We can get back to the night sky. But it will take work.
Ars Technica reports on the ongoing blotting out of the stars at night, with artificial light pollution doubling in the last 10 years alone. There […]
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Vikings brought animals to England, radioactive analysis shows.
Science News looks at a Viking burial site in England where animals were buried alongside humans, and finds that radioactive traces show these critters traveled […]
Science Art: Deceleration of Mars Science Laboratory in Martian Atmosphere, 2011
An image from NASA/JPL-Caltech depicting a capsule starting to slow down in the Martian atmosphere. All we see is the outer structure, which seems mostly […]
Researchers: one police stop makes a person less likely to vote.
Bolts magazine has an article by one of the researchers published in American Political Science Review who found that police interactions directly correlate with lower […]
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, […]
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 […]