BBC reports on the accidental discovery of an immense, forgotten Mayan city in the Mexican jungle by an archaeology PhD student browsing the internet:
… Read the rest “Lost Mayan city found by accident… online.”Archaeologists found pyramids,
This is a photograph of a strangely-shaped galaxy, as taken by the Webb Space Telescope. Or rather, a set of “interacting” galaxies, known collectively as Arp 142. From the… Read the rest “Science Art: Interacting Galaxies Arp 142 (MIRI Image), by NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI.”
The American Chemical Society looks at homegrown (or farmed) tomatoes and finds that the way in which they’re watered can make a difference in how well they grow:
… Read the rest “The way you water your tomatoes matters, not just how much you water ’em.”Researchers reporting
Outside reports on a study that finds meditation can have a profound effect not only on your mental wellbeing, but also on your physical endurance and athletic performance:
… Read the rest “Meditate for marathons.”…[R]esearchers
This is how the the US Navy tried to get recruits to stand tall during World War II, with anatomical studies of slouching. How do you know if you’re slouching? Well, here’s how,… Read the rest “Science Art: Illustrations of poor and good posture, 1943.”
Heatmap reports on some SpaceX alums — that is, former employees of the space corporation — who gave up on astronauting in favor of making some things work better down here/ … Read the rest “Using rocket science to make “carbon-negative” energy.”
iScience peers back through the mists of time to the Viking Age, when a saga describes a dead man being tossed down a castle’s well. Now, archaeologists are pretty sure they’ve… Read the rest “They found the body of someone from the sagas.”
Need a lift? These are hooks designed for lifting … well, whatever you need picked up.
I found them in (deep breath): The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices,… Read the rest “Science Art: Hooks, Swivels, &c. ”
The European Space Agency reports on the team who successfully decoded an “alien” transmission actually sent by a probe orbiting Mars as part of a multidisciplinary project… Read the rest “Daddy-daughter alien decoding.”
Or at least, to be a little closer to what this Current Opinion in Psychology study is really saying, social media creates a false sense of what “normal” is, amplifying every… Read the rest “Social media makes you weird.”
This is what German pastor Johann August Ephraim Goeze dubbed a “tiny water-bear” when he first spotted it among the animacules in the droplets of stagnant water under his … Read the rest “Science Art: Kleiner Wasserbär, 1773”
Science Alert looks at some pretty interesting findings from Anglia Ruskin University researchers on the effects music can have on human physiology… especially in the brain, and… Read the rest “Music can be medicine – especially for dementia.”
I’m not sure what to make of this, other than that it’s a worm that somehow feeds on or otherwise inconveniences tigers and monkeys. So I suppose it’s a tropical or subtropical… Read the rest “Science Art: Parasites: a parasitical worm, shown much enlarged, with its hosts, by J. Svoboda after L.W. Sambon.”
Science Daily reports on simple organisms called “comb jellies” (a.k.a. “ctenophores”) that have a weird way to overcome physical trauma. If two or more of … Read the rest “Two creatures can become one.”
Ars Technica salutes NOAA hurricane scientist Peter Dodge, who underwent his 387th storm “penetration” aboard an airplane flying into Category 5 Hurricane Milton …… Read the rest “Peter Dodge’s final cyclone.”
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