A lizard party, by Ernst Haeckel. Not jellyfish or diatoms or Lovecraftian marine creatures. Just lizards. Lots and lots of cold-blooded lizards.
A plate from Kunstformen… Read the rest “Science Art: Lizard (Lacertilia), by Ernst Haeckel.”
Space.com shares what we learned about how Earth’s gravity has affected 2020QG, a car-sized asteroid that became the closest to approach Earth without slamming into us:
… Read the rest “We just had the closest asteroid fly-by ever.”Early Sunday
Science Daily reports on radioactivity research that has found evidence that at least one mass extinction event in Earth’s history was caused not by an asteroid crash, but by cosmic… Read the rest “Supernovas have caused mass extinctions. (As if asteroids weren’t bad enough.)”
Science News reveals the one chemical that transforms harmless, solitary insects into a crop-destroying, famine-triggering locust swarm:
… Read the rest “The one molecule that turns grasshoppers into locusts.”Now, scientists have pinpointed a compound
A quizzical and curious sea bird, from Birds of America, presented by The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.
SONG: “Campfires”
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on Science Daily, 16 July 2020, “Solar Orbiter’s first images reveal ‘campfires’ on the Sun”… Read the rest “SONG: Campfires”
Science Daily looks to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, where the dwarf planet Ceres spins – and may serve as a vast reservoir for space travelers. NASA’s Dawn spacecraft… Read the rest “Ceres shines brightest where there’s salt water under the surface.”
PhysOrg reminds me here of a piece of jewelry my mother won at an auction, which she then gave to me to give to the lady of my affections. It was a pair of Victorian earrings made from human hair.… Read the rest “Spinning yarn from human skin”
Wired has a story that seems slightly obscure at first, but really strikes at the cornerstone of today’s internet. The main Dutch public broadcaster, Nederlandse Publieke Omroep,… Read the rest “Google, Facebook should be scared. Targeted ads shown to be less profitable than the old way.”
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It’s my mother’s birthday today. Here, nine glorious suns for a Leo.
They were photographed by the European Space Agency’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imager… Read the rest “Science Art: The many faces of the Sun from Solar Orbiter’s EUI and PHI instruments, 2020”
Science News has something (perhaps small, perhaps strange) to be optimistic about. The endangered river mussels of America’s eastern mountains might go back to cleaning their… Read the rest “We’re going to save the mussels of Appalachia. Yes, we are.”
Science magazines has some striking visualizations of the atomic bombing’s long-lasting repercussions in their latest issue – and have had their graphics managing editor,… Read the rest “We’re still looking at the effects of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
Science Daily shares research from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, that gives us a new handle on predicting when the worst solar flares will come, giving us enough extra… Read the rest “We’ve got a new way to predict solar flares.”
Science News dashes the popular image of sperm as swimming furiously by spinning their tails like boat propellers. Instead, the little guys only move their tails in one direction, and keep… Read the rest “Sperm do lopsided barrel-rolls. They don’t have propeller tails.”
The moon is a body in space that reflects the light of our sun back at us. Which might sound a little weird to say, but this picture does make it all a little easier to grasp.
It’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Phases of the Moon, 1844.”
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