This is a photograph of a model from the Field Museum of Natural History, representing a cycad flower reconstructed from a fossil.
The fossil came from the Cycad National Monument, established… Read the rest “Science Art: A Fossil Flower (Cycadeoidea ingens), 1924.”
Science News reports on a presentation at the recent Lunar and Planetary Science Conference by researcher Abhilash Ramachandran, who found that rice – one of our planet’s… Read the rest “Martian soil is nice for rice.”
The Space Shuttle Discovery shot this photo of the International Space Station flying high over the Caspian Sea during the STS-114 Return to Flight mission. The shuttle had been docked … Read the rest “Science Art: ISS Aug 2005, by NASA.”
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine looked (I’m tempted to say “longingly”) at the sex lives of middle-aged women, and found the main factor influencing… Read the rest “No sex, please. Not menopausal, just busy! (Research says.)”
Riddles are funny! BBC reports on the discovery at the Hathor Temple in southern Egypt of a small sphinx with an engaging grin that might have been modeled on the Emperor Claudius:
… Read the rest “Cute, smiling mini-sphinx found in Egypt.”The limestone
Ars Technica celebrates an underwater discovery: the surprisingly well-preserved wreck of the schooner barge Ironton, which went down in 1898 after colliding with the Great Lakes freighter… Read the rest “Lake Huron reveals 19th-century shipwreck.”
“Screws at one single cut,” the ad boasts. This is an ad from the front of The Engineer’s Sketch-Book of Mechanical Movements, by Thomas W. Barber – full title:… Read the rest “Science Art: Britannia Co.’s Patent Screwing Machine, 1890.”
PNAS reports on some unanticipated consequences of solar farming – but things that banks of solar panels that are unexpectedly good, not bad:
… Read the rest “Solar panels increase crop yields, insulate reservoirs, and can help farmers.”To generate as much energy as a conventional
BBC reports on a mechanical elephant that is replacing a flesh-and-blood elephant that previously conducted rituals in a temple in Kerala, India:
… Read the rest “Kerala temple introduces a robot ritual elephant.”The initiative by authorities at Irinjadappilly
The journal Human Movement Science carries research from Swiss sports scientists who have used ballet dancers to figure out how it can be possible for a human being to keep spinning on one… Read the rest “How a ballerina spins, as a neurophysical phenomenon.”
It’s a wickle baby slipper lobster!
That color came from it being prepared on a slide so it could be examined under a microscope. The legs and antenna are all its own. Evibacus princeps… Read the rest “Science Art: Evibacus princeps, 2019”
DARPA reports on the Air Combat Evolution program’s newest breakthrough, which took a regular F-16 fighter jet, equipped it with an Artificial Intelligence program capable of … Read the rest “An AI fighter plane has taken off, engaged a simulated enemy and landed without a human pilot’s help.”
This is a painting of Mimodactylus libanensis soaring over what Nature (where it was first published) called “Afro-Arabia,” a continent that existed many millions of years… Read the rest “Science Art: Mimodactylus in life, 2019.”
EurekAlert shares a University of Queensland study that shows a turn to violence among courting whales along Australia’s eastern seaboard. Whales seeking mates are giving up courtship… Read the rest “Australian whales looking for mates have given up singing and taken up fighting.”
Ars Technica reports on a long-awaited milestone. After many not-quite-that-long missions, a NASA astronaut is on the way to finally spend more than a full year living in space:
… Read the rest “NASA astronaut finally ready to spend more than a year in space.”When Mark
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