This is one of four compass roses created by Vincenzo Coronelli, a 17th-century cartographer. I found them all on Wikimedia Commons, which got them from the French Bibliotheque Nationale… Read the rest “Science Art: From Four Roses des Vents, by Vincenzo Coronelli.”
Frontiers In Immunology has published a hypothesis – which is basically a call for more research – put out by two Long Covid sufferers who noticed something interesting about… Read the rest “A Long Covid hypothesis: acids and bases.”
The Guardian reveals Phyllurus fimbriatus, a charismatic, 15cm (6-inch) reptile otherwise known as the the Scawfell Island leaf-tailed gecko, which has never before been scientifically… Read the rest “Dragon discovered: A new gecko species found on Australian island”
PhysOrg reports on NASA’s Mars Dune Alpha, a 3D-printed home for researchers ready to spend a year simulating a mission on Mars:
… Read the rest “Here’s a Mars habitat, ready for a year’s occupancy.”The facility, created for three planned experiments
Science News brings tidings from Central Africa, where painted lady butterflies born in Europe spend their winters in the longest migration of any butterfly:
… Read the rest “The last leg of the longest butterfly migration has been mapped at last.”Pinpointing exactly where
This is half of one color plate from a book intended to show how “showy” coloration can actually make some creatures harder to spot in their natural habitats.
This is a male wood… Read the rest “Science Art: Male Wood Duck, by Abbott H. Thayer, 1904.”
Science reports on some unexpected consequences of a slightly warmer planet. In the statistics-heavy game of baseball, hitters have been averaging more home runs than ever for a lot of … Read the rest “Baseball hitters are getting more home runs, thanks to climate change.”
AP News reports on research into the fearful mouth of the scariest of flesh-eating dinosaurs which found that – despite the public image of Tyrannosaurus rex as being a snaggle-toothed… Read the rest “Not that you’d want to kiss them, but T. rex actually had lips.”
The University of Oxford has unfortunate news for anyone on the pill, or implant, or hormone-releasing IUDs. A new anaysis from the Oxford Population Health’s Cancer Epidemiology Unit… Read the rest “Any hormonal birth control increases your breast cancer risk.”
This map shows where silt was laid down untold ages ago. According to its brief description on Wikimedia Commons, it depicts: Loess sediments distribution and its thickness in western … Read the rest “Science Art: Loess Sediments Thickness, by Przemysław Mroczek, 2020.”
Ars Technica digs the research of Indiana University grad student W. Walker Smith, who has combined his interests in music and chemistry to create a “data sonification project”… Read the rest “Elemental music from a spectroscope.”
SpaceX Dragon Endurance returns to Earth on the night of March 11, 2023. Specifically, it’s just after 9:00 p.m. in the waters off Tampa, Florida.
As described in NASA’s image… Read the rest “Science Art: Crew-5’s Nighttime Splashdown, by NASA/Keegan Barber, 2023”
NPR looks at a subtle, slow-motion health crisis facing America. Compared to every other industrialized nation, across every age group, Americans die younger … and we’re… Read the rest “Americans die young – and are dying younger than ever, compared to the rest of the world.”
The Guardian reports on a geographically broad study – a study of studies from many different countries – that looked at same-sex couples and found that their children are … Read the rest “Kids of same-sex parents are… pretty normal, according to an international study.”
Nature honestly (and slightly brutally) examines its own shortcomings as a political advocate in a study that found the scientific journal’s 2020 endorsement of Joe Biden didn’t… Read the rest “Nature‘s endorsement didn’t help Biden – it only hurt Nature (and scientists in general).”
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