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Laugh, quantum computer, laugh… in IBM’s gum tree.

16 May 2022 grant 0

Popular Science discusses what could be IBM’s quantum breakthrough – a quantum processor named “Kookaburra” that’s set to start computing in 2025: Last year, IBM […]

Scientific illustration of a ""Sinuous neck flask employed by M. Pasteur in his experiments against spontaneous generation"; in other words, antique laboratory glassware.

Science Art: “Ballon à col sinueux employé par M. Pasteur dans ses expériences contre la génération spontanée”, 1873.

16 May 2022 grant 0

This is some laboratory glassware used in Pasteur’s experiments, as illustrated in Les merveilles de l’industrie, an 1873 science book that has a marvelous gallery […]

Bats mimic buzzing hornets to scare predators away.

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Science magazine reveals the first known case of a mammal mimicking insect noises, in a study that found greater mouse-eared bats imitate stinging insect buzzes […]

Pop-song paradox: What it takes to be a one-hit wonder is the opposite of what it takes to have a long career.

11 May 2022 grant 0

Science News examines the science of the Top 40, with a survey of the charts that found what goes into that first, breakthrough hit is […]

Scientific illustration of transistors, as a piece of modern art from a 1972 Radio Shack instructional book.

Science Art: Cover, Introduction to Transistors & Transistor Projects, 1972.

8 May 2022 grant 0

This is… well, let me just quote the preface: This book is intended to show the electronics experimenter how the transistor was developed, how it […]

Solar plane can do the job of a satellite without going into space.

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CNN is covering the Skydweller, a plane powered by more than 17,000 solar panels, enabling it to stay aloft for month, doing the same work […]

Got allergic asthma? Congratulations – you’ve also got some COVID-19 protection.

5 May 2022 grant 0

Science News looks at interleukin-13, an immune-system protein linked with allergies that make it hard to breathe – and make it hard for the SARS-CoV-2 […]

Scientific Illustration of beetles by Edw. A. Smith, whoever he was. The beetles are colorful, reddish orange, and have long antennae.

Science Art: Lycidae, Plate XVIII, Edw. A. Smith, 1879

1 May 2022 grant 0

These are beetles, mostly from southern Asia except the last one, Dexoris, which is from Sierra Leone. These specific beetles became British (perhaps posthumously) and […]

Smallpox vaccine got a boost … from skin bacteria.

30 April 2022 grant 0

The-Scientist explores a strange interaction that helped eliminate smallpox without us even noticing. The vaccine that helped eliminate this killer got an extra boost from […]

Camera lens based on a trilobite’s eye keeps objects in focus near and far.

29 April 2022 grant 0

Science News looks at the world through the eyes of Dalmanitina socialis, a creature extinct for 400 million years who could focus on objects as […]

scientific illustration of a blast engine, a marvelous machine of the Victorian era.

Science Art: Blast Engine, 1870s.

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This was one of the attractions in the Machinery Hall of the Great Centennial Exhibition of 1876, a blast engine made by the I.P. Morris […]

Brain scans show even a mild covid case can shrink your brain – as many of us are finding out.

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National Geographic takes a broad look at neurological studies done at labs around the world that show that even the “mild flu” version of COVID-19 […]

Inca sacrifices were given ayahuasca in their final hours.

19 April 2022 grant 0

IFL Science (among other outlets) is reporting on studies published in Nature and the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports that looked at the mummified remains […]

Scientific illustration of an amphibious aircraft from the 1800s.

Science Art: Pénaud’s first sketch of an amphibian aeroplane, 1873

17 April 2022 grant 0

CW: Ends in despair. French aviation pioneer Alphonse Pénaud designed this, with engineer Paul Gauchot, as an aeroplane that could land on water or on […]

Pluto might have an underground ocean, if those icy volcanoes are any indication.

17 April 2022 grant 0

Science magazine reports on new conclusions from the New Horizon spacecraft’s 2015 observations of ice volcanoes on Pluto, and what they could mean for the […]

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