans from a book by Amsterdam-based publisher Louis Renard on East Indian sea creatures. The illustrations were apparently done by Samuel Fallours, […]
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Dolphins use corals and sponges as medicine – to treat their skin.
Science magazine takes a deep dive on the medical lives of dolphins, who appear to be intentionally using corals and other stuff growing on the […]
Exhaustion (or distraction) as a language-learning tool.
Kids acquire languages better than adults do – everyone knows that. But Scientific American looks at researchers with Ghent University’s Eleonore Smalle who went just […]
Chicken and rice go together – all the way to the origins of domestic fowl in grain fields.
Science News discusses two new studies that place the origins of domestic chickens in one specific place – Southeast Asia – and much more recently […]
Science Art: Bole cross section of common hazel (Corylus avellana), by Annika Karusion, 2011
This is a microscope’s view of a plant’s stem, uploaded to Wikimedia Commons as part of the Estonian Science Photo Competition of 2011, which I […]
Sick of high crime? Support welfare. New study shows a dramatic link.
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 […]
Science Art: Artist’s concept of the fastest rotating star (VFTS 102), by NASA/ESA and G. Bacon (STScI).
This is a star spinning at 2 million kilometers per hour – so fast, it has made itself into its own twirling skirt, its own […]
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.
Scientific American looks at looking at. That is, the magazine – through an essay by systems neuroscientist György Buzsáki – surveys how it is that […]
The first animal communities are way, way older than you might think. (And weirder, too.)
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” […]
Voyager 1, the world’s most faraway space probe, is sending back weird signals.
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 […]
Science Art: Title Page, The Auk, Vol. XXXI, 1914.
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,” […]
Reading the DNA from Pompeii
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 […]
“Looty”: using NFTs to steal back looted African artworks, digitally.
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 […]
No song today.
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 […]
Science Art: Power spectrum of Siemens star with 1024 line pairs per image height, by Bautsch, 2012.
This is a Siemens star, a pattern used to calibrate optical equipment – to see how well the lens (or raster, or driver, or whatever) […]