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.”
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.”
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).”
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”
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”.
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”
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).”
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:
… Read the rest “If you played with Pokemon as a kid, your adult brain is noticeably different: You’ve created a Pokemon brain region.”…Researchers
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.”
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”
Science News has a novel way to map out potential climate change – by tracking where new viruses are showing up in the ocean:
… Read the rest “There are a lot of viruses in the Arctic ice – and they can show us where carbon is sinking.”Water samples taken during a three-year expedition around
Nature shares details on NASA’s new International Space Station project – a device that can see CO2 in ways that most satellites can’t:
… Read the rest “Eye in the sky will see how carbon really moves (which should make climate science better).”The US$110-million Orbiting
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
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