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 bunnies?)… Read the rest “Japan landed two bouncing rovers on an asteroid.”
Electrical history from PW Lanier and the Minneapolis Institute of Art:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Tesla Coil: high-frequency discharge demonstrator, Welch Scientific Company, 1931”This tabletop Tesla coil was likely made for science classes, producing long, impressive sparks
Observing the equinox. Have music (roughly) but no good words… yet. Song and penitential cover coming soon.
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 us. Beep. Beep. Beep. Unceasing.… Read the rest “Composing the “beep” of the medical monitor.”
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?:
… Read the rest “Looks like real-life astronomers found Spock’s home planet right where it was supposed to be.”Bo Ma at the University
Popular Science shows what it takes to get data sometimes – when the enormous marine reptile you affixed your tracking equipment to carries on migrating right into a major hurricane… Read the rest “Tracking a leatherback turtle through Hurricane Florence”
Not just a kangaroo, and not just a nail-tailed kangaroo. A lunated nail-tailed kangaroo. And a cute one, too. From John Gould’s The Mammals of Australia, 1863. … Read the rest “Science Art: Lunated Nail-Tailed Kangaroo, 1863”
Science News goes deeper into a rock that bears a cross-hatch pattern made 73,000 years ago in a South African cave:
… Read the rest “The world’s oldest drawing was made with a red ocher crayon.”The discovery “helps round out the argument that Homo sapiens [at Blombos
The Guardian unveils the bonnethead as the first confirmed omnivorous shark species:
… Read the rest “First shark species confirmed to eat everything – even veggies.”Scientists at the University of California in Irvine, and Florida International University in Miami,
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This is a view of one of the automatic music-making devices collected by the Centre International de la Mécanique d’Art (CIMA), a Swiss museum of music boxes and … Read the rest “Science Art: Pipes and playing-drum of a “Leierkasten” hand-drawn organ, by Rama”
Science Daily reports (factually) on a UC Berkeley study that reveals how the feedback we get makes us so certain about our wrong beliefs:
… Read the rest “We stick to false beliefs because reactions matter more than evidence.”“If you think you know a lot about something,
Science Daily asks a strange question and the University of Exeter gets a strange answer. At night, when the zookeeper is asleep, what do flamingos *really* do?:
… Read the rest “What do captive flamingos do at night?”“For lots of species
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
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