IFL Science has some new findings about people with aphantasia — that is, people who don’t have an inner movie-screen playing thoughts as images. There are more of them than… Read the rest “Psychedelics can open the mind’s eye, kind of literally.”
News Atlas reports on an industrial-scale sand battery that is replacing a woodchip-fired power plant in Pornainen, Finland, with clean heat and energy:
… Read the rest “Sand battery takes over heating duties for Finnish city.”It’s set to reduce carbon
PhysOrg redefines what “attractive” is for the deep-sea set, thanks to a study that has found male ghost sharks grow a retractable, tooth-covered rod out of their foreheads… Read the rest “Ghost sharks have teeth on their foreheads because it’s sexy.”
I found this illustration in the Wikimedia Commons “Category: Radicals” collection – it stood out from the other diagrams and models. Maybe because it looks a little… Read the rest “Science Art: Bisphenalenyl Biradical Ball, by Jynto, 2011”
Space brings us new analyses of stellar graveyards, which astronomers study to discover how stars develop and, eventually, die – turning into dense neutron stars or denser black… Read the rest “Giant black-hole binaries spinning in star graveyard”
PhysOrg reports on Flinders University researchers who have found that soil microbes can affect our gut biota, which in turn can influence our emotional lives, including our feelings … Read the rest “Dirty love: Soil steering our emotions”
A General Electrodynamics Corporation ad for a television camera vidicon, a video camera tube – a thing that works like an old-fashioned television screen, scanning a ray of electrons… Read the rest “Science Art: If Resolution and Recognizability are Important to You…, 1966”
The Planetary Science Institute reports on what space missions have learned from studying a strange, sinuous series of formations on the surface of Mars that resemble the curves and folds… Read the rest ““Brain coral terrain” tells a story of Martian history.”
Yes, this is AI art. But it is AI art that is by AI and about AI.
From the image description on Wikimedia Commons:
… Read the rest “Science Art: How ChatGPT visualizes itself.webp, by ChatGPT”ChatGPT 4 generated this image based on the following prompt: “Generate
PhysOrg shares evidence that Neolithic humans — the farmers of the Stone Age — were a lot more into eating each other than previously thought:
… Read the rest “Our cannibal grandparents”Francesc Marginedas at the Catalan
I mean, parents already kinda know this, but now Translational Psychiatry has studied (and is continuing to study) a group of teens from before the pandemic to now and found that the stress… Read the rest “The covid pandemic rewired teens’ brains”
The fish, the fishes of the world, including at least one extinct fish (#21, Ceratodus, the coelacanth-looking one down there on the bottom left). There are remoras, cow fish, sturgeon … Read the rest “Science Art: Poissons (B), by Adolphe Millot .”
Anthropology.net looks at two 7th-century graves from different parts of England — Kent and Dorset — that prove African-descended people were living in England practically… Read the rest “DNA reveals Africans in medieval England.”
bioGraphic celebrates the discovery, at long last, of the phenomenon behind a mysterious wave of rather horrific sea star deaths on America’s Pacific Coast. Now, researchers are… Read the rest “Sea star killer found. Now what?”
These are some of the first goldfish ever seen in Europe.
The image (which I found in a great Public Domain Review article) came from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine, written in … Read the rest “Science Art: Long-Tsing-Yu or Les Yeux des Dragon ”
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