Mashable carries news from NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has found traces that ancient ripples left on primordial lake beds, which prove that far from being an ice-covered badland,… Read the rest “NASA Mars rover spots “possibilities for microbial habitability.””
This is a metal engraving by Charles Philippe Pillet, which I found in the Paris Museums Collections.
It’s considered a “numismatic” piece, but I don’t believe… Read the rest “Science Art: Le miscroscope [La Science], 1908.”
Astrobiology reports on a cross-disciplinary study that has found that the song of humpback whales has the same distinct mathematical structure as a human language:
… Read the rest “Whalesong is structured like a language.”Humpback whale song
Australia’s ABC reports on clues to a hidden past being found under the floor of a former immigration depot and women’s asylum, shedding new light on the lives of not-terribly-visible… Read the rest “Women’s history found under immigrant asylum floorboards”
We are at a point where this had to be published, but Stat has here gathered the actual data into one easy-to-read explainer for why we actually do really, truly know that vaccinations don’t… Read the rest “So here’s *why* vaccines don’t cause autism.”
How are we teaching the learning-machines to speak? Ars Technica reports on the discovery (or revelation, maybe) that it’s possible to do away with that infuriating, inaccurate… Read the rest “Get better searches by swearing at Google.”
This is one of the plates from the 100 illustrations in Kunst-Formen der Natur, or “Art Forms in Nature,” by Ernst Haeckel, a scientist – or philosopher of science –… Read the rest “Science Art: Cystoidea, by Ernst Haeckel”
IFL Science reports on the 121-gram sample that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe collected from Asteroid Bennu — a handful of dirt that shows a wealth of chemicals necessary to form… Read the rest “Asteroid Bennu rich in ancient life-sustaining stuff.”
Reuters has what seems like a nostalgic headline from the 1800s, but no, it’s happening now. There’s an outbreak of consumption – that is, tuberculosis – underway… Read the rest “Tuberculosis in Kansas City.”
Such was science in 1925. A man in a fedora and tie, pointing at impact craters on the ground, standing next to a large rock, resting one foot on it in fact. He’s probably a geologist …… Read the rest “Science Art: Boulder ejected from Halemaumau, at Kīlauea, May 11, 1925”
Scientific American is still following the progress of the H5N1 flu virus, and finding it’s spreading more than anyone would want — especially if you happen to be a bird:
… Read the rest “Bird flu still spreading in cats.”Avian
This is an image from one of the ages before dinosaurs. I found it by looking for Anomalocaris, which was a sort of terrifying sea predator that was something like an armored cuttlefish, or… Read the rest “Science Art: Reconstrucción de Tuzoia canadensis, con Anomalocaris atrás, 2022.”
Nature reports on Chinese researchers who found a way to make the body get rid of cancer — by disguising tumors as transplanted pig organs, so the body rejects them:
… Read the rest “Tricking the immune system into attacking tumors.”Immunologist and
Science Daily has news from Colorado State chemical researchers, who’ve found an adhesive that does the work of superglue, but is “biodegradable, tunable, and reusable”… Read the rest “Sustainable superglue.”
This delightful diagram appears on a page of A New Astronomy For Beginners that also has an almanac of “Important Future Eclipses” from 1898 (January 22, East African and India)… Read the rest “Science Art: Earth’s Shadow and Penumbra in Sections, 1898.”
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