Smiling behind the mask
Scientific American shares (in an interview with facial expression and emotion researcher Ursula Hess, deputy dean at Humboldt University) some of the physiology behind a […]
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DNA testing the Dead Sea Scrolls
National Geographic gets physical clues about the parchment the Dead Sea Scrolls were written on – by DNA testing the fragmentary animal skins that these […]
To make hydrogen from water and sunlight, you need an efficient catalyst. Here’s a perfect one.
Nature looks at what it takes to make a 100 percent efficient catalyst for getting clean fuel from water: The largest potential source of renewable […]
Science Art: Demo-2 Launch: Setting Forth on a Historic Journey by NASA/Bill Ingalls
Click to embiggen A photo with maybe a little optimism. From NASA’s Image of the Day gallery description: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the […]
Dinosaur cannibals.
Popular Science makes some of the most terrifying creatures of prehistory even more terrifying with reconstructed evidence that flesh-eating dinosaurs got hungry enough to eat […]
These sea worms look sequined – so we named them after Elvis
Science News reviews the show-stopping submarine research that has gone behind the scenes with four species of sequined sea worms that have collectively been named […]
Science Art: Cephalopodes: Pl. III, 1889.
Click to embiggen Prince Albert I of Monaco was really into marine life, and used the royal yacht as a scientific research vessel. Here, from […]
SONG: In the Ring
SONG: “In the Ring”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Scientific American, 4 May 2020, “A Shiny Snack Bag’s Reflections Can Reconstruct the Room around It,” as used […]
Antarctica is turning green.
Reuters reports that, if we didn’t have enough proof that world is turning inside out, the so-called White Continent is now warm enough that its […]
Better bottles.
The Guardian looks forward to a time when our plastic bottles will be replaced with plant-based containers that turn into, essentially, mulch in a year: […]
Science Art: Devonian Marine Organisms, by Aleksandra Arkhipova, 2015
Click to embiggen vastly From the “Scientific Illustration” collection on Wikimedia Commons, where this image of trilobites and prehistoric shellfish has the following in-depth description: […]
One fatty meal can reduce your ability to focus.
Science Daily reports on Ohio State University research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that finds a single meal high in saturated fats, […]
Music of a pulsing star reveals its inner structure.
Nature looks inside pulsing stars – not pulsars, but a group called “δ Scuti stars” – that flicker in a regular enough pattern that astronomers […]
Pluto (probably) got whacked on one side so hard it jiggled on the other, thanks to a (partially) liquid center.
Scientific American shows how the dwarf planet at the fringes of our solar system was partially shaped by a cartoonish reaction to a major collision: […]
Science Art: Albumasar De magnis coniunctionibus, 1515
Click to embiggen Ja’far ibn Muḥammad Abū Ma’shar wrote a book – and published it in Venice. It was the place to be, and to […]