CNN is covering the Skydweller, a plane powered by more than 17,000 solar panels, enabling it to stay aloft for month, doing the same work a satellite would do at a slightly lower altitude … Read the rest “Solar plane can do the job of a satellite without going into space.”
Science News looks at interleukin-13, an immune-system protein linked with allergies that make it hard to breathe – and make it hard for the SARS-CoV-2 virus to gain a foothold in … Read the rest “Got allergic asthma? Congratulations – you’ve also got some COVID-19 protection.”
These are beetles, mostly from southern Asia except the last one, Dexoris, which is from Sierra Leone. These specific beetles became British (perhaps posthumously) and were recorded … Read the rest “Science Art: Lycidae, Plate XVIII, Edw. A. Smith, 1879”
The-Scientist explores a strange interaction that helped eliminate smallpox without us even noticing. The vaccine that helped eliminate this killer got an extra boost from local skin… Read the rest “Smallpox vaccine got a boost … from skin bacteria.”
Science News looks at the world through the eyes of Dalmanitina socialis, a creature extinct for 400 million years who could focus on objects as close as 3 centimeters and as far as 2 kilometers… Read the rest “Camera lens based on a trilobite’s eye keeps objects in focus near and far.”
This was one of the attractions in the Machinery Hall of the Great Centennial Exhibition of 1876, a blast engine made by the I.P. Morris Company. Why a blast engine? To make Bessemer steel.… Read the rest “Science Art: Blast Engine, 1870s.”
National Geographic takes a broad look at neurological studies done at labs around the world that show that even the “mild flu” version of COVID-19 can cause brain fog, memory… Read the rest “Brain scans show even a mild covid case can shrink your brain – as many of us are finding out.”
IFL Science (among other outlets) is reporting on studies published in Nature and the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports that looked at the mummified remains of children sacrificed… Read the rest “Inca sacrifices were given ayahuasca in their final hours.”
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French aviation pioneer Alphonse Pénaud designed this, with engineer Paul Gauchot, as an aeroplane that could land on water or on land. That was quite an ambition in … Read the rest “Science Art: Pénaud’s first sketch of an amphibian aeroplane, 1873”
Science magazine reports on new conclusions from the New Horizon spacecraft’s 2015 observations of ice volcanoes on Pluto, and what they could mean for the interior structure of… Read the rest “Pluto might have an underground ocean, if those icy volcanoes are any indication.”
Science News describes one of the odd issues facing our robotic exploration of the Red Planet, because sound waves travel differently in the thin atmosphere of Mars. Not just a different… Read the rest “There’s more than one speed of sound on Mars.”
Nature reveals one of the weird truths about the way we do science. Publishing research is sometimes referred to as “the academic conversation,” and analysis proves that … Read the rest “Want your research cited by other scientists? Give your paper a funny title.”
Irisosaurus yimenensis is a dinosaur discovered in 2020 in Yunnan, China, within the Fengjiahe Formation – a layer of sediment and fossils laid down in the Early Jurassic period,… Read the rest “Science Art: Irisosaurus yimenensis life restoration, by Ang Li.”
Scientific American introduces us to the RadSecure program, which aims to keep the radioactive isotopes in use all around us from getting too close for comfort (or good health):
… Read the rest “There’s radioactive material *everywhere*. Here’s who’s trying to clean up clinics and food processing plants..”Radioactive
Science News checks out the evidence for the oldest known skull surgery in America, a forehead-opening operation that took place between 3,000 and 5,000 years ago in what is now known as … Read the rest “A 3,000-year-old skull surgery in Alabama”
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