New hope for coral reefs is sprouting at Florida Aquarium
CNN is among the news outlets covering a hopeful story (as the rain forests burn), that the Florida Aquarium in Tampa has found a way […]
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Phil Plait explains why nuking Mars is a bad idea.
The internet’s “Bad Astronomer” takes to SyFy.com to explain to Elon Musk and everybody else why detonating nuclear bombs on the Martian ice caps would […]
Science Art: (Coleoptera: Lucanidae) Mitophyllus macrocerus, male, by Des Helmore
Click to embiggen vastly A beetle of character. From Wikimedia Commons.
How larvae leap long with no legs
Science News looks at high-speed photo research that reveals how a gall midge larva can leap up to 36 times its body length without any […]
Fishing ecology: the big ones are getting away.
Nature shares the sad fact that “freshwater megafish” – in other words, the really big ones, the 60-pounders out there in the rivers and lakes […]
A smartphone-controlled brain implant.
Science Daily brings news (from Nature Biomedical Engineering) of a new, well, not “killer,” but “really pretty useful” app for people suffering a wide range […]
Science Art: Reconstruction on paper of Tyrannosaurus rex, from Bulletin of the AMNH, 1905 (Linda Hall Library).
Click to embiggen From the Linda Hall Library “Scientist of the Day” entry on Henry Fairfield Osborn: Osborn named and described some of the most […]
Toddlers tend to choose the last item in a set… (file under “parenting” or maybe “preschool politics”)
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 […]
Irish kid wins big for plan to get rid of microplastics using magnets.
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 […]
Science Art: Weather Delay, by Ferdinand Warren
Click to embiggen From the Smithsonian Institutes’ National Air and Space Museum “Eyewitness to Space” collection, paintings from the years when NASA had fine artists […]
Anti-aging electrotherapy zaps earlobes to reset nerves.
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 […]
Tree-coffin burial for a Celtic Swiss lady of prominence.
LiveScience relates how impressed archaeologists are at the classiness of an Iron Age Celtic burial in what’s now Switzerland: After studying the 2,200-year-old burial, archaeologists […]
Disinformation is not false information, and it’s not manufactured. And it doesn’t want you to believe anything.
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 […]
Science Art: Coronal plasma on an ionization tube in operation, by BentaxGermany, 2013
Click to embiggen vastly If it looks like a miniature sun, maybe that’s because on one level it is – it’s creating plasma, which surrounds […]
Last Thursday, a “city-killer” asteroid buzzed by Earth, and we had no clue it was coming.
LiveScience was among the outlets breathlessly describing our close encounter with a giant speeding space-rock that took us all by surprise: Ranging in size from […]