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Little arms: T. rex didn’t invent them, and they didn’t come out of nowhere.

10 July 2022 grant 0

Science News looks at a newly discovered, large-headed carnivorous dinosaur that, like T. rex, had surprisingly small forelimbs. But these independently evolved little arms were […]

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria discovered in Antarctica. The question is: Will they stay there?

5 July 2022 grant 0

Reuters enlightens a pandemic-weary world with news of a discovery of new life in the icy wastes of Antarctica. Unfortunately, the Chilean scientists study the […]

Scientific illustration of the "goldilocks zone" of the Milky Way, an area where habitable planets - or, in this case, habitable solar systems - can form.

Science Art: The galactic habitable zone of the Milky Way, as predicted by Lineweaver et al (2004), NASA/Caltech 2013.

3 July 2022 grant 0

Solar systems have a “goldilocks zone” where planets capable of sustaining life forms similar to ours can form. Well, galaxies might also have a goldilocks […]

Octopus brains and human brains have “jumping genes” in common.

30 June 2022 grant 0

Science Daily reports on an Italian study that found something in common between human brains and the brains of two different species of the unusually […]

Self-driving, cabless semis are coming to U.S. roads.

27 June 2022 grant 0

TechCrunch rides along with Einride, a Swedish electric drone-trucking startup that’s bringing “self-driving pods” to U.S. public roads this year in partnership with GE Appliances: […]

Scieintific illustration of a rocket from the 1950s.

Science Art: Fig 2.1: Powder Rocket Projectile, 1956.

26 June 2022 grant 0

This is one of the first illustrations in V. I. Feodosiev’s and G. B. Siniarev’s Introduction to Rocketry, an English translation of a Russian text […]

The largest plant in the world stretches over 180 km and is 4,500 years old. And fish like it.

25 June 2022 grant 0

The University of Western Australia has singled out a seagrass, Poseidonia australis, in the waters of Shark Bay, Western Australia, as the world’s largest plant: […]

Polar bears without sea ice (a story of hope).

22 June 2022 grant 0

Nature reports on polar bears who appear to be adapting to climate change by altering their hunting strategies to survive in a world without sea […]

Science Art: Crabs (figures 212-216, Natuurlyke Historie, page 256, 1782.

19 June 2022 grant 0

A collection of crustaceans from a book by Amsterdam-based publisher Louis Renard on East Indian sea creatures. The illustrations were apparently done by Samuel Fallours, […]

Dolphins use corals and sponges as medicine – to treat their skin.

19 June 2022 grant 0

Science magazine takes a deep dive on the medical lives of dolphins, who appear to be intentionally using corals and other stuff growing on the […]

Exhaustion (or distraction) as a language-learning tool.

15 June 2022 grant 0

Kids acquire languages better than adults do – everyone knows that. But Scientific American looks at researchers with Ghent University’s Eleonore Smalle who went just […]

Chicken and rice go together – all the way to the origins of domestic fowl in grain fields.

13 June 2022 grant 0

Science News discusses two new studies that place the origins of domestic chickens in one specific place – Southeast Asia – and much more recently […]

Scientific illustration of plant life under the microscope

Science Art: Bole cross section of common hazel (Corylus avellana), by Annika Karusion, 2011

12 June 2022 grant 0

This is a microscope’s view of a plant’s stem, uploaded to Wikimedia Commons as part of the Estonian Science Photo Competition of 2011, which I […]

Sick of high crime? Support welfare. New study shows a dramatic link.

7 June 2022 grant 0

EurekAlert! posts a peer-reviewed study published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics that shows a “quite dramatic” correlation between the removal of welfare and an […]

Scientific illustration of a star spinning

Science Art: Artist’s concept of the fastest rotating star (VFTS 102), by NASA/ESA and G. Bacon (STScI).

6 June 2022 grant 0

This is a star spinning at 2 million kilometers per hour – so fast, it has made itself into its own twirling skirt, its own […]

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  • Cosmos II, a.k.a. Boston University astronomer Alan Marscher.
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