Popular Science brings a 1970s science-fiction dream one step closer to reality with news that Uber Freight is ready to put robot truckers on the highway:
… Read the rest “10-4, bot buddy. Robot truckers join the convoy….”Uber, the technology company (which,
The Guardian reports on a rational, logical approach to making the big bucks… by evaluating trades (and making hiring and firing decisions) using a custom-built computer rather… Read the rest “World’s largest hedge fund set to replace management with supercomputer.”
BBC unveils how exactly our brains are able to turn the garbled sounds of a crowded room into understandable speech:
… Read the rest ““The Cocktail Party Effect” noise filter is revealed at last.”A team measured people’s brain activity as the words of a previously
Heard this odd bit of medical science on Marketplace this morning. A new study of 1.5 million patients found that those treated by doctors who were women have a 5-percent better chance of … Read the rest “Female doctors’ patients live longer.”
My old dog was a basset. And now there’s a bulldog in my house. I’m not sure how dogs happen, but they do.
This is what these breeds (pretty “over-bred” breeds) look… Read the rest “Science Art: Plate 20. – Skeletons of the cross between the English bulldog and bassethound showing contrast in leg length…, 1941”
Science Daily goes for a schvitz and a think with the University of Finland, where researchers have found that frequent sauna visits protect men against dementia:
… Read the rest “Sauna for your mental health.”The effects of sauna bathing
Science reports on a reindeer study that’s been running a lot longer than this Christmas season. Researchers in the Arctic have found that reindeer have lost an average of 12% of their… Read the rest “Reindeer have been shrinking since 1994.”
Science Daily looks at the vacation habits of Neanderthals on Jersey:
… Read the rest “Jersey shore (the one in the English Channel) was a prehistoric tourist attraction for *millennia*.”As part of a re-examination of La Cotte de St Brelade and its surrounding landscape, archaeologists from Southampton,
BBC has, courtesy of the Fall Meeting of American Geophysical Union (AGU), a quarter-century of satellite images of Antarctica showing how the ice is shrinking, and where the melted water… Read the rest “Antarctic ice-loss: a 25-year-long look from space.”
Astronaut and astronaut nurse, getting ready to stick another metaphorical toe into the metaphorical water of the eternal icy void of space, just before the Mercury-Atlas… Read the rest “Science Art: Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. confers with astronaut nurse Dolores B. O’Hara, 1962”
Not that anything’s trying to get out. No, Live Science wouldn’t want us to panic needlessly over a gigantic crevice yawning wide across shrinking ice-fields of the least-understood… Read the rest “70-mile-long, 300-foot-wide crack opens in Antarctica.”
Nature salutes the gene-sequencing of the 10,600-year-old Spirit Cave Man – and his return to what we now know are his descendants, the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe:
… Read the rest “America’s oldest mummy is coming home – to Nevada.”The case follows
Science Daily looks at the neurons that rev up and those that spin down when different parts of your brain are used – a trick based on humans’ knack for “selective attention”… Read the rest “Bits of your brain are falling asleep and waking up right now.”
Look up just right, and this is what you’ll see.
From the “Sun In Time” page of the Solar Dynamics Observatory’s Atmospheric Imaging Assembly… Read the rest “Science Art: The Sun, December 4, 2016, Wavelengths 304-211-171”
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