A way NASA plans to get core samples from Mars, the Jovian moon Europa, and beyond – a drill designed to cut bedrock.
From the NASA Technical Report on the device:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Perspective Cutaway View of a Rotary Hammering Sample Acquisition Section (Fig. 5) from NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20150003208”Using
The (not generally scientific, but…) Washington Post shares an elegantly constructed social science experiment that measures a person’s likelihood to bluff their way … Read the rest “A study of BS-ing finds the greatest exaggerators: boys from wealthy backgrounds.”
Science Daily reveals the existence of olfactory receptors – the nerves that give us a sense of smell – located on our tongues:
… Read the rest “Your tongue can smell.”“Our research may help explain how odor
Science Daily reports on an Israeli research team who created a whole heart – not just tissues or pieces – from scratch – or, at least, from cells taken from a patient’s… Read the rest “We’ve 3D-printed a complete heart out of a patient’s own cells.”
An Easter Sunday lunch is served: an early bird!
This is the Chinese feathered dinosaur Sinocalliopteryx gigas, chomping the bird Confuciusornis – something … Read the rest “Science Art: Sinocalliopteryx gigas as a stealth hunter feeding on the primitive bird Confuciusornis, by Cheung Chungtat”
SONG: “Math” (a penitential cover)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for being late for March’s song (which I still… Read the rest “SONG: “Math” (a penitential cover)”
So this is a study from Nature, but I like the way Vox covered it. Yale scientists, using a kind of artificial blood (and machine heart and kidney), have brought the brains of slaughtered pigs… Read the rest “The pigs were dead for 10 hours, and then they weren’t: “The ethics of experimenting on partially reanimated brains is uncharted territory.””
Science News tracks the new outbreak of a disease we’d formally “eliminated”:
… Read the rest “U.S. measles outbreak keeps breaking….”The viral disease has sickened at least 555 people in 20 states, according to numbers
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This is not the famous Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) black hole image that you’ve probably seen by now. It’s a visualization of some of the data that helped… Read the rest “Science Art: Chandra X-ray Observatory close-up of the core of the M87 galaxy, by NASA/CXC/Villanova University/J. Neilsen”
Nature introduces Homo luzonensis, who was hanging out – possibly with other human species – in a cave in the Philippines 50,000 years ago:
… Read the rest “New species of human discovered in the Philippines”The first traces of the new species
Science News has a historic snapshot that it took a long while to take – and from a long, long way away:
… Read the rest “We’ve got a photograph of a supermassive black hole.”A world-spanning network of telescopes called the Event Horizon Telescope zoomed
Science Daily has more on the creature named Peregocetus pacificus, which unfortunately hasn’t been around for a 42.6 million years, but was once a whale with four legs that crossed… Read the rest “Scientists discover a Peruvian four-legged whale – with “otter-like features”.”
A horological device called a “verge escapement” (on the bottom) with a balance wheel (on the top) from a pocketwatch.
An “escapement” is the thing that makes… Read the rest “Science Art: Verge Watch Escapement, from The Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary, Vol. 2, 1820.”
The Guardian has a conservative (in the original sense) take on our biggest ecological challenge, with a science-based campaign to fight climate change by restoring forests, beaches,… Read the rest “Fix the climate… by making things the way they used to be.”
Hakai Magazine looks at the few mighty salmon who survive the rigors of the spawning run year after year. Where most fish die after (or during) their first trip, what turns some tough salmon… Read the rest “A “kelt” is a salmon that survives spawning. Again and again.”
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