The gap between rich and poor is growing faster in the U.S. than Europe.
Researchers from Imperial College London and the Paris School of Economics have looked across the pond at 50 years of data and found that America, […]
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Kids are wearing toxic make-up
The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health has released an alarming study that’s found levels of carcinogens and other toxic materials, including lead […]
Science Art: DNA Double Helix, by the National Human Genome Research Institute
An image of the machine that builds our bodies, bit by bit. From the National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, located at […]
Study: ChatGPT could earn an MBA from Wharton
A professor at the prestigious Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania – probably America’s most highly regarded business school – has found […]
Get ready for some small modular nuclear plants.
AP News reports on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approving the first design for a new kind of nuclear power plant that’s smaller and less […]
Science Art: Just Missed Him, by G.E. Lodge, 1898.
I wasn’t sure if this really counted as a scientific illustration, despite finding it in the Biodiversity Heritage Library, since most of the other plates […]
New invention won’t let you LOL without, you know, laughing out loud.
Vice reports on the LOL Verifier, a device that won’t let you type out “LOL” in a message unless you’ve actually just laughed out loud: […]
Despite their public stance, Exxon’s internal science team had a clear view on climate change.
Ars Technica looks at the way Exxon executives decided to bury their own company’s very accurate findings on petroleum and climate: Exxon’s scientific climate work […]
Science Art: Corynactis Viritis (et al), Phillip Henry Gosse, 1860.
These are sea anemones, from History of the British Sea-Anemones and Corals by Phillip Henry Gosse. They are, according to the caption below: 1-5 Corynactis […]
Anesthesiologists issue painful pot warning in new guidelines.
MedPage Today shares a painful finding from the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA Pain Medicine), who have issued guidelines for pre-operative […]
Webb snaps Milky Way-like galaxies taking shape long, long ago.
PhysOrg looks back (via the James Webb Space Telescope) to when the universe was a quarter of its current age, and has been able to […]
Science Art: Experimental Electricity Course, 1916.
This is how you advertise a science book. At least, it was how Hugo Gernsback did in the pages of The Electrical Experimenter in September […]
Nebraska researcher identifies the first known virus-eating organism.
EurekAlert presents the findings of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s John DeLong, who has found the first known virovore – a microorganism that feeds on viruses: […]
Science Art: Papillons, from Larousse Universe, 1922
Thanks to an unexpected gift from an old friend, I was just reading an article in the print edition of Scientific American about the Sora […]
Motorcycle rallies are a boon … for people waiting for organ donors.
MedPage Today maps the correlation between riding fast and free and donating your young organs to people who need them: Compared with the 4 weeks […]