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Plate LXXVII: The First Picture of an American Butterfly from The Butterfly Book by W.J. Holland, 1930 edition.

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Click to embiggen In 1930, this picture… or rather, the picture with the inscriptions beside it… had never before been published. And the inscriptions are […]

Young blood heals old bones. (Literally. Go figure.)

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Smithsonian reveals a new way to heal the easily-broken bones of the elderly – by exposing the fractures to younger blood: “The traditional concept is […]

Snakes had ankles a long, long time ago.

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Science Daily paints a picture of the very first snakes… before they lost their feet: The study, led by Yale University, USA, analyzed fossils, genes, […]

Engineered yeast grows opiates at home.

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Nature opens the door to home-brewed heroin – just add water and sugar: A paper published on 18 May in Nature Chemical Biology reports the […]

The moonfish is warm-blooded.

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Science Daily throws our sense of things slightly out of whack with news that there’s a fish out there that’s entirely warm-blooded: New research by […]

Science Art: Os Maxillaires Fossiles, by Pieter Camper.

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Click to embiggen Jaws! Pieter Camper was a fossil collector, and in 1786, he drew this jaw he’d acquired. He thought it belonged to a […]

We can watch your mind changing. This is what a decision looks like.

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Science Daily goes deep, deep into our innermost selves and reveals what a brain looks like the moment a mind changes: The findings result from […]

A solar sail unfurling. Not sometime in the unspecified future – *next week*.

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Bill Nye, more than just an enthusiast on the TV, has gotten a group together – part of The Planetary Society – to test a […]

Mobile phone microscope saving lives (and eyes) in Africa

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Nature has more on a cell phone gizmo that’s changing how medicine is done in remote places: In a study in Science Translational Medicine on […]

Science Art: From Die Frau als Hausärztin by Anna Fischer-Dückelmann, 1911

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This is a naked woman, as seen in 1911 by a German medical expert. The book’s title translates to “The Woman As Family Doctor,” and […]

Poverty shrinks kids’ brains.

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Nature measures the price of poverty, and the effect it has on children. A bi-coastal study has found that poverty shrinks kids’ brains from birth: […]

An 800-year-old Viking note found. Written in runes on a slip of wood.

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Science Nordic hails a medieval discovery in the heart of Odense, Denmark – a medieval runestick written by someone named Tomme: It isn’t easy to […]

Using tDCS – mild electric jolts to stimulate your brain – actually hurts your IQ score.

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Science Daily reports on University of North Carolina research that shows transcranial stimulation, the fascinating new tech that uses mild DC current to “switch on” […]

Short, simple abstracts… aren’t cited as much as those with abstracts tending to maximize the high-verbosity quotient.

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Laboratory Equipment has sad news for those of us who like straight, simple, elegant communication. It appears that scientific articles with abstracts packed with (unnecessary […]

In the Martian morning, there’s dew… (and it’s eating away our rover’s wheels)

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Science writer Leonard David is concerned. It seems like Mars Rover Curiosity is having some unusual wear on it wheels… erosion and corrosion that seems […]

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  • Laura Veirs, who knows her way around a polysyllable.
  • 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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