An inoculation against fake news: a video game in which you create propaganda.
The University of Cambridge has studied 15,000 people and determined that playing a quick browser game is effective in getting folks to resist the seductive […]
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Science Art: Water, by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1566
Click to embiggen I’m not sure if this really is a scientific illustration, but I think, given the time, it counts as natural history. This […]
Yep, that whale was plenty weird. Half narwhal, half beluga.
Science News shares the genetic solution to a puzzle that’s had marine biologists (and Greenland whale hunters) puzzled since the 1980s. Namely, what the heck […]
Robot fish has battery blood.
Nature powers up with a mechanical fish that runs off a circulating liquid power source: The roughly 40-centimetre soft robot doesn’t have solid batteries — […]
Boaty McBoatface’s Big Breakthrough
The Telegraph reports on the internet’s favorite ocean-going vessel, the submersible Boaty McBoatface, and the plucky little robot sub has just been doing some potentially […]
Bigger houses aren’t making people happier.
They’re just taking up more space. That’s the conclusion, published in The Atlantic, of researchers looking at how satisfied people are with their homes – […]
Science Art: favorite image Petrus Plancius Instructing Students in the Science of Navigation, early 17th century
Click to embiggen The Age of Exploration included at least a little bit of schoolwork. Here are navigation students learning the ways of current and […]
How the zebra got its stripes. (An 85-year-old researcher’s first published study!)
Popular Science thinks they know – and the answer is literally cool: Now the 85-year-old amateur scientist [Allison Cobb] has published her first scientific study […]
Ancient stoners used wooden bowls. (Not the kind on pipes, either.)
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 […]
Why do bats live so long? And how can we live longer too?
Ars Technica tries to discover what it is about bats that could help us humans live longer, healthier lives: For the most part, as the […]
Science Art: Map IX: The Constellations of June and July by William Peck.
Click to embiggen 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 […]
We’re all mutants. Or largely mutant.
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 […]
Venus is luring Earth explorers again.
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 […]
Human beings swallow 50,000 microparticles of plastic per year. More, if you like bottled water.
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 […]