Science Direct has a social media study from psychologists at Toronto’s York University and Adelaide’s Flinders University, who’ve found that women feel worse about… Read the rest “Posting selfies damages your self-image.”
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This image is from the Public Domain Review’s essay, “The Poetry of Victorian Science,” which is as much up this site’s alley as anything on … Read the rest “Science Art: Detail from the bookplate of the English bibliographer, paleontologist and geologist Charles Davies Sherborn, 1890”
Science News says the little tubes help immune cells travel from bone marrow to injured parts of the brain membrane:
… Read the rest “Just discovered: Tiny tunnels that connect your brain to your skull.”In mice, inflammatory immune cells use these previously hidden channels
Nature says the earthquake prophet is IN. Or in the machine at least. For the first time, a machine-learning system beat human experts at figuring out where tremors would hit following a … Read the rest “AI successfully predicts earthquake aftershocks.”
Not the usual science-mag fare, but yesterday USA Today had a story that’s sort of about business and sort of about unintended consequences of cutting-edge technology in the kitchen…… Read the rest “Meat by law, not by lab.”
From the Astronomy Picture of the Day description:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Stripping ESO 137-001, a Hubble/Chandra composite image of a spiral galaxy.”This image combines NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations with data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory. As
SONG: “Taste the Wind”.
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SOURCE: Nature, 13 Aug 2018, “Spacecraft sets off to make humanity’s closest approach to the Sun”, as used in the post… Read the rest “SONG: Taste the Wind”
Researchers from the UK’s University of Sheffield and Manchester Metropolitan University have taken a closer look at what’s really going on with all those hugely popular,… Read the rest “Chilling out: Starting to study the physiology of ASMR”
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SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for being late for last month’s… Read the rest “SONG: Circuits in the Sand (penitential cover)”
Smithsonian seems to be blaming the (ahem) efficiency of “least-effort strategies” on the fall of Homo erectus, modern humans’ recent ancestor:
… Read the rest “Was Homo erectus too lazy to survive? Really?”In a statement, lead
Eight years of observations, from 1908 to 1915, went into this chart. We’re looking at deviations from geographic points, and the percentage of geostrophic wind… Read the rest “Science Art: Geostrophic and Surface-Winds at Southport, 1931”
Nature reports on the Parker Solar Probe, a ship with a mission to closer than we’ve ever been to the Sun, even dipping into the solar atmosphere:
… Read the rest “Tasting the solar wind.”The spacecraft lifted off from Cape
Yes, it’s still controversial, but it looks like (according to The Guardian‘s reporting) that successfully lowering your salt intake might – oops – increase… Read the rest “Cut out cutting out the salt”
Popular Science looks at Mary Jane, gut problems and the mechanism behind cannabis helping make IBS better:
… Read the rest “We’ve figured out why marijuana helps inflammation.”A new study from University of Massachusetts and University of Bath researchers
This is a hand axe made by prehistoric humans – but the image is a historical relic in its own right. It represents the first time a modern human (in this case, John Frere) was able to prove… Read the rest “Science Art: Hoxne Hand Axe, by Thomas Underwood and John Frere”
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