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Science Art: Lancashire Boiler with Galloway Tubes, 1898

22 January 2017 grant 0

Lancashire Boiler with Galloway Tubes, from "The Colliery Manager's Handbook ... Fourth edition, revised and enlarged"Click to embiggen slightly

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”

Finding life on Wolf 1061

22 January 2017 grant 0

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”

New way for antidepressants to work.

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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:

The research,

… Read the rest “New way for antidepressants to work.”

Life… finds a way. With a self-impregnating leopard shark.

17 January 2017 grant 0

New Scientist covers a shark who managed to make babies despite being separated from any males:

Leonie the zebra shark (Stegostoma fasciatum) met her male partner at an aquarium in Townsville,

… Read the rest “Life… finds a way. With a self-impregnating leopard shark.”

Science Art: Weedy Seadragon by Cristina Pérez Boix

15 January 2017 grant 0

Phyllopterix taeniolatus, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Weedy_Seadragon_-_Cristina_P%C3%A9rez_Boix.jpgClick to embiggen vastly

Not your average seahorse.

They’re pretty cool.

And totally real! Not made up or anything!

The first galaxies burned with green fire.

15 January 2017 grant 0

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.”

This homemade toy saves lives.

11 January 2017 grant 0

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:

Growing up in India,

… Read the rest “This homemade toy saves lives.”

Newer, easier way to capture carbon from the atmosphere

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Science Daily reveals a simpler, cheaper way to get excess carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere – by converting it to carbon crystals:

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s

… Read the rest “Newer, easier way to capture carbon from the atmosphere”

Science Art: Mammiferes, Pl. 3, from Dictionnaire universel d’histoire naturelle, 1849

8 January 2017 grant 0

from : http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19537949#page/47/mode/1up
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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”

Scientists start identifying the brains taken by Nazi researchers.

6 January 2017 grant 0

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:

During World War II, as part of

… Read the rest “Scientists start identifying the brains taken by Nazi researchers.”

Mysterious new go champion revealed to be an AI.

5 January 2017 grant 0

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.”

You can now 3D-print a sonic tractor beam.

3 January 2017 grant 0

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:

Last year Asier Marzo, then a doctoral

… Read the rest “You can now 3D-print a sonic tractor beam.”

Science Art: Rift in Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf, by NASA/John Sonntag

2 January 2017 grant 0

Rift in Antarctica's Larsen C Ice Shelf,  Credit: NASA/John SonntagClick to embiggen

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:

Ice shelves are

… Read the rest “Science Art: Rift in Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf, by NASA/John Sonntag”

Science Art: Mt. Balfour, Antarctica, by NASA/Joe MacGregor

2 January 2017 grant 0

NASA/Joe MacGregorClick to embiggen

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”

Bats have more to say than you think.

30 December 2016 grant 0

Nature delves into the surprising intricacies of bat language:

Bats are noisy creatures, especially in their crowded caves, where they make calls to their neighbours. “If you go into a

… Read the rest “Bats have more to say than you think.”

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  • Jonathan Coulton, Contributing Troubadour for Popular Science.
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  • Thomas Dolby, godfather of scientific pop.
  • Squeaky, fact-based rock about fusion containment & rocket science.
  • Cosmos II, a.k.a. Boston University astronomer Alan Marscher.
  • Dr. Fiorella Terenzi, astrophysicist who makes music from cosmic radio sources.
  • Dr. Jim Webb, astronomy professor and acoustic guitarist.
  • Artichoke, the band behind 26 Scientists, Vols. I and II.
  • They Might Be Giants, unrelenting proponents of scientific popular song.
  • Symphonies of Science, the people who make Carl Sagan and others sing.
  • Giant Squid, doom metal about the sublime horrors of marine biology.
  • Gethan Dick,6 scientists, 6 musicians, 1 great album
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