Caribbean whales have viruses we’ve never heard of.
Science Daily reports on pilot whales and orcas in the Caribbean which DNA analysis has revealed are carrying “invisible” viruses we’ve never detected before: The […]
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Why is your brain so tired?
Nature reports on new findings about the roots of mental fatigue — which has implications not just for generally feeling worn out, but also for […]
Pink Power Ranger hacker breaks white power websites.
CyberNews reports on Martha Root, a pseudonymous hacker who single-handedly infiltrated and shut down a series of websites dedicated to white power: The leak affects […]
Science Art: The Poultry of the World, 1868
Fifty-two breeds of chickens! This is an educational poster from the 1800s, published by L. Prang & Co., Boston, the makers of “Prang’s American Chromos: […]
Deer pee glows during mating season
Science ran a festive piece of research during the longest nights of winter, with biologists who’ve found that male white-tailed deer mark their territory during […]
Science Art: Diagram of the Comparative Sizes of the Planets, 1895
This is one of the 10 illustrations by Dan Beard for John Jacob Aster’s book A Journey In Other Worlds. Well, actually it’s the one […]
Reversing Alzheimer’s? In mice at least….
Science Daily shared news from University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center about mice trials that demonstrate memories actually being restored as brain energy levels are brought […]
SONG: Nine Lives to Rigel Five (a penitential Game Theory cover)
SONG: “Nine Lives to Rigel Five (a penitential Game Theory cover)”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This is not based on scientific research; it’s […]
Science Art: NIH- NCI cancer research
An image of a cell, a neoplasm, from the National Institute of Health’s National Library of Medicine, the “Images from the History of Medicine” collection. […]
Hold fire in this house bubble wrap
Gizmodo had a piece on a new heat-insulating film that’s so efficient, you can hold open flames in your hands and not be burned: Physicists […]
Science Art: Akrobati, Lokální těžiště a hmotnosti, 2016
Biomechanics, with acrobats. A photo illustration by Karel Frydrýšek. The description, translated from Czech, reads: “Four acrobats, chosen coordinate system, local center of gravity and […]
Ultrablack dress made from bird-feather tech.
Nature Communications has research from Cornell ornithologists and material engineers who created a new blacker-than-black dress that’s breathable and stretchable, because it’s made from natural […]
Science Art: ORDEN DE LOS SIGNOS DEL ZODIACO, 1614.
From Theatro del mvndo, y del tiempo, which I’ve mentioned here before but have accessed yonder, on archive.org. This is a chart of the human […]
Bright lichens reveal dino bones
Science News reports on a colorful breakthrough in dinosaur hunting, thanks to two lichen species that prefer to grow on dinosaur bones and are a […]
Butt breathing for when lungs fail
Science News reports on medical doctor and stem cell biologist Takanori Takebe’s quest to build a back-door alternative to invasive, awkward ventilator machines for pneumonia […]