Science Art: Water-voles, 1911.
This is a pair of water-voles looking ready for a Wind in the Willows-style adventure, only without any waistcoats or trousers. They’re featured in a […]
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Satellites spot the biggest methane sources. (They’re not cows.)
New Scientist looks down from on high with Europe’s Tropomi satellite and finds clusters of climate-altering methane “super emitters” – places where the greenhouse gas […]
The guy who took down North Korea’s internet.
Wired recently ran a fun story about one man making a difference – a cybersecurity guy named P4x, who noticed that state-sponsored North Korean hackers […]
These recycled lithium-ion batteries are outperforming new ones.
IEEE Spectrum reports on a research team that has created a new method for recycling the environmentally risky chemicals used in lithium-ion batteries – the […]
Science Art: 5c The Sciences single, U.S. Postal Service, 1963.
An image of science in the abstract, the spirit of science as imagined at the dawn of the Space Age, from the National Postal Museum, […]
Programming computers to find Antarctic meteorites.
Science magazine explains how that big southerly continent has become the best place to find meteorites, and how those ancient fallen rocks offer priceless clues […]
Something in space is getting really bright three times an hour.
Science Daily reports on a deep space mystery that the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research is trying to figure out – namely, what this […]
Little green lights could save sharks and turtles while keeping fisheries in business.
Science magazine reports on one of those simple fixes that could make everything a little bit better if only everyone would sign on. Scientists have […]
SONG: In Pompeii
SONG: “In Pompeii”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Scientific American 6 Dec 2021, “Pompeii’s Ruins to Be Reconstructed by Robot,” as used in the post ‘A robot […]
Science Art: Randel’s Improved Combination Press, 1860
From Scientific American, December 1, 1860, an issue that also has a patent by Abraham Lincoln for lifting riverboats over obstacles, and a note on […]
Quantum particles are affected by gravity fields they never touch.
Science News has more mysteries from the subatomic realm, with the discovery that electrons and other quantum particles can be moved by forces they never […]
Multiple sclerosis is triggered by the mononucleosis virus – they proved it.
Scientific American hails a breakthrough in fighting MS with the definitive discovery that the Epstein-Barr virus, which causes mononucleosis and which 95% of American adults […]
Self-driving tractor ready for remote-control farming.
CNet reports on John Deere’s invention of an autonomous robot tractor you can control with your smartphone: “It takes a while to get comfortable because […]
The first hybrid humans ever bred was a kunga.
Science News takes us back 4,500 years to ancient Syria, where domesticated donkeys and wild asses called “hemippes” were bred together for war – as […]
Science Art: Section of a Comet’s Path, 1933
This illustration, from Natural History Magazine, shows the way the comet of 1843 (or Comet 1843, if you prefer) reached its closest point to the […]