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The brain is not a blank slate. Here’s how it shapes what you see, what you don’t see, and what you think you know.

2 June 2022 grant 0

Scientific American looks at looking at. That is, the magazine – through an essay by systems neuroscientist György Buzsáki – surveys how it is that […]

The first animal communities are way, way older than you might think. (And weirder, too.)

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They had strange, branching forms, says Popular Science as they look over fossils from Newfoundland. And they took off centuries before the so-called “Cambrian explosion” […]

Voyager 1, the world’s most faraway space probe, is sending back weird signals.

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Space.com is calling the mysterious set of signals a “telemetry issue,” and experts say it shouldn’t be surprising that an interstellar ship launched 45 years […]

Scientific illustration of an auk, as the title page for the American Ornithologists' Union journal The Auk, from the early 20th century

Science Art: Title Page, The Auk, Vol. XXXI, 1914.

29 May 2022 grant 0

The American Ornithologists’ Union published a journal called The Auk in 1914, with articles in it like “A Plea for the Conservation of the Eider,” […]

Reading the DNA from Pompeii

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BBC reports on a study reassembling the genome of a man and woman preserved for centuries under the ash of Pompeii, and what the ancient […]

“Looty”: using NFTs to steal back looted African artworks, digitally.

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Reuters describes the Looty Project as one man’s crusade to finance new artists in Nigeria and Benin by selling NFTs minted from 3D images of […]

Scientific illustration of a Siemens star, a pattern used to calibrate optical equipment. It's a resolution tester.

Science Art: Power spectrum of Siemens star with 1024 line pairs per image height, by Bautsch, 2012.

22 May 2022 grant 0

This is a Siemens star, a pattern used to calibrate optical equipment – to see how well the lens (or raster, or driver, or whatever) […]

It feels less evil the second time around.

20 May 2022 grant 0

The Journal of Experimental Psychology defines something I think we’ve all had a feeling about – that the more you encounter a bad deed (or […]

Laugh, quantum computer, laugh… in IBM’s gum tree.

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Popular Science discusses what could be IBM’s quantum breakthrough – a quantum processor named “Kookaburra” that’s set to start computing in 2025: Last year, IBM […]

Scientific illustration of a ""Sinuous neck flask employed by M. Pasteur in his experiments against spontaneous generation"; in other words, antique laboratory glassware.

Science Art: “Ballon à col sinueux employé par M. Pasteur dans ses expériences contre la génération spontanée”, 1873.

16 May 2022 grant 0

This is some laboratory glassware used in Pasteur’s experiments, as illustrated in Les merveilles de l’industrie, an 1873 science book that has a marvelous gallery […]

Bats mimic buzzing hornets to scare predators away.

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Science magazine reveals the first known case of a mammal mimicking insect noises, in a study that found greater mouse-eared bats imitate stinging insect buzzes […]

Pop-song paradox: What it takes to be a one-hit wonder is the opposite of what it takes to have a long career.

11 May 2022 grant 0

Science News examines the science of the Top 40, with a survey of the charts that found what goes into that first, breakthrough hit is […]

Scientific illustration of transistors, as a piece of modern art from a 1972 Radio Shack instructional book.

Science Art: Cover, Introduction to Transistors & Transistor Projects, 1972.

8 May 2022 grant 0

This is… well, let me just quote the preface: This book is intended to show the electronics experimenter how the transistor was developed, how it […]

Solar plane can do the job of a satellite without going into space.

8 May 2022 grant 0

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 […]

Got allergic asthma? Congratulations – you’ve also got some COVID-19 protection.

5 May 2022 grant 0

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 […]

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Honorary Troubadours
  • Jonathan Coulton, Contributing Troubadour for Popular Science.
  • Laura Veirs, who knows her way around a polysyllable.
  • Thomas Dolby, godfather of scientific pop.
  • Squeaky, fact-based rock about fusion containment & rocket science.
  • Cosmos II, a.k.a. Boston University astronomer Alan Marscher.
  • Dr. Fiorella Terenzi, astrophysicist who makes music from cosmic radio sources.
  • Dr. Jim Webb, astronomy professor and acoustic guitarist.
  • Artichoke, the band behind 26 Scientists, Vols. I and II.
  • They Might Be Giants, unrelenting proponents of scientific popular song.
  • Symphonies of Science, the people who make Carl Sagan and others sing.
  • Giant Squid, doom metal about the sublime horrors of marine biology.
  • Gethan Dick,6 scientists, 6 musicians, 1 great album
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