From The Colliery Manager’s Handbook … Fourth edition, revised and enlarged, an 1898 book in the British Library’s public domain collection… Read the rest “Science Art: Lancashire Boiler with Galloway Tubes, 1898”
Science Daily follows astronomers who have found a planet 14 light-years away that’s in just the right spot – the “Goldilocks zone” around its star – to… Read the rest “Finding life on Wolf 1061”
Science Daily reveals a new molecular pathway the brain uses to regulate anxiety and depression – a discovery that opens the door for a new class of antidepressants:
… Read the rest “New way for antidepressants to work.”The research,
New Scientist covers a shark who managed to make babies despite being separated from any males:
… Read the rest “Life… finds a way. With a self-impregnating leopard shark.”Leonie the zebra shark (Stegostoma fasciatum) met her male partner at an aquarium in Townsville,
Science News didn’t get so poetic with their headline, but it amounts to the same thing. A team of astronomers has found a blaze of a specific wavelength of green light that shows the… Read the rest “The first galaxies burned with green fire.”
Nature shows how one of the simplest toys out there – a loop of string with a spinning bit of paper in the middle – can be used as a life-saving diagnostic device:
… Read the rest “This homemade toy saves lives.”Growing up in India,
Science Daily reveals a simpler, cheaper way to get excess carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere – by converting it to carbon crystals:
… Read the rest “Newer, easier way to capture carbon from the atmosphere”Scientists at the Department of Energy’s
Behold, the seat of consciousness and feeling.
Maybe not the source, but the seat.
From Charles Dessalines D’Orbigny’s Universal Dictionary of Natural… Read the rest “Science Art: Mammiferes, Pl. 3, from Dictionnaire universel d’histoire naturelle, 1849”
Science magazine reports on a new mission for German scientists, who are working to identify the human remains stored for study by Nazi euthanasia centers:
… Read the rest “Scientists start identifying the brains taken by Nazi researchers.”During World War II, as part of
Nature reports on the latest surprise to come out of the DeepMind project, who just revealed one of their programs as the anonymous master who’s been defeating all comers in online… Read the rest “Mysterious new go champion revealed to be an AI.”
Science Daily brings us one step closer to a sci-fi tomorrow with researchers publishing open-source directions on making a tractor beam at home:
… Read the rest “You can now 3D-print a sonic tractor beam.”Last year Asier Marzo, then a doctoral
Big valley in the Antarctic ice. A bonus image for the New Year, from NASA’s Image Gallery, photographed a couple weeks before Thanksgiving 2016:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Rift in Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf, by NASA/John Sonntag”Ice shelves are
This photo is part of NASA’s IceBridge mission, an airborne survey of polar ice, which completed an eighth consecutive Antarctic deployment on Nov. 18 of this year.… Read the rest “Science Art: Mt. Balfour, Antarctica, by NASA/Joe MacGregor”
Nature delves into the surprising intricacies of bat language:
… Read the rest “Bats have more to say than you think.”Bats are noisy creatures, especially in their crowded caves, where they make calls to their neighbours. “If you go into a
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