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Google researchers created a time crystal inside a quantum computer.

16 August 2021 grant 0

Quanta Magazine reports on the creation – using a cutting-edge quantum computer – of something very close to a perpetual-motion machine, a kind of matter that changes between… Read the rest “Google researchers created a time crystal inside a quantum computer.”

Scientific illustration of Libya and the International Space Station... by the ISS

Science Art: ISS031-E-59517 (Libya: PAN-TRIPOLITANIA, CYRENAICA, G. SIDRA, ISS)

15 August 2021 grant 0

This view of North Africa, the Mediterranean Sea, and the curvature of the Earth was taken by the ISS on May 19, 2012. The station was looking down from 218 nautical miles (404km) overhead.… Read the rest “Science Art: ISS031-E-59517 (Libya: PAN-TRIPOLITANIA, CYRENAICA, G. SIDRA, ISS)”

Our galaxy is warped. Just a little.

11 August 2021 grant 0

Science reports that the Milky Way isn’t quite as flat, edge-on, as we thought. It’s got a slight but detectable S-curve, like a piece of warping plywood:

To make the map, astronomers

… Read the rest “Our galaxy is warped. Just a little.”
Scientific illustration of a cannonball trajectory, showing the arc of flight.

Science Art: Flight Trajectory by Walther Hermann Ryff, 1582.

9 August 2021 grant 0

An illustration from a book the title of which begins Bawkunst Oder Architectur aller fürnemsten/ Nothwendigsten/ angehœrigen Mathematischen vnd Mechanischen Kuensten/ eygentlicher… Read the rest “Science Art: Flight Trajectory by Walther Hermann Ryff, 1582.”

Viable sperm sent on a postcard

6 August 2021 grant 0

New Scientist opens a new, fertile field of biological research with the discovery at Japan’s University of Yamanashi that it’s possible to freeze-dry viable sperm and stick… Read the rest “Viable sperm sent on a postcard”

The Gulf Stream *might* be collapsing already.

5 August 2021 grant 0

The Guardian, a British paper, opens itself to the possibility of a near-Arctic future England after looking at some cold, hard facts. The Gulf Stream, scientists warn, is showing some … Read the rest “The Gulf Stream *might* be collapsing already.”

Bees on java.

3 August 2021 grant 0

Scientific American marvels at caffeinated bumblebees, and the researchers who give busy bees caffeine and sugar to make them more focused and efficient:

[University of Greenwich ecologist

… Read the rest “Bees on java.”
Scientific illustration of a falcon's head, showing the ears of a bird of prey.

Science Art: Head of Falcon, Showing Beak, Nostril, Eye, and Ear…, 1889

1 August 2021 grant 0

From an impressive page of bird diagrams in the Rand, McNally & Co.’s Encyclopedia and Gazetteer. “Birds are in some ways the highest of vertebrate animals,” … Read the rest “Science Art: Head of Falcon, Showing Beak, Nostril, Eye, and Ear…, 1889”

“Willful” control of the brain’s feel-good chemical.

31 July 2021 grant 0

Science Daily shows how UC-Davis researchers are teaching mice how to consciously control the dopamine in their brains, turning on the reward centers of their brain… in order to … Read the rest ““Willful” control of the brain’s feel-good chemical.”

Why are these Patagonian lakes turning pink?

31 July 2021 grant 0

The only answer is “We don’t really know,” but as Reuters explains, that isn’t really good news however you look at it:

The lakes, located near an industrial park

… Read the rest “Why are these Patagonian lakes turning pink?”
Scientific illustration of the Mars helicopter Ingenuity in flight.

Science Art: Black and White Image From Ingenuity‘s Third Flight, April 2021.

25 July 2021 grant 0

This is a photo taken by the Mars helicopter Ingenuity‘s navigational camera. Although it doesn’t say so in the NASA image gallery where I found the photo, I’m pretty… Read the rest “Science Art: Black and White Image From Ingenuity‘s Third Flight, April 2021.”

SONG: Listening

23 July 2021 grant 0

SONG: “Listening”.

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Scientific American, 13 July 21, “The Neuroscience of Taking Turns in a Conversation,” as used in the post “… Read the rest “SONG: Listening”

Tomato plants have a kind of nervous system.

21 July 2021 grant 0

New Scientist reports on research at the Federal University of Pelotas in Brazil, where Gabriela Niemeyer Reissig and colleagues have found that tomatoes being eaten by insects send electrical… Read the rest “Tomato plants have a kind of nervous system.”

A square meter of concrete can store the electricity of two AA batteries.

21 July 2021 grant 0

Scientific American looks at a weird new power source, using probably the most common building material in the modern world as a kind of rechargeable battery:

Experimental concrete batteries

… Read the rest “A square meter of concrete can store the electricity of two AA batteries.”
Scientific illustration of a 1960s computer system, the Control Data 210, as seen in a magazine advertisement.

Science Art: Car 5400, where are you?, 1965.

18 July 2021 grant 0

This is an advertisement in the back of the May/June 1965 issue of Information Display, the journal of the Society for Information Display. It’s a technical magazine for computer… Read the rest “Science Art: Car 5400, where are you?, 1965.”

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