Chemistry World introduces us to a particularly talented NASA veteran, George Aldrich – an expert smeller whose olfactory sensitivity ensures that bad smells don’t disrupt… Read the rest “Spacecraft sniffer makes sure NASA’s missions come up roses.”
This is an old, old fellow named Polydesmus. One of the first land animals there ever was.
From the image’s description on Wikimedia Commons:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Introverted Millipede (Magukbaforduló ikerszelvényesek).”Earth had been conquered
Scientific American reveals how a new look at exercise’s effects in the brain might show the way to a one-two punch against Alzheimer’s disease:
… Read the rest “Exercise might be the next Alzheimer’s therapy (or might lead to it).”Exercise has been shown to
Nature repeats a warning you’ve probably heard a few times this week. Global warming is likely to make your beer more expensive, unless we do something:
… Read the rest “Climate change will be raising beer prices. (It’s the barley.)”Many studies have explored
Ars Technica keeps it simple, smart, with a new study that shows why statistics can be the third kind of lie* – sometimes the hard way to think about a problem really is the wrong way, … Read the rest “Statistics are complicated, right? Well, thinking that is why we tend to get misled.”
This is the insignia of the 254th Combat Communications Group, a unit that’s normally part of the Texas Air National Guard, but if federalized, becomes part of the Air Force Space … Read the rest “Science Art: 254th Combat Communications Group emblem”
It’s not quite caveman versus dinosaur, but LiveScience has new research on a Neanderthal child’s bones from Poland’s Ciemna Cave that got digested by a giant bird,… Read the rest “Neanderthal kid got chomped by a giant bird”
Wired shares the latest unexpected benefit from mushroom fundi Paul Stamets, who may have found a weapon to beat back CCD, the syndrome that’s devastating bee populations. He noticed… Read the rest “Mushrooms could save the bees. Maybe.”
Yes, Virginia, there is such a thing as a snipe. Lots of kinds of snipe, in fact.
And snipe hunting was a real thing, too.
This illustration is of a Wilson’s snipe, and it comes from A history… Read the rest “Science Art: Wilson’s Snipe, by W.I. Beecroft, 1912”
And her dad’s a Minnesota Vikings fan, too. Sweden’s The Local reports on young Saga Vanecek, whose family moved from Minneapolis to Sweden to get in touch with their roots…… Read the rest “A hero emerges: 8-year-old girl *named Saga* pulls ancient Viking sword from Swedish lake.”
NSF Science 360 News gazes at a new, foamy polymer paint that stays so cool in the sunlight, it could be used to replace air conditioning:
… Read the rest “Cool paint. Literally.”An alternative to these energy-intensive cooling
Science News uses LIDAR mapping to reveal an ancient Maya empire that wasn’t so much slash-and-burn and smash-and-grab as they were smart farmers and wide-ranging communicators… Read the rest “Lasers reveal ancient Maya as well-connected, environmentally conscious.”
The Johns Hopkins Hub shares the news that their medical school researchers are advocating, in the October issue of Neuropharmacology, that psilocybin mushrooms be taken out of the same… Read the rest “Johns Hopkins researchers recommend taking magic mushrooms off Schedule I.”
This might be the greatest contribution gardening ever made to space travel.
In the middle of World War II, engineers were trying to figure out how to make pressurized suits… Read the rest “Science Art: The Goodrich XH-5 Tomato-Worm Suit”
The Guardian pulls back the veil – using fossilized cholesterol, of all things – on what could be the world’s oldest animal – an oval-shaped creature that lived… Read the rest “The oldest animal.”
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