Science Art: Don’t Mix ‘Em!, by Robert Lachenman for the Work Projects Administration, 1936.
There’s a killer on the road indeed. The WPA released this poster to discourage drunk driving, or at least running your hotrod on moonshine. Public […]
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Here’s why long covid makes you tired.
Amsterdam-based researchers have isolated a physical mechanism behind the fatigue that strikes some people for months after a covid infection. It comes down to the […]
Dry canal costs billions.
Forbes covers a climate-change story about global trade and supply chains (something the pandemic taught the world about), focused on that thin isthmus between the […]
Giant, ancient predator worms discovered in Arctic Greenland
PhysOrg has another delightful story about prehistoric invertebrates. This time, researchers have discovered a half-a-billion-year-old enormous predator worm from the icy reaches of Northern Greenland: […]
Fossil preserves the soft parts of a 75 million-year-old crab.
PhysOrg has the story of a crab whose gills and other soft tissues were preserved against all odds for 75 million years: In a paper […]
Science Art: Punica Granatum, 1829
This tasty-looking fruit is from a medical text – Medical Botany: or, Illustrations and Descriptions of the Medicinal Plants of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin […]
What makes cheddar cheese taste so good?
Forbes looks into a year-long study hoping to determine exactly what it is that makes cheddar cheese taste like cheddar and not gouda or Swiss […]
SETI talked for 20 minutes with a whale.
Mashable has an alien communication story with an aquatic twist. SETI and the Alaska Whale Foundation practiced for first contact by spending 20 minutes “conversing” […]
Science Art: Lynxes, by Louis Sargent, 1909
Two cats at dusk, growling in the snow. The nights have been long, but they’re growing shorter. May you survive your own lonely wilderness and […]
Blue Origin is back in the space business.
Ars Technica reports on a rocket launch from Jeff Bezos’ space company – the first in 15 months, after an engine failure destroyed a New […]
New hair to heal hearing
Harvard genetic researchers have struck on a novel way to restore hearing loss from damage and old age … with gene therapy that regenerated hair […]
Solving the mystery of a 2,000-year-old body
BBC reports on a very, very cold case that’s been solved. A body found during roadwork, extending a highway between Cambridge and Huntington, England, has […]
Science Art: Ancient Ritual White Jade Disk of Heaven…, 1937
This is an illustration from a 1937 edition of Natural History magazine, an article called “Chinese Design.” This is a “Disk of Heaven,” or bi, […]
Japanese high schooler discovers beetle species.
The Japan Times covers a brand new (to us) prehistoric dung beetle that a high school student discovered while breaking rocks in class: During a […]
What will it mean to bring extinct animals back?
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 thing. But […]