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Parrot-heads, celebrate: New isopod discovered in Florida Keys named for you-know-who.

27 July 2023 grant 0

PhysOrg introduces us to Gnathia jimmybuffetti, a little marine mystery-bug (or literally, “cryptofauna”) related to roly-poly pillbugs but named for that fella still looking for […]

Scientific Illustration of a Lunar Landing Research Vehicle in mid-flight. It's a NASA hovercraft, basically.

Science Art: Armstrong Through the Years – LLRV-3 by NASA Graphics/Kirstin Sharrer

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The Lunar Landing Research Vehicle-3 was an experimental Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) vehicle – a fancy hovercraft – that the Apollo astronauts used to […]

Bone jewelry means humans were in the Americas before the Bering Land Bridge.

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IFLScience reports on some stylish, retro bangles coming from a Brazilian designer that are taking the world by storm … because they were made from […]

Science Art: Osprey in Flight, by Enrique Patino, 2011

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The osprey is also known as the fish hawk, and as Pandion haliaetus, a name that comes from two parts: King Pandion II, the eighth […]

Ivory Lady was a prehistoric warrior queen (and maybe a warrior witch queen, too).

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CNN reports on a Spanish discovery that a 5,000-year-old skeleton buried with an elephant tusk, an ostrich egg, an ivory comb and two daggers – […]

A human-like ape might have decorated the graves of its dead 330,000 years ago.

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Science News reports on a controversy over Homo naledi, a human-like ape from 160,000 years before the first Homo sapiens, who might have been burying […]

Scientific illustration of a times table.

Science Art: Binary Operations – Multiplication Mod 16, by Inductiveload.

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This is a diagram of a times table. As the drawing’s description on Wikimedia Commons reads: Binary ring diagram to illustrate operators on binary numbers. […]

Astronomers might finally have seen the universe’s first stars.

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Scientific American reports on a James Webb Space Telescope discovery, allowing scientists the first possible glimpses of the very first stars ever to shine in […]

AI trained on AI tends to collapse (like most cannibalizing systems do).

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Venture Beat, a tech investing magazine, weighs in on research that looks directly at the problems that arise when AI is used to generate web […]

Cooking with gas increases cancer risk.

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I hate to read it, but NPR reported on a Stanford study that found gas stoves increase levels of benzene in the home – a […]

Scientific illustration of a meteorological diagram on a postage stamp. Looping black lines of atmospheric pressure mark an area where a warm front moves northeast where two cold fronts converge heading south.

Science Art: 100 years of international meteorological collaboration, by Karl Oskar Blase, 1973.

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30 pfennigs could get you a lot of weather back in 1973 in West Germany. It commemorates a century of teaming up to watch the […]

Women hunted, back in the hunter-gatherer days.

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PhysOrg has a study that defies the conventional idea of “man the hunter, woman the gatherer” with evidence that, in more than three-quarters of contemporary […]

AI is eating the web. Not as in coding, but as in its economy.

27 June 2023 grant 0

The Verge has one of the more interesting pieces (to me) about AI that I’ve seen lately, reporting less on “what do these content-making machines […]

Scientific illustration of a Torosaurus, the dinosaur with the largest skull.

Science Art: Outdated drawing of a torosaurus, 1905

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I was looking these particular dinosaurs up because I recently came across a news story about the world’s largest dinosaur skull being displayed somewhere new […]

Taurine, not telomeres, could be the key to a longer lifespan.

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Science Alert reports on research that finds that boosting levels of the amino acid taurine – present in meat, fish, and dairy, and one that […]