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Sharks are eating *songbirds*.

24 May 2019 grant 0

Science magazine demonstrates that sharks can and will eat literally anything, up to and including songbirds that live miles inland … but migrate over the Gulf of Mexico:

To find

… Read the rest “Sharks are eating *songbirds*.”

A computer beat doctors at diagnosing lung cancer.

21 May 2019 grant 0

The New York Times pits man against machine in a CT-scan interpretation challenge – and the machine won. An AI got fewer false positives and fewer false negatives than a team of six … Read the rest “A computer beat doctors at diagnosing lung cancer.”

Scientific Illustration of NASA's Skylab

Science Art: Skylab Artist Concept, 1972

19 May 2019 grant 0

Scientific Illustration of NASA's Skylab Click to embiggen

A house in space, with a big carport. Spaceport. You get the idea.

From NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center:

This illustration Skylab shows the Apollo capsule,

… Read the rest “Science Art: Skylab Artist Concept, 1972”

Weird water might exist across the universe – as a supersolid.

16 May 2019 grant 0

Wired reveals a new way to look at the stuff life relies on – and gives a reason why it could be a lot more common in outer space than we’ve thought. Water, under the right circumstances,… Read the rest “Weird water might exist across the universe – as a supersolid.”

Unearthing a secret chamber beneath Nero’s palace.

15 May 2019 grant 0

LiveScience reports on archaeologists excavating Emperor Nero’s “golden house” – his sprawling, palatial complex underneath hills near the Colosseum –… Read the rest “Unearthing a secret chamber beneath Nero’s palace.”

Geneticists discover what makes grocery-store tomatoes inferior (so now they can fix it).

15 May 2019 grant 0

Discover takes us into the geneticists’ kitchen, where they’ve isolated the gene that makes fresh tomatoes taste good – that’s missing from 93% of store-bought… Read the rest “Geneticists discover what makes grocery-store tomatoes inferior (so now they can fix it).”

Bat-winged dinosaur bemuses paleontologists

13 May 2019 grant 0

We thought we were pretty clear on how dinosaurs gradually evolved into birds, developing longer fingers, stronger feathers, and all the rest of that. Now, as Smithsonian Magazine reports,… Read the rest “Bat-winged dinosaur bemuses paleontologists”

Scientific illustration of desmids (algae)

Science Art: Plate XIV (Cosmarium species from Desmids of the United States….

12 May 2019 grant 0

Scientific illustration of desmids (algae)

Single-celled algae, magnified 500 times.

They float in ponds and stream banks. I found them in the Biodiversity Heritage Library, in the Rev. Francis Wolle’s 1884 book Desmids … Read the rest “Science Art: Plate XIV (Cosmarium species from Desmids of the United States….”

SONG: Facing North

12 May 2019 grant 0

SONG: “Facing North”.

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Science News, 18 Mar 2019, “People can sense Earth’s magnetic field, brain waves suggest,” as used in the post … Read the rest “SONG: Facing North”

Virgin Galactic is heading to New Mexico (at last).

10 May 2019 grant 0

The Las Cruces Sun News reports that, after years of planning, Richard Branson has finally announced that his space-tourism company is moving all operations from California to southern… Read the rest “Virgin Galactic is heading to New Mexico (at last).”

If you played with Pokemon as a kid, your adult brain is noticeably different: You’ve created a Pokemon brain region.

8 May 2019 grant 0

The Verge reports on a study (from Nature Human Behavior) that demonstrates that collecting all those pocket-monsters creates lasting physical changes in your brain:

…Researchers

… Read the rest “If you played with Pokemon as a kid, your adult brain is noticeably different: You’ve created a Pokemon brain region.”

Melting permafrost is doubling greenhouse warming from the tundra.

6 May 2019 grant 0

Nature reports on a vicious cycle that’s making things uncomfortable in the Arctic – a release of gases from melting permafrost that’s literally collapsing, freeing… Read the rest “Melting permafrost is doubling greenhouse warming from the tundra.”

Scientific illustration of Rufus Porter's airship, dubbed the "aeroport"

Science Art: Rufus Porter’s “Travelling Balloon,” later renamed the “aeroport,” from Mechanics magazine, Nov. 8, 1834

6 May 2019 grant 0

Scientific illustration of Rufus Porter's airship, dubbed the "aeroport"

This airship is a kind of ancestor of the blimp or dirigible, designed by 19th-century American artist and inventor Rufus Porter, who’s perhaps best remembered today not for his … Read the rest “Science Art: Rufus Porter’s “Travelling Balloon,” later renamed the “aeroport,” from Mechanics magazine, Nov. 8, 1834”

There are a lot of viruses in the Arctic ice – and they can show us where carbon is sinking.

1 May 2019 grant 0

Science News has a novel way to map out potential climate change – by tracking where new viruses are showing up in the ocean:

Water samples taken during a three-year expedition around

… Read the rest “There are a lot of viruses in the Arctic ice – and they can show us where carbon is sinking.”

Eye in the sky will see how carbon really moves (which should make climate science better).

30 April 2019 grant 0

Nature shares details on NASA’s new International Space Station project – a device that can see CO2 in ways that most satellites can’t:

The US$110-million Orbiting

… Read the rest “Eye in the sky will see how carbon really moves (which should make climate science better).”

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