Science News chases the storm chasers who found some surprising air-purifying oxidant chemicals in the wake of major lightning strikes:
… Read the rest “Lighting cleans the air even more than we thought.”Researchers knew lightning produces nitric oxide,
Scientific American prepares for the launch of a new place in space – the core module of the CSS (China Space Station), which, after 29 years of planning, should be in orbit at the end… Read the rest “China ready to launch a big chunk of space station.”
Nature reports on experiments mapping out exactly how hungry people will feel over the next 24 hours – giving a hard number to what’s usually a vague sensation – by measuring… Read the rest “Blood-sugar test gives us the first way to quantify exactly how hungry you are.”
This is an image of nerves, the nerves of a dog, a new-born dog.
“Clarke’s column” is also called the posterior thoracic nucleus, a part of the spinal column. The main … Read the rest “Science Art: Transverse section through the region of Clarke’s column of the thoracic cord of a new-born dog, 1906”
The Scientist toasts the rediscovery of Coffea stenophylla, a relative of the C. arabica coffee plant our society runs on – that’s proved itself able to cope with some of the… Read the rest “Old coffee is coming back to save the business (and the species tastes great, too)”
This looks like a heraldic emblem to me, but it’s not. It’s also not merely an abstract diagram of circular forces, though that’s a little closer. It’s a schematic… Read the rest “Science Art: Scheme of quadrocopter impellent (X and H configuration), by Ulrich Heither”
Science News has disheartening news for would-be explorers or lovers of virgin wilderness. The latest survey has found that no more than 3 percent of Earth’s land remains untouched… Read the rest “Humans have touched 97% of the Earth’s land.”
Science magazine celebrates a new natural way to replace the artificial dyes that make candy, soda and ice cream blue – by stabilizing the pigments found inside red cabbage:
… Read the rest “Red cabbage could soon turn your food blue (and green and purple) – naturally.”The food
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This is a colorful map (literally called a mosaic!) of the area where Perseverance landed, only from a little higher up. You can see the pink semicircle of the crater, and… Read the rest “Science Art: Geologic Map of Jezero Crater and the Nili Planum Region, Mars (Scientific Investigations Map 3464), by Vivian Sun and Kathryn Stack.”
Scientific American predicts a lively summer 2021, with the noisy emergence of Brood X – three species of 17-year cicadas – filling the air with noise and with well-fed young… Read the rest “Brood X – the cicada boom we expect this summer – will boost birds. Temporarily….”
New Scientist reveals the cost of building a brain from scratch has just gone way, WAY down:
… Read the rest “We can grow brain tissue in a $5 microchip. (And it’s reusable.)”The device, dubbed a “microfluidic bioreactor”, is a 4-by-6-centimetre chip that includes small
Science News celebrates a discovery that may save the lives of hundreds of eagles, ducks, and other birds living on or near lakes in the southeastern United States every year. They’ve… Read the rest “After 20 years, they found the weird toxin that’s been killing eagles.”
This is an anatomical drawing of the blood vessels around the heart, but it’s odd to me how much it looks like a simple drawing of a heart, a Valentines heart, with wings.… Read the rest “Science Art: Diagram to Show the Destination of the Arterial Arches in Man and Mammals. (Modified from Rathke. )”
Translational Psychiatry has some research that should be making a bigger splash. It indicates that feeding kids more sugar affects the development of their brains and their ability to… Read the rest “Sugar – as in sweet sodas – disrupts kids’ brain development.”
Eurekalert introduces the next generation of living robots. Tufts University biologists and computer scientists have created a second generation of tiny, biological machines they’re… Read the rest ““Xenobots” are tiny robots made from living cells – self-healing swarms that can form bodies… and memories.”
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