Where the meteors come from in August and November, as pictured in A new astronomy for beginners, 1898, as found on archive.org.
Something about this diagram reminds me… Read the rest “Science Art: Perihelion Parts of Orbits of the August and November Meteor-showers”
The Scientist has some satisfying news to ring in the New Year. The same genetic mechanism that boosts immunity to one lethal pandemic – the hemorrhagic fever known as Ebola –… Read the rest “The same genes that protect against Ebola also protect against COVID-19.”
Siberian Times has breaking news from practically before modern humans existed, when a baby woolly rhino got frozen in the permafrost layer that’s only melting now:
… Read the rest “Defrosting a woolly rhino (and its last supper).”The juvenile
Sci-News.com wants all of us to know that kangaroos, despite never having been domesticated, still want to let us know what they’re thinking:
… Read the rest “Kangaroos intentionally communicate with humans.”…[S]aid lead author Dr. Alan
This is a crinoid, a cousin to sea urchins, sea cucumbers and starfish. I suppose some of them have stalks like sea anemones, but these ones don’t! The image is from The Unstalked Crinoids… Read the rest “Science Art: Lamprometra protectus, ventral view of a specimen with 23 arms from Stat. 125., 1918”
BBC shares a video showing how February’s Perseverance Mars rover mission plans to start with an automated landing sequence engineers have dubbed “the seven minutes of terror”… Read the rest “NASA’s Mars rover trains for “seven minutes of terror.””
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SOURCE: Based on Science News, 19 Nov 2020, “50 years ago, scientists named Earth’s magnetic field as a suspect in extinctions”… Read the rest “SONG: Iron in the Sky”
Science News brings attention to male shortcomings and the gender’s creativity in overcoming them with a story about crickets who use leaves as megaphones, amplifying their mating… Read the rest “Male crickets use leaves to make themselves seem bigger… in THAT way, yes.”
Reuters reports on the inevitable – COVID-19 has finally been carried to a research station in the Antarctic, breaking out in more than 30 people stationed in the remote, icy continent… Read the rest “Coronavirus has reached Antarctica”
NASA has details on how to spot the Great Conjunction – the giant planets Jupiter and Saturn appearing almost as a single point of light shortly after sunset yesterday, today (the … Read the rest “Look southwest.”
As described on Wikimedia Commons (who got this diagram from the British Library), the image was “taken from page 100 of ‘Grundzüge der mathematischen Geographie… Read the rest “Science Art: In s is das Centrum fur den Meridian ANQ, 1857”
National Geographic shares new clues to an age-old puzzle, deciphering what exactly the cone-shaped objects on some people’s heads really were in ancient Egyptian paintings –… Read the rest “The mystery of ancient Egyptian head cones has been solved.”
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”
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