New Scientist reports on a new material that conducts electricity with no resistance whatsoever at room temperature – something electronics and electrical engineers have been… Read the rest “New superconductor has zero resistance at room temperature. With one catch….”
LiveScience answers that question: because a female mole’s underground life is brutal:
… Read the rest “Why do female moles grow testicles?”Just like a more typical mammalian ovary, ovotestes nurture and release eggs for fertilization.
This is a cartoon inspired by “the experiences of Santos-Dumont,” the famed Brazilian-born aviator who maybe might have kind of sort of had a powered flight… Read the rest “Science Art: Chasse à courre en dirigeable, by Albert Guillaume.”
Defector, a media outlet I’m rooting for, basically came to be when a bunch of Deadspin staffers refused to follow the corporate edict, “Stick to sports.” Well, they’re… Read the rest “Nobel CRISPR research as a sporting competition – or a war.”
Science magazine takes focus on a new form of microscopy, using DNA like a microscope to look inside cells:
… Read the rest “Using DNA to take snapshots of cells”To make the DNA microscope, postdoc Joshua Weinstein of the Broad Institute of
In some ways, Cornwall seems to me like Britain’s Florida – a peninsula that juts into the Gulf Stream, with water warm enough that they’ve got populations of palm trees… Read the rest “Spaceport Cornwall?”
Science News plunges into the dark, icy depths to discover how it is that phytoplankton, which convert sunlight to energy, survive and even thrive under the ice in the long, lightless Arctic… Read the rest “Light-loving algae survive, trapped under dark Arctic ice.”
The Marquis d’Oró (without that accent mark, he’d be the Marquis of Gold) has a coat of arms with a diagram of the molecule adenine in it, on the sinister side… Read the rest “Science Art: Escut del Marquès d’Oró (Escutcheon of the Marquis d’Oró)”
Defense One reports on a new U.S. Air Force and Special Operations Command (SOCOM) program, using artificial intelligence to counter “information space” pollution –… Read the rest “Artificial intelligence is being programmed to spot disinformation – by the military.”
Science magazine shares an anatomical survey of birds’ brains that reveals details of the brain section that appears to function like our cerebral cortex – giving birds a … Read the rest “They’ve mapped the part of a bird’s brain that gives them consciousness like ours.”
Science News checks out yet another disaster, though one on a smaller scale and a bit closer to the ground than most, as armies of Asian jumping worms are suddenly exploding across America’s… Read the rest “Now America is being invaded by jumping worms.”
Science News reports on a new record – three hours and 42 minutes underwater without coming up for air – set by a Cuvier’s beaked whale:
… Read the rest “Can you hold your breath for more than 3 1/2 hours? This guy can.”Cuvier’s beaked whales (Ziphius
Among all the diagrams of force-vectors, there’s this wonderful illustration of a well-made machine in A Text-Book of Applied Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering, on archive.org… Read the rest “Science Art: Single-Acting Force Pump with Ball Valves, 1903.”
SONG: “Collisions”
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SOURCE: Based on BBC, 2 Sep 2020, “Black holes: Cosmic signal rattles Earth after 7 billion years”, as used in the post “A… Read the rest “SONG: Collisions”
Science News reports on an ostracod fossil that’s 100 million years old – and contains a a recognizable sample of its giant sperm:
… Read the rest “We’ve found the world’s oldest sperm. And it’s big.”A single piece of amber from Myanmar held 39
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