Science News unearths the 5,000-year-old remains of a Scandinavian woman who seems to have been the oldest known victim of the Black Death:
… Read the rest “She might’ve been Plague Victim Zero.”DNA extracted from the woman’s teeth comes from
Digital Trends looks at how wearable devices could revolutionize farming and keep chickens healthier:
… Read the rest “Chickens with Fitbits. Future of farming.”Sitting neatly between these two size extremes is a new project coming out of the
In Forbes, Johns Hopkins Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Biostatistics Steven Salzberg has put forward a modest mathematical proposal to solve some of our… Read the rest “There’s an easy fix for gerrymandering, if Congress can count two decimal places.”
Buzzfeed reports on an unexpected personality clash with an AI on the International Space Station – an incident that could affect how similar synthetic companions are used on missions… Read the rest “It’s not quite “Please open the podbay doors, HAL,” but almost….”
From the Wikimedia Commons description:
… Read the rest “Science Art: A Magnetic Wormhole by J. Prat-Camps, C. Navau & A. Sanchez, 2015.”(a) The field of a magnetic source (right) is appearing as an isolated magnetic monopole when passing through the magnetostatic
The American Council on Science and Health thinks disagreements over facts – even ones based on scientific evidence – may well naturally lead to the kind of divisive polarization… Read the rest “Is polarization inevitable? Can we *not* agree to disagree?”
PhysOrg explains that they were really Elasmotheriums – 3.5-ton primordial rhinos known as “Siberian unicorns” – but they really did survive into the era of… Read the rest “We really did walk with unicorns.”
“Atom” used to be the indivisible unit of matter, the thing smaller than which it was impossible to go. Now we know there are things inside atoms – neutrons, protons, … Read the rest “Science Art: Atom Nucleon”
SONG: “Quantum Biology”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Scientific American, Vol. 27, Dec. 2018, “’Schrödinger’s Bacterium’ Could Be a Quantum Biology Milestone”… Read the rest “SONG: Quantum Biology”
I don’t think Lula Mae is ever coming home. (And if you don’t get the reference, go now and watch the movie!)
They just don’t cowboy like they used to.
Science News is a leetle late to the game, but that’s the new reality. Researchers have completed some early studies on how fake news gets spread by bots – by acting super fast,… Read the rest “Bots and fake news: how it works”
Answering the unspoken question, yes, we are a little feverish here in the guild headquarters. Science News answers the explicit question, however. By having very limber wombat intestines… Read the rest “In observance of Thanksgiving week: How do wombats poop cubes?”
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Two fish from one of the first collections of X-ray photographs, published in Versuche über Photographie mittelst der Röntgen’schen Strahlen, 1896.
From the “Early… Read the rest “Science Art: Zanclus cornatus and Acanthurus nigra, by Josef Maria Eder and Eduard Valenta.”
Popular Science can reveal the disturbing solution to a minor military mystery with the story of how space weather made a bunch of military mines suddenly explode:
… Read the rest “Solar flares set off underwater mines in the Vietnam war – and we just figured it out.”[I]magine the U.S. military’s
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