The Scientist magazine investigates what’s going on inside the skulls of the tiniest terrestrial mammals. Etruscan shrews, it turns out, cope with winter’s demands by getting… Read the rest “Shrews can shrink and regrow their brains.”
University of Arkansas is encouraging us to delete that app and stop feeding the feeds. A national study led by Dr. Brian Primack, dean of the College of Education and Health Professions,… Read the rest “Social media use linked to increased depression risk.”
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A scorpionfly from the Miocene shales of Colorado, as the caption says in the Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution from June 30, 1953. I found… Read the rest “Science Art: Holcorpa Maculosa Scudder”
Scientific American looks at a new round of tests that ravens as young as 4 months old have passed with flying colors, outwitting adult great apes (almost) in math, following cues, and other… Read the rest “Young ravens equal grown-up chimps on IQ tests.”
Science News reports on a twisty debate on human origins in North America, with a new analysis of stones embedded with microscopic bits of mastodon, apparently used by prehistoric chefs… Read the rest “Mastodon tenderizers shift human history in North America wayyy back… again.”
Reuters reports on the success of the Hayabusa2 mission. The spacecraft, gone for six years, has finally come home with stuff scooped from an asteroid… that may reveal how life came… Read the rest “After six years, an asteroid sample reaches Earth.”
These are prehistoric bone tools used by prehistoric humans, or “Cultural additions from the double grave of Oberkasssel,” as the title reads in German.… Read the rest “Science Art: Kulturbeigaben des Doppelgrabes von Oberkasssel, 1919.”
Science has the cheerful results of a study in the U.S. Pacific Northwest that found a compound from rubber tires – a chemical so common, researchers call it “ubiquitous”… Read the rest “Coho salmon are getting killed by road runoff contaminated with rubber-tire chemicals.”
Scientific Reports has some really remarkable 3D images (and printed replicas) of snakes, birds, and cats that were mummified by ancient Egyptians more than 2,000 years ago:
… Read the rest “New X-rays give an unprecedented look inside mummies.”Abstract:
Science News has a report on nanoneurosurgery, using super-small, magnetically controlled machines to encourage separated neuron fibers to make new connections:
… Read the rest “Tiny robots stitch nerves together”Engineers Eunhee
This is what our Sun looked like on Thanksgiving Day. There are sunspots across the lower right of the image, visible here as what sunspots actually are – very large… Read the rest “Science Art: Thanksgiving Day sunspots (SOHO EIT 171 Latest Image: 2020/11/26 13:00), by NASA & ESA”
Originally written for piano, but more haunting in this arrangement. Supported by a grant from the Polish Ministry of Culture.
She’s probably the highest-profile thereminist on the internet, and she’s not above sharing a little wisdom.
She also gives lessons over yonder: https://carolinaeyck.com/lessons… Read the rest “Thanksgiving Theremin: “How to play a scale on the theremin” – Carolina Eyck”
SONG: “Six Seconds”
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on Science News, 21 Oct 2020, “NASA’s OSIRIS-REx survived its risky mission to grab a piece of an asteroid”… Read the rest “SONG: Six Seconds”
An image of yeast, originally made by NASA (though the context is now unclear, since the web page Wikimedia Commons sourced the photo from no longer exists).
The name “Hefezellen”… Read the rest “Science Art: Hefezellen”
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