Researchers publishing in the Journal of Natural Products have basically opened the door to pot being the next ivermectin with a finding that orally active extracts of Cannabis sativa… Read the rest “Cannabis chemicals block covid virus (in the lab, at least).”
This is a drawing of a drawing, a likeness of a bison engraved on cave floor at Niaux.
The likeness is part of the Wellcome Collection, but the original is where it’s been for around 14,000… Read the rest “Science Art: Magdalenian engraving of bison”
Scientific American interviews two Indiana University researchers, Debby Herbenick and Tsung-chieh (Jane) Fu, who’ve found that folks of all ages are getting a little less busy… Read the rest “People are having less sex.”
Science News looks at the long-term implications of the “Great Green Wall,” a proposed belt of tree-plantings intended to block the southward spread of the Sahara Desert.… Read the rest “Thinking through what the Great Green Wall will do.”
This is another unusual perspective of a space vessel in flight, though slightly less rare than the top-down image posted here on 28 November. We’re looking up at a United Launch Alliance… Read the rest “Science Art: Laser Communications Relay Demonstration Lifts Off!, by NASA/Joel Kowsky, 7 Dec 2021”
Scientific American reports on a project using autonomous robots to reassemble the smallest fragments of the ruins of Pompeii:
… Read the rest “A robot will be rebuilding Pompeii from fragments”Their project—dubbed RePAIR (Reconstructing the Past:
Princeton researchers are looking at the fast-growing lungs of ordinary, common lizards called brown anoles to find way to quickly create replacement lungs for humans in need of transplants… Read the rest “Studying lizard lungs to build replacement human lungs.”
Ars Technica takes us to the technological front of the culture war with a truly absurd story about “quantum pendants” that supposedly neutralize 5G radio waves with negative… Read the rest “Pendants marketed as “Anti 5G” are actually radioactive.”
I can’t make out exactly what this is illustrating. My Spanish is barely good enough to tell, in section 309 of Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora’s Libra astronomica, y philosophica… Read the rest “Science Art: Comet observations from Libra astronomica, y philosophica by Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora, 1690.”
SONG: “Fast Blue Optical Transients”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Science News 13 Dec 2021, “The cosmic ‘Cow’ may have produced a new neutron star or black hole,”… Read the rest “SONG: Fast Blue Optical Transients”
New Scientist reports on the best-preserved dinosaur embryo ever discovered, inside a 70 million-year-old egg that had been stored in Yingliang Stone Natural History Museum in Nan’an,… Read the rest ““Exquisitely preserved” dinosaur embryo discovered inside fossilized egg in museum storeroom.”
SONG: “Deeper Than Love (a penitential Colleen Green cover)”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: There is no scientific source. This is a penitential cover of this Colleen Green song… Read the rest “SONG: Deeper Than Love (a penitential Colleen Green cover)”
Two moths, pictured in The Field Book of Insects by Frank E. Lutz.
A. io, with the big roundels on its wings, is better known as the io moth. D. rubicunda is more commonly called the rosy maple… Read the rest “Science Art: Auiomeris io, Dryocampa rubicunda by Edna Libby Beutenmüller, 1918.”
Science News shares an explanation for an intense puzzle that’s had astronomers searching for solutions since June 2018. Now, astrophysicist DJ Pasham and his team believe “The… Read the rest “Bright and really heavy: What “The Cow” caused in deep space.”
Australia’s RMIT University is excited by the prospects of a surface that kills bacteria on its own, without any antiseptics being applied – a new form of copper that can eliminate… Read the rest “Bacteria-killing copper fights superbug spread”
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