Science News has a discovery that should at least change the way research methods and court examinations are carried out. Very young kids have an inherent bias toward selecting the last … Read the rest “Toddlers tend to choose the last item in a set… (file under “parenting” or maybe “preschool politics”)”
Business Insider lauds Fionn Ferreira, an 18-year-old who won the Google Science Fair (and a $50,000 pot) with a plan to use ferrofluid – magnetic liquid – to stick to microplastics… Read the rest “Irish kid wins big for plan to get rid of microplastics using magnets.”
From the Smithsonian Institutes’ National Air and Space Museum “Eyewitness to Space” collection, paintings from the years when NASA had fine artists… Read the rest “Science Art: Weather Delay, by Ferdinand Warren”
Eurekalert has details on a new anti-aging system that, according to University of Leeds researchers, resets older folks’ autonomic nervous system by stimulating the vagus nerve… Read the rest “Anti-aging electrotherapy zaps earlobes to reset nerves.”
LiveScience relates how impressed archaeologists are at the classiness of an Iron Age Celtic burial in what’s now Switzerland:
… Read the rest “Tree-coffin burial for a Celtic Swiss lady of prominence.”After studying the 2,200-year-old burial, archaeologists
Nature has an essay up by a disinformation researcher, who wants us to know that disinformation is usually partially true, and mostly spread by people who don’t realize it –… Read the rest “Disinformation is not false information, and it’s not manufactured. And it doesn’t want you to believe anything.”
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If it looks like a miniature sun, maybe that’s because on one level it is – it’s creating plasma, which surrounds it like a corona around the sun.… Read the rest “Science Art: Coronal plasma on an ionization tube in operation, by BentaxGermany, 2013”
LiveScience was among the outlets breathlessly describing our close encounter with a giant speeding space-rock that took us all by surprise:
… Read the rest “Last Thursday, a “city-killer” asteroid buzzed by Earth, and we had no clue it was coming.”Ranging in size from 187 to 427 feet (57 to 130
The New York Times reports on findings (from JAMA) that the people who’d complained of nausea, visual blurring and other effects after some strange events in America’s Cuban… Read the rest “The “sonic attack” in Cuba and China… definitely did something to diplomats’ brains. Literally.”
CNN was among the news outlets celebrating the discovery of a small, glow-in-the-dark shark species:
… Read the rest “The American pocket shark glows in the dark”The 5 1/2-inch American Pocket Shark is the first of its kind to be discovered in the
Because computers sometimes break, and replacement computers sometimes don’t work the way one expects them to, and because just setting up a recorder and recording a thing makes… Read the rest “No song – again!”
Galileo drew pictures of the moon – pictures that included imperfections on the surface. The moon, he observed, had texture. Hills and valleys. Craters.… Read the rest “Science Art: Galileo’s Moon Phases, 1616.”
Fortune reports on a new company that aims to keep supply chains secure in the era of 3D printing by using unique patterns of diamond dust scattered on manufactured parts to act as a unique … Read the rest ““Diamond-based security” low-tech foil for high-tech counterfeiters”
Hakai takes a sociological look at an ecological problem, with research that shows marine environments are measurably healthier in areas where fishermen communicate openly about what… Read the rest “Fishermen who communicate make the environment healthier.”
Nature reports on Chinese officials having a redo on one of our past environmental successes, seeking out the source of massive plumes of ozone-destroying CFCs detected over two Chinese… Read the rest “China is going back to fighting the ozone hole.”
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