The Japan Times covers a brand new (to us) prehistoric dung beetle that a high school student discovered while breaking rocks in class:
… Read the rest “Japanese high schooler discovers beetle species.”During a geoscience class in September last year,
Defector, mostly a sports-and-social-commentary outlet, asks a scientific question: We’re now at a point, genetics-wise, where we’re ready to make de-extinction a real… Read the rest “What will it mean to bring extinct animals back?”
This is the cover of a report on the Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical “Navy Mini-Drone (STARS),” otherwise known as the Manta Ray. It was a fiberglass remote-controlled drone; … Read the rest “Science Art: Ryan 262 Manta Ray: Program Status Report cover, 1975”
I know, I know, but this is a double-blind study with around 400 hundred subjects published in The Lancet. It’s a little more technical than I like to get with these science-feed posts,… Read the rest “Probiotics to treat long covid?”
Ars Technica reports on a bafflingly huge exoplanet spotted by the Webb Space Telescope. It’s the size of Neptune, but closely orbiting a star much smaller than ours – a red … Read the rest “That planet is too big.”
This is a… well, it’s pretty self-explanatory, really. Unlike most of the images collected here, it’s got its own description printed right on it. These are alien planets,… Read the rest “Science Art: Exoplanets Poster, Institute of Physics, 2023”
Wired reveals a very strange insect-monitoring device called DAS, or “distributed acoustic sensing,” normally used to track vibrations made by seismic shifts and volcanic… Read the rest “Cicadas are so loud, they cause fiberoptic-cable interference.”
Yes, you read that correctly. Science News reports on an unusual distinction in the natural world. Chinstrap penguins manage to net a total of 11 hours of restful sleep every day, thanks … Read the rest “Micro-napping champions: chinstrap penguins”
The Markup looks at what it’s like when you start hiring nurses the way you catch a ride from Uber:
… Read the rest “App-driven gig-economy nurses.”Gig nursing apps have become hugely popular with both nurses and investors, as an estimated
This is not a movie prop, but a working prototype of the Avrocar, a disc-shaped flying machine that graced the skies between 1959 and 1961.
It’s basically a giant fan sending a jet of… Read the rest “Science Art: Avro Canada VZ-9AV Avrocar.”
CNN had a report on the resurfacing of 2,000-year-old carved faces in the stony banks of a stretch of the Amazon River, which have peeked above the waterline due to a record-breaking drought… Read the rest “Faces appear as the Amazon gets low.”
This is an ad from the April 1966 “Tools and Test Measurement Issue” of Popular Electronics, which I found on archive.org. Lovely design on this mic. Rakish angle, sporty blue… Read the rest “Science Art: Turner +2: The Best CB Microphone in the World, 1966.”
The Guardian looks back at a carbonized papyrus scorched by the lava that consumed Pompeii. University of Kentucky computer scientists have been able to decipher letters printed on the… Read the rest “AI is reading scrolls burned in Vesuvius.”
Scientific American upends the old idea that manly men evolved to hunt for meat for growing prehistoric families with physiological evidence that women – who are better endurance… Read the rest “Exercise scientists: women hunted, men gathered”
Popular Science reported on “ghost ships,” a.k.a. USVs (Unmanned Sea Vehicles), passing their latest targeting tests on maneuvers in the Middle East:
… Read the rest “Robot warships hitting targets in the open sea.”The tests, dubbed
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