Science Art: 254th Combat Communications Group emblem
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 […]
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Neanderthal kid got chomped by a giant bird
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 […]
Mushrooms could save the bees. Maybe.
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 […]
Science Art: Wilson’s Snipe, by W.I. Beecroft, 1912
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. […]
A hero emerges: 8-year-old girl *named Saga* pulls ancient Viking sword from Swedish lake.
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 […]
Cool paint. Literally.
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 […]
Lasers reveal ancient Maya as well-connected, environmentally conscious.
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 […]
Johns Hopkins researchers recommend taking magic mushrooms off Schedule I.
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 […]
Science Art: The Goodrich XH-5 Tomato-Worm Suit
Click to embiggen This might be the greatest contribution gardening ever made to space travel. In the middle of World War II, engineers were trying […]
The oldest animal.
The Guardian pulls back the veil – using fossilized cholesterol, of all things – on what could be the world’s oldest animal – an oval-shaped […]
Japan landed two bouncing rovers on an asteroid.
Space.com makes an announcement that sounds… more fun than usual. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency landed two rovers that hop (like fleas? like springtails? like […]
Science Art: Tesla Coil: high-frequency discharge demonstrator, Welch Scientific Company, 1931
Click to embiggen Electrical history from PW Lanier and the Minneapolis Institute of Art: This tabletop Tesla coil was likely made for science classes, producing […]
No song today.
Observing the equinox. Have music (roughly) but no good words… yet. Song and penitential cover coming soon.
Composing the “beep” of the medical monitor.
It’s an iconic, stress-inducing sound – think about medical dramas or crime thrillers set in hospitals. And now, we bring the beep home, some of […]
Looks like real-life astronomers found Spock’s home planet right where it was supposed to be.
Nature asks the question raised by University of Florida astronomers: how did Roddenberry know there’d be a hot, heavy, but Earth-like planet orbiting 40 Eridani?: […]