It’s an avocado, an aguacate, also known as an alligator pear in English and a “lawyer pear” in Dutch. This is a Taft variety, an ancestor of the Lula … Read the rest “Science Art: Persea: Taft, by Royal Charles Steadman, 1914.”
Science shares a study that found microdoses of psychedelic mushrooms really do work to boost creativity and create feelings of well-being… but so did inert placebo doses:
… Read the rest “Psych study: Microdosing really works. But so do placebos.”Placebo-controlled
Nature reports on a new milestone in the quest for true randomness – a quality that’s vitally useful in things like data security and models of chaotic systems like, say, hurricanes… Read the rest “A quickly random bow tie, and why that’s important.”
Science magazine looks at a mini-brain in a mini-jar – a cluster of stem cells coaxed into forming an “organoid,” a clump of cells that start taking on the functions of… Read the rest “Brain-cell clusters can mimic a newborn’s brain.”
From the Library of Congress, we find a diagram of astrophysics equipment from the 19th century. It’s not a telescope. It’s a device designed to disprove … Read the rest “Science Art: Diagram of interferometer and four mirrors mounted on stone floating in mercury…, 1887”
Archaeology magazine looks at a cow bone engraved with runic letters around 600 CE in the southern Czech Republic – a discovery that indicates that Slavic people first wrote using… Read the rest “Slavs first wrote with runes.”
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SOURCE: Based on Science News, 4 Feb 2021, “A new chameleon species may be the world’s tiniest reptile”, as used in the post “Just… Read the rest “SONG: Small”
AP News is reporting that America has caught up with Scotland in the clone wars. They cloned Dolly the Sheep, and now we’ve cloned an endangered black-footed ferret using DNA from … Read the rest “America is cloning ferrets.”
As most folks know, today’s English bulldog is an animal that has been, as they say, “overbred.” They have beautiful temperaments as a rule, and can barely breathe, … Read the rest “Science Art: Leavitt Bulldog body diagram, 2013”
Discover pulls back the curtain on an archaeological debate over some pits in the ground in Israel – holes that show traces of 13,000-year-old fermentation that was brewed up next… Read the rest “Was it beer, or was it bread? Made for the living or made for the dead?”
Science magazine reveals the secret to cellular survival for a chunk of human brain that didn’t rot for more than two and half millennia after its owner was beheaded:
… Read the rest “A piece of human brain survived 2,600 years.”Using several
NSF’s NOIRLab looks at a body that the Gemini Observatory spotted in 2018 and that astronomers working at Hawaii’s Subaru telescope nicknamed Farfarout. Now, they’ve… Read the rest “Farfarout is as far, far out as you can get (and still be in the Solar System).”
Next week, on February 18, this little chopper will touch down on Mars with the Perseverance rover. Then, a little while later, it’ll take off for a few seconds. Then a few more. Then… Read the rest “Science Art: Ingenuity Mars helicopter, by NASA/JPL-Caltech”
Scientific American wonders whether we’ve just spotted a new planet orbiting Alpha Centauri, our sun’s nearest neighbor. If it’s there, that potential planet is … Read the rest “Alpha Centauri’s possible planet: a warm Neptune, a very large Earth.”
Science News shows off a critter from Madagascar that is very small, yet enormously cute. You have to see this. Click the link to meet Brookesia nana, a newly discovered chameleon that might… Read the rest “Just discovered: world’s tiniest reptile.”
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