Popular Science shares a postcard of Mars taken up-close and personal by China’s Tianwen-1 probe as it enters orbit around the Red Planet:
… Read the rest “China’s Mars probe is sending back pictures.”The five-ton craft carries an orbiter,
Pulleys and rope, arranged to make lifting heavy weights easier. I’ve been messing around with boats lately, lowering a 30-foot mast with a lot of help. Pulleys … Read the rest “Science Art: Tackles, 1905.”
Discover reports on a dedicated little space probe that’s still writing home to NASA (using 11 vital instruments) after four decades of hurtling away from home:
… Read the rest “Voyager 1 has kept in touch for 40 years.”6. Low-Energy Charged
MIT News looks at the new science of tissue engineering, taking lab-grown cells and training them to grow objects to order:
… Read the rest ““Just grow a table.””It takes a lot to make a wooden table. Grow a tree, cut it down, transport
NPR introduces us to a 42-foot-long stranger, the Rice’s whale. The mysterious species is large in size, but small in number, hanging out in off the Redneck Riviera and not bothering… Read the rest “There’s a new whale in the Gulf of Mexico. A whole new species, in fact.”
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This was how people catalogued birdsongs in the 1930s, with a giant acoustic dish. And then they transferred them to phonograph discs, so everyone could listen.… Read the rest “Science Art: Hunting with a Sound Camera, by William Vogt, 1933.”
Scientific American has looked at the fossil record and found it wanting. Instead of there being a regular pattern of mass extinctions (like the death of the dinosaurs) followed by the rise… Read the rest “Maybe mass extinctions *don’t* lead to a great flowering of new life forms.”
Reuters reveals a new technique to strengthen ordinary concrete by imitating the criss-cross pattern of lobster shells:
… Read the rest “Lobster-shell patterns make concrete stronger.”Reinforced with steel fibres, the concrete becomes more durable
This is not an alien forest. It is also not a picture of the COVID19 virus. It’s an illustration from 2016 of another coronavirus, and specifically of the spike proteins… Read the rest “Science Art: Coronavirus spike protein structure, by David Veesler, University of Washington,2016”
SONG: “In the Albatross Museum”
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on Science Friday, 8 Jan 2021, “Giant, Toothed Birds Once Ruled The Skies”, as used in the post “The… Read the rest “SONG: In the Albatross Museum.”
The BBC reports on a new use for space hardware: training computers to count elephant populations from 370 miles overhead to keep them from hurtling into extinction:
… Read the rest “Counting elephants from space: satellite conservation.”The breakthrough could
Science Friday remembers the mysteriously vanished pelagornithids – birds that, we now know, once ruled the skies with toothy beaks and a wingspan twice the size of the modern albatross… Read the rest “The toothy mega-albatross”
On May 25, 2010 at 17 :35 UTC, this was the weather off the North Pacific island called Isla Socorro: Partly cloudy with scattered spirals.
The interesting thing about truly… Read the rest “Science Art: Cloud Vortices off Isla Socorro (Detail) by NASA Goddard Photo and Video”
The Guardian (among other sources) reports on cave paintings on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi that push back the earliest known art made by Homo sapiens to a date about 15,000 years before… Read the rest “Our oldest art is a picture of a pig.”
Discover surveys the state of the research into deep-brain stimulation (DBS), using electrical implants to treat conditions from Parkinson’s to chronic pain, OCD, depression… Read the rest “A pacemaker for your brain.”
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