LiveScience (via ScienceAlert) is puzzling over two polished stone spheres found in a Neolithic site on the isle of Sanday in the Orkneys. The stones resemble similar finds across Scandinavia… Read the rest “Strange, ancient Scottish balls.”
Science reports on an Icelandic project going to a whole new level – they’re following the Krafla Volcano’s path and digging beyond the Earth’s crust into magma… Read the rest “Drilling for magma.”
This is a picture of bones, the mineral density of bones, giving us a hint of their interior structures.
From the NIH Image Gallery description:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Dlx3 deletion in osteoblast progenitors induce increased trabecular bone formation, 2015.”This image shows micro computed tomograophy
The Guardian reports on Swiss scientists who have taken ordinary wood floor planks, coated them with silicon and embedded nanocrystals, and then stepped on them to generate enough electricity… Read the rest “Wooden flooring that generates electricity.”
Scientific American looks at babble and finds it comprehensible, thanks to language researchers who have learned that nonsense sounds imply the same concepts to listeners with different… Read the rest “Made-up sounds convey meaning across cultures.”
Smithsonian Magazine reveal the probable history of a mummy found in the Egyptian temple of Taposiris Magna who was preserved with a tongue-shaped amulet made of gold foil in their mouth… Read the rest “Mummified with a golden tongue, in order to speak sweetly in death.”
This is a painting for NASA of the formation of a distant solar system, used to illustrate the article “Formation of the Solar System: Birth of Worlds.”
It’s showing … Read the rest “Science Art: Exocomets Around Beta Pictoris – Artist View, 2013.”
Massive Science is celebrating nether regions this September, and kicked off their observances with a report on actual research at Tokyo Medical and Dental University that may someday… Read the rest ““Enteral ventilation” is a fancy way of saying “breathing through your butt.” Which we can maybe do.”
Scientific American reports on new advances made by a team of Portuguese researchers toward getting electricity from the endless motion of the ocean:
… Read the rest “Wave power is surging ahead.”Waves alone produce 32,000 terawatt-hours
This is the frontispiece to A New Astronomy for Beginners, by David P. Todd, an 1897 textbook on the latest astronomical breakthroughs. The passage on page 298 about total eclipses says … Read the rest “Science Art: Total Eclipse of the Sun (from a painting by Kranz), 1897”
Quartz reports on a major move toward a cleaner, carbon-neutral future:
… Read the rest “The world’s largest shipping firm is putting $1.4 billion into sustainable engines.”The ships will be built by Hyundai Heavy Industries and are due to be delivered by 2024, each at a price tag of $175 million,
SONG: “Curling at the Edges”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Science, 1 Aug 19, “The Milky Way is more warped than astronomers thought,” as used in the post “Our… Read the rest “SONG: Curling at the Edges”
From the June 1949 issue of Natural History, the magazine of the American Museum of Natural History (which is archived here) comes a handy reference guide for telling the temperature based… Read the rest “Science Art: The Cricket Thermometer, by Cleve Hallenbeck.”
Science magazine celebrates a test result from the National Ignition Laboratory that brings us all one step closer to cheap, clean energy by using lasers to compress a “fuel capsule”… Read the rest “One step closer to a laser-powered fusion reactor.”
Houston Methodist Neurological Institute is proud to share the results of the first human trial of a magnet helmet that generates an oscillating magnetic field that appears to have successfully… Read the rest “A magnetic helmet (that you can wear at home) just shrank a brain tumor.”
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