Archaeologists danced for six hours straight – for science.
Archaeology reports on University of Helsinki researchers who held a dance marathon to find out the truth about prehistoric relics: auditory archaeologist Riitta Rainio and […]
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A wooden satellite.
The European Space Agency is prepping payloads for a Finnish-built satellite made of wood with aluminum rails for launching and meatal “selfie stick” for a […]
One vaccination against TB, diabetes, and MS?
Science News reports on the BCG vaccine, short for Bacillus Calmette-Guérin. Originally, it was a treatment to prevent tuberculosis, but now it’s showing promise for […]
Science Art: Cypress root system exposed 4 feet deep by wave action…, 1915.
Today, Folklore Twitter is celebrating #SwampSunday, so I thought I’d slip this stately scientific illustration into my queue. This is what’s going on underneath that […]
Sending baby squid to the space station.
BBC reports on a NASA project that’s transporting cute little cephalopods into orbit, launching 128 baby bobtail squid and 5,000 tardigrades to the International Space […]
Today’s batteries are better.
Ars Technica busts a long-running myth about batteries – that they’re always five years away from any real improvement – with a look at how […]
Science Art: Circular Twilight Halo at Sunrise (Kreisförmiger Dämmerungsschein Bei Sonnenaufgang) by Eduard Moritz Pechuël-Loesche, 1884
A soft and beautiful drawing of distant, unimaginable destruction. Eduard Moritz Pechuël-Loesche was a naturalist in Hereroland (now Namibia) when he painted this watercolor in […]
The world’s oldest tattoo gear.
Science News looks at some sharpened bones found at a site in Tennessee. They seem to be 3,600-year-old Native American tattoo tools: These pigment-stained bones […]
Wormholes in space and time could be engineered.
Scientific American reports on new findings about wormholes. Theoretically, these black hole-related phenomena make a great part of science fiction, giving people the ability to […]
SONG: Lawns are the Enemy
SONG: “Lawns are the Enemy”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Scientific American, 9 Apr 21, “Brood X Cicadas Could Cause a Bird Baby Boom,” as used in […]
Science Art: Alternator by Ganz & Co, 1905
This is a Wechselstrommaschine, an alternator. The wheel goes around, and the spokes hit contacts – one set makes the electricity go in one direction […]
Wild bees do $1.5 billion-worth of pollinating for six crops alone.
Science News looks beyond the domesticated honeybee for unsung pollination heroes: the bumblebees, mason bees, carpenter bees and other native bees that do an enormous […]
SONG: Science (a penitential cover)
SONG: “Science (a penitential cover)” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This has no scientific source data; it’s a penitential cover for being late for the April song. […]
Picture your hand writing a message, and this brain-implant computer will type it.
I’ll just copy the Science News headline here and say “Brain implants turn imagined handwriting into text on a screen“: A 65-year-old man had two […]
Science Art: Schematic illustration of skeleton of Glyptotherium arizonae (modified for Glyptotherium after Burrmeister and Hoffstetter), 1981.
The giant armadillo of Pleistocene-era Arizona, from David D. Gillette’s Smithsonian publication, Glyptodonts of North America, found on archive.org. Based on their teeth and joints, […]