Scientific American introduces us to the RadSecure program, which aims to keep the radioactive isotopes in use all around us from getting too close for comfort (or good health):
… Read the rest “There’s radioactive material *everywhere*. Here’s who’s trying to clean up clinics and food processing plants..”Radioactive
Science News checks out the evidence for the oldest known skull surgery in America, a forehead-opening operation that took place between 3,000 and 5,000 years ago in what is now known as … Read the rest “A 3,000-year-old skull surgery in Alabama”
Popular Science explains the 9.000-pound flying robots made by the drone company Elroy Air aren’t meant to get your packages to your door. They’re just flying them most of … Read the rest “FedEx is testing a drone with a 27-foot wingspan for “middle mile” delivery.”
This is a single microscope from a page of microscopes in the 1797 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, which I found on archive.org.
This particular one is a compound microscope. It’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Culpeper’s Microscope, 1797.”
Science Daily shares news from NASA/Goddard that Hubble, the space telescope supposedly surpassed by the new Webb telescope, has now identified the farthest star (and thus longest-ago… Read the rest “Spotting the farthest star: Earendel.”
Lancaster University researchers have studied folks who grew up in the country, in the suburbs, and in the city by analyzing their movements in a specially designed video game, and found… Read the rest “Rural people have a better sense of direction.”
This is an image of a thing that happens that is both very fast and also invisible. The colorful blocks are representations of “fast radio bursts” (FRBs) which are sudden surges… Read the rest “Science Art: CSIRO’s ASKAP telescope continues to detect new FRBs…, 2020”
SONG: “Lost Aromas (A Rose)”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Discover 25 Jan 2022, “Smells Are Going Extinct, So Researchers Are Working to Preserve Them,” as used … Read the rest “SONG: Lost Aromas (A Rose)”
Science reports on a Human Frontier Science Program project that is creating a more stable, more self-controlled walking robot by basing its motion on emus rather than using the “active… Read the rest “Big Dog is being outrun – by an emu-inspired BirdBot”
This is a collection of bits and pieces (including “male genital armature” in 1s and 1t) of Pseudotremia cavernarum, the cave millipede. Yes, the researchers got up close … Read the rest “Science Art: Lysiopetalum Cavernarum, Etc., Emerton & Packard, del., 1888.”
Hakai Magazine (via Smithsonian) shares some discoveries from the Bluefish Caves in the northern Yukon, where archaeologists have unearthed clues to a whole human society that flourished… Read the rest “The earliest North Americans were hanging out hunting horses in the Yukon 24,000 years ago.”
Discover reports on the growing field of “scent researchers” who are attempting to bring back smells that have long since gone away, and to record the smells we’ve got… Read the rest “On the extinction of smells, and the attempt to preserve an aroma.”
Science News has unfortunate news for arachnophobes who like relaxing in bamboo furniture. For the first time in more than a century, a new species of tarantula has been discovered in Asia,… Read the rest “We discovered a new kind of tarantula. It lives inside bamboo.”
In 1947, Natural History Magazine took a deep dive into potatoes – where they came from and where they’re going … and growing. The story “Saga of the Earth Nut”… Read the rest “Science Art: Yearly Potato Production, from Natural History Magazine, March 1947.”
ABC News reports on an unintended consequence of the war in Ukraine that’s creating a tricky situation far overhead. American astronaut Mark Vande Hei, currently serving aboard… Read the rest “Russia’s war reaches into space, leaving an American astronaut potentially stranded.”
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