Science News traces the history of highs to a Chinese site where 2,500-year-old tombside remains indicate that smoldering cannabis was stacked in wooden bowls for ritual inhalation –… Read the rest “Ancient stoners used wooden bowls. (Not the kind on pipes, either.)”
Ars Technica tries to discover what it is about bats that could help us humans live longer, healthier lives:
… Read the rest “Why do bats live so long? And how can we live longer too?”For the most part, as the size of the mammal goes up, its metabolism slows down and
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An image of the summer sky (in the Northern Hemisphere) by William Peck, F.R.A.S., from his book, The constellations and how to find them; 13 maps, showing the position … Read the rest “Science Art: Map IX: The Constellations of June and July by William Peck.”
Science News has the results of a new study that shows healthy “normal” humans have a “large patches” of mutated cells in lots of different kinds of healthy tissues… Read the rest “We’re all mutants. Or largely mutant.”
Nature has a quite long piece (and quite sensational headline) on the way Earth’s “evil twin,” Venus, is inspiring a new generation of interplanetary explorers to … Read the rest “Venus is luring Earth explorers again.”
And, The Guardian adds, we also inhale about that much plastic into our lungs as well. The study, published in Environmental Science and Technology, is the first hard look at how much microplastic… Read the rest “Human beings swallow 50,000 microparticles of plastic per year. More, if you like bottled water.”
Why? Well, as Nature explains, we’ve just found out that the same gene combination that gives HIV resistance to those kids He Jianku worked on also makes them 21% likelier to die before… Read the rest “The CRISPR-edited babies might have shortened lifespans.”
Roy Gjerston was an artist who designed stamps for the US Postal Service and spaceship concept art for General Dynamics. So this stamp, commemorating the Mariner 10 probe… Read the rest “Science Art: Mariner 10 issue of 1975, by Roy Gjerston”
PhysOrg has a report on a genetically modified fungus that is capable, if released into the wild, of using spider venom to eliminate the mosquitoes that carry one of the nastiest diseases… Read the rest “A genetically weaponized fungus is getting used against malaria.”
Science Daily has word from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers, who instruct us to look for life on Mars by searching out rock formations that look like fettuccine … Read the rest “The Search for Martian Fettuccine”
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This is an image of an image of the heart – or at least an image of heart imaging. An echocardiogram done upward or downward from between the ribs beside the sternum.… Read the rest “Science Art: Heart normal parasternal long axis echocardiography view by Patrick J. Lynch”
SONG: “Bodiless”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Vox, 17 April 2019, “Scientists: We kept pig brains alive 10 hours after death. Bioethicists: ‘Holy shit.’… Read the rest “SONG: Bodiless”
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:
… Read the rest “Sharks are eating *songbirds*.”To find
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.”
A house in space, with a big carport. Spaceport. You get the idea.
From NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Skylab Artist Concept, 1972”This illustration Skylab shows the Apollo capsule,
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