Birds of prey are lighting wildfires. On purpose.
Not that we didn’t have enough to worry about, but Science Alert has, uh, alerted us to the science showing that three species of Australian […]
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Voter ID laws: the real science.
Wired has a longer look at researchers who’ve boldly taken on the thankless task of taking on the whole “voter ID” controversy with real data […]
Science Art: Momma Oryctrodromeus stays in the burrow with her babies…., by Julio Lacerda
Click to embiggen I found this on the Scientific Illustration tumblr, and though it seems to have been used in an Earth Archives article with […]
Ancient Americans came all at once – or so a baby’s DNA suggests.
Science looks at the mystery of when the first Americans arrived over the land bridge of Beringia, and have found some interesting clues in an […]
Climate change is stealing nutrients from food.
Science News has a series of studies that show rising CO2 levels and other climate disturbances are taking minerals and vitamins out of our vegetable […]
Science Art: Callorynchus antarctica, 1858.
An image that introduces Fishes and fishing : artificial breeding of fish, anatomy of their senses, their loves, passions, and intellects. With illustrative facts by […]
Stone tools show when we left Africa
Live Science reveals the simple treasures of Wadi Dabsa, where stone hand-axes, scrapers, spear-points and hammers are among a trove of relics that might show […]
Electrical brain stimulation can boost your memory. For a day.
Science News has more on how a zap of electric current, placed just so, can increase your ability to make and maintain new memories: The […]
A sticky bioprinting breakthrough.
Science Daily has more on the Osaka University researchers who have found a new way to stick together the ever-more complicated cells for 3D printing: […]
Science Art: Apollo 8 Earthrise, Christmas Eve 1968
Click to embiggen “Oh, my God! Look at that picture over there! Here’s the earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty!” –Commander Frank Borman, Apollo […]
Music from melting glaciers.
Earther has a nice look at a University of Virginia sound artist who’s turning shrinking glaciers into his musical instrument: “We’re trying to create art, […]
We’re treating cervical cancer with cyborg sperm.
New Scientist spells out how we’re able to use sperm cells to carry chemotherapy drugs directly to tumors: Haifeng Xu at the Leibniz Institute for […]
Science Art: Field Rheostats, 1907
Click to embiggen Not “field” as in “field recording,” but “field” as in “magnetic field.” These are from a chapter on direct-current dynamos in E. […]
Electric-eel power plants could fuel artificial organs
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The Age of Giant Penguins. After the Age of Dinosaurs, before the Age of Giant Mammals.
So, yes, I’ve already written an OK song about giant penguins before, but this is a new and different thing. NPR is reporting on a […]