Science News gives us the latest on New Horizon’s flyby of Ultima Thule, giving us our closest look at the furthest object we’ve ever visited:
… Read the rest “A First Look at Ultima Thule”The last best view of Ultima Thule
Science Daily reveals an environmentally friendly GMO – a new variety of pothos ivy that University of Washington researchers designed to remove chloroform and benzene from the… Read the rest “Genetically-altered houseplants clear indoor air.”
NASA serves the ham in a tray.
“Little Joe” was a test rocket named for a kind of craps roll – because getting the rocket together was as unlikely as having… Read the rest “Science Art: Drawing of proposed Pig Capsule, Little Joe first shot”
Science Daily makes the leather-winged terrors of the Jurassic seem downright cuddly with research that indicates pterosaurs might, in fact, have been soft and cuddly:
… Read the rest “Fuzzy little pterosaur.”Researchers led
Something appropriate for the season and, maybe, for Comet Wirtanen… from nemfrog:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Tiny planets….”Tiny planets, visitors from other worlds, become white-hot and are seen as
SONG: “Forgotten”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Nature, 13 Dec. 2018, “‘Transmissible’ Alzheimer’s theory gains traction “, as used in the post “Alzheimer’s can… Read the rest “SONG: Forgotten”
SONG: “Black Star” (penitential cover)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for being late for a song a month or two ago. It’s… Read the rest “SONG: Black Star (a penitential cover)”
Nature reports on the New Horizon space probe’s date for New Years – with Ultima Thule (formally, 2014 MU69), the most distant object visited by one of our spacecraft:
… Read the rest “New Years with Ultima Thule – that’s far out.”MU69
MIT researchers have devised a technique to create a solid, 3D structure and then reduce it to one-thousandth its original volume:
… Read the rest “MIT shrinks objects to the nano-scale.”“It’s a way of putting nearly any kind of material into
Evolution took a winding path with the nautilus. They curled, over generations, into a spiral.
In order, we’re looking at: Orthoceras, Cyrtoceras, Gyroceras… Read the rest “Science Art: Transition of straight Nautiloidea into typical Nautilus, 1972”
Nature discusses how the proteins that cause havoc in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients can be transmitted from person to person:
… Read the rest “Alzheimer’s can be transmitted person-to-person. (Surgically, that is.)”They stress that their research does not suggest
NPR reports on a year-long, city-wide study that proved one of those obvious things that for some reason we never act on: Teenagers do a heck of a lot better if you just let them stay up late and… Read the rest “Seattle schools prove later waking makes students more productive.”
Science Alert lets us know that oceanographers have determined that the event that killed 70 percent of all land species and 96 percent of all marine species (not individuals – but… Read the rest “We now know what killed everything in Earth’s worst mass-extinction event.”
Earth Archives talks about a recent fossil discovery that changes the way we picture marine life in the age of dinosaurs:
… Read the rest “Color-changing, warm-blooded ichthyosaurs.”An incredible new specimen of the Early Jurassic genus Stenopterygius
This is how Allied intelligence pictured German V2 rockets being used during World War II. A decade and a half later, this was how we put things (and, eventually, people)… Read the rest “Science Art: Storage and Launching of A.4. Rocket Projectile, 1940s.”
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