Swill-pail hogs from upstate New York, as featured on the front page of Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, a delightful paper that promised “Agriculture, Horticulture,… Read the rest “Science Art: Genesee County Hogs of the “Swill-Pail Breed,” from Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, March 22, 1862”
Inverse covers an invention that should invisibly make a difference in some of the world’s hungriest communities, beating back malnutrition-based diseases with super-tiny capsules… Read the rest “Microscopic nutrient doses to solve malnutrition. (With Bill Gates as a lab rat.)”
From SportDiver‘s “Ask a Marine Biologist” column comes a question about a band that might have lost some human relevance, but is still aiming for the potentially lucrative… Read the rest “Yes, KISS is actually having a concert for sharks.”
A nerve, an electric cell, a node in a network.
A place and size where electricity meets chemistry inside our bodies. This appears to be an illustration of synapses… Read the rest “Science Art: Neuron Matrix, by Nicolas P. Rougier”
ABC News (Australia) shares the findings of a Mexican expedition that has discovered a trove of mammoth bones in what appears to have been a pair of pits dug by humans to be prehistoric mammoth… Read the rest “The 15,000-year-old Mexican mammoth trap.”
Ars Technica is (or rather, researchers they’re reporting on are) quietly taking over Alexa and other smart-home devices with inaudible – and sometimes invisible –… Read the rest “Silently hacking Alexa with a laser. (And Siri and Google Home too.)”
Nature has research (from Joule) that brings us closer to an electric filling station for battery-powered cars, thanks to the discovery that raising the temperature makes it possible … Read the rest “Hot electric-car batteries recharge in 10 minutes.”
UCF, the University of Central Florida, is the university closest to the Kennedy Space Center, and has a rivalry with the *other* space-launch city, Houston, that’s… Read the rest “Science Art: UCF Space Game football uniform, 2019”
Nature reveals research in Science and Science Immunology that describes a one hidden risk of measles – that by catching it, you’ll also become more vulnerable to diseases… Read the rest “Measles makes your immune system forget what it’s defeated before.”
Science News takes appreciation of American whiskeys to a whole new level – a teeny-tiny one. Researchers publishing in Physical Review Fluids found that bourbons, unlike other… Read the rest “Bourbons have microscopic signatures. (In a way that scotches don’t.)”
Nature rounds up a “rash of fossil finds” revealing the lives of the first mammals, shedding a little more light on how our forebears survived the extinction of the dinosaurs… Read the rest “A new look at the mammals who lived with dinosaurs”
Major John Wesley Powell was a soldier and explorer, a geologist and a professor who led the first government expedition down the Grand Canyon – traveling part of… Read the rest “Science Art: Major John Wesley Powell’s Boat, the Emma Dean, 1871.”
Science News investigates the benefits of carving monumental heads and burying their bottom halves in the ground. It seems like they might have had a ceremonial purpose linked to farming… Read the rest “Easter Island statues made farms more fertile”
Science magazine explores the gut-brain connection further with a study that finds gut bacteria can help us get over our fear responses… unless antibiotics have wiped them out: … Read the rest “Gut bacteria can help the brain conquer fear; antibiotics can make PTSD recovery harder.”
SONG: “Multicellular”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Science News, 17 October 2019, “Acrobatic choanoflagellates could help explain how multicellularity evolved,”… Read the rest “SONG: Multicellular”
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