Listening to the music of the oldest stars.
Sci-News turns an ear to the heavens to learn about the oldest stars in the Milky Way – by listening to their acoustic oscillations: The […]
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Apollo’s Hydromancer
Ha’aretz reports on the oldest oracle to Apollo found in Athens – a place where a sacred seer drew water from a well to divine […]
Leaping Electric Eels!
Science Daily reports on a not-terrifying-at-all accidental discovery, that electric eels are perfectly capable of jumping out of the water to deliver a lethal dose […]
Science Art: Inside the Spacecraft During Gemini V Flight, by L. Gordon Cooper/NASA
Click to embiggen Here’s astronaut Charles Conrad Jr. as snapped by mission commander L. Gordon Cooper Jr., the “Gordo” from The Right Stuff, if you […]
Prisoners used in *data-harvesting* experiment.
Their tattoos, specifically, according to this piece in Motherboard. The FBI teamed up with the National Institute for Standards and Technology to create a database […]
Likes like chocolate. Likes like the jackpot. It’s true.
Science Daily reveals a neurological truth, found during a first-of-its-kind study of teens’ brains while engaging in social media – that getting Likes on Facebook […]
FDA approves anti-addiction implant
PopSci reports on the upper-arm implant that oozes buprenorphine, a drug that suppresses withdrawal symptoms and cuts the craving for opioid addicts: Called Probuphine, the […]
Science Art: Minecraft Colosseum replica (Amphitheatrum Flavium)
Click to play One of the more interesting trends in scientific illustration lately – and I do think that it’s exactly the same kind of […]
Puzzling out Neanderthal architecture.
Nature looks at some strange things Neanderthals built for… reasons… inside their cave homes: Neanderthals built one of the world’s oldest constructions — 176,000-year-old semicircular […]
Polar bears and grizzlies are making global-warming babies.
Washington Post has us – well, not exactly preparing for the end of the world, but definitely on our guard. When polar bears start mating […]
Science Art: Saturn F-1 Engine, 1964
Our first ticket off this rock. Saturn F-1 Engine is tested at the Marshall Center in 1964. Image credit: NASA/MSFC
You swallow this pork origami robot, see… no, really.
Washington Post reports on a swallowable, unfolding robot for retrieving the little batteries that little kids swallow: Across the United States, a child swallows a […]
Water on Mars? TSUNAMIS ON MARS!
Nature goes EXXXTREEEEME!!! in the search for evidence of water on Mars. And boy did they find evidence. Seems like a couple billion years ago, […]
Magic mushrooms against chronic depression.
Nature reports on the first safety study, published in The Lancet, of psilocybin mushrooms as a potent therapy for drug-resistant long-term depression: Researchers from Imperial […]
Science Art: Buffon’s Natural History, Taf. 7,
Two rays and a shark… and an egg case… from Buffon’s Natural History of the globe, and of man; beasts, birds, fishes, reptiles, and insects, […]