Science News has started a vetted Frequently Asked Questions page about the virus that’s on everyone’s mind now. It’s located here, but the most fun question and answer… Read the rest “Some COVID-19 answers from Science News.”
Science News is following the progress of China’s Chang’e-4 lander and Yutu-2 rover as they discover all sorts of new things about the layers of the moon’s farside – the part… Read the rest “China’s rover scoots around the dark side of the moon.”
Electronics in 1916, from an article on making headphones for receiving radio transmissions in QST, the amateur wireless magazine of the The American Radio … Read the rest “Science Art: Amplifying Receiver, Sketch 1, April 1916”
Fans of the scaly anteater otherwise known as the pangolin can take heart in Nature‘s latest report, that might not have been the source of coronavirus after all. But then what was?:… Read the rest “Possible pangolin exoneration as coronavirus source.”
Science News reports on the humble jellyfish-relative that lives in the bodies of Pacific salmon and undersea worms, and gets along fine without any mitochondria – the part of a cell… Read the rest “A salmon parasite can survive without oxygen, without mitochondria, and with a lot of mystery.”
SONG: “Young and Stupid”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: The Guardian, 3 February 2020, “Girls beginning puberty almost a year earlier than in 1970s,” as used in the… Read the rest “SONG: “Young and Stupid””
Astronauts gotta learn how to astronaut.
This is from a NASA document from 1960 called Technical Note D-546: Experience with a Three-Axis Side-Located Controller During… Read the rest “Science Art: Block diagram illustrating the simulator setup and primary tracking task, 1960.”
The Guardian looks at the slightly puzzling change in the age girls reach puberty around the world:
… Read the rest “Girls really are growing up quicker – biologically speaking.”For girls, experts say the best marker of the start of puberty is the development of glandular
Science News digs into the science behind leaving the world a slightly more fertile place when you go, by having your body naturally composted after death:
… Read the rest “Compost burials really work.”The results, presented February
Scientific American introduces us to a a couple of black holes named Spikey:
… Read the rest “They found a merging pair of black holes. And they named the formation “Spikey.””In 2017 astrophysicists Daniel D’Orazio and Rosanne Di Stefano detailed how a pair of soon to merge supermassive
These are from Die acraspeden Medusen der deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition: 1898-1899, the first of two volumes on jellyfish written by Ernst Vanhöffen, a jellyfish scholar… Read the rest “Science Art: Taf. II: Palephyra indica, Atorella subglobosa, Sanderia malayensis, 1902.”
Nature shares the wonder of Arrakoth, the object once known as 2014 MU69, in the Kuiper Belt beyond Pluto, the most distant world we’ve studied up close. It was observed by the New Horizons… Read the rest “A red snowman, past the orbit of Pluto”
National Geographic revels in the grisly remains of a killer found in a museum cabinet – bones that turned out to belong to a prehistoric predator that’s revealing a lot about… Read the rest “New “reaper of death” tyrannosaur discovered in Canada.”
Sounds almost too Hollywood to be true, but Science News is covering some unexpected findings from a Japanese particle accelerator, where researchers say chaotic little particles called… Read the rest “A particle called a “kaon” might just rewrite the rules of subatomic physics.”
This is a video of a mouse, not yet born, that already has some issues; specifically “Waardenburg-Anophthalmia Syndrome.” It’s originally… Read the rest “Science Art: Optical projection tomography: OPT analysis of Smoc1 expression in wild-type E9.5 mouse embryo, 2011”
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