A Long Covid hypothesis: acids and bases.
Frontiers In Immunology has published a hypothesis – which is basically a call for more research – put out by two Long Covid sufferers who […]
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Dragon discovered: A new gecko species found on Australian island
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 […]
Here’s a Mars habitat, ready for a year’s occupancy.
PhysOrg reports on NASA’s Mars Dune Alpha, a 3D-printed home for researchers ready to spend a year simulating a mission on Mars: The facility, created […]
The last leg of the longest butterfly migration has been mapped at last.
Science News brings tidings from Central Africa, where painted lady butterflies born in Europe spend their winters in the longest migration of any butterfly: Pinpointing […]
Science Art: Male Wood Duck, by Abbott H. Thayer, 1904.
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 […]
Baseball hitters are getting more home runs, thanks to climate change.
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 […]
Not that you’d want to kiss them, but T. rex actually had lips.
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 […]
Any hormonal birth control increases your breast cancer risk.
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 […]
Science Art: Loess Sediments Thickness, by Przemysław Mroczek, 2020.
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 […]
Elemental music from a spectroscope.
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 […]
Science Art: Crew-5’s Nighttime Splashdown, by NASA/Keegan Barber, 2023
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. […]
Americans die young – and are dying younger than ever, compared to the rest of the world.
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 […]
Kids of same-sex parents are… pretty normal, according to an international study.
The Guardian reports on a geographically broad study – a study of studies from many different countries – that looked at same-sex couples and found […]
Nature‘s endorsement didn’t help Biden – it only hurt Nature (and scientists in general).
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 […]
Science Art: A Fossil Flower (Cycadeoidea ingens), 1924.
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 […]