These are prehistoric bone tools used by prehistoric humans, or “Cultural additions from the double grave of Oberkasssel,” as the title reads in German.… Read the rest “Science Art: Kulturbeigaben des Doppelgrabes von Oberkasssel, 1919.”
Science has the cheerful results of a study in the U.S. Pacific Northwest that found a compound from rubber tires – a chemical so common, researchers call it “ubiquitous”… Read the rest “Coho salmon are getting killed by road runoff contaminated with rubber-tire chemicals.”
Scientific Reports has some really remarkable 3D images (and printed replicas) of snakes, birds, and cats that were mummified by ancient Egyptians more than 2,000 years ago:
… Read the rest “New X-rays give an unprecedented look inside mummies.”Abstract:
Science News has a report on nanoneurosurgery, using super-small, magnetically controlled machines to encourage separated neuron fibers to make new connections:
… Read the rest “Tiny robots stitch nerves together”Engineers Eunhee
This is what our Sun looked like on Thanksgiving Day. There are sunspots across the lower right of the image, visible here as what sunspots actually are – very large… Read the rest “Science Art: Thanksgiving Day sunspots (SOHO EIT 171 Latest Image: 2020/11/26 13:00), by NASA & ESA”
An image of yeast, originally made by NASA (though the context is now unclear, since the web page Wikimedia Commons sourced the photo from no longer exists).
The name “Hefezellen”… Read the rest “Science Art: Hefezellen”
Science News looks at new research revisiting an old idea – that mass extinctions have something to do with reversals in Earth’s magnetic fields. The two phenomena are looking… Read the rest “Scientists suspect magnetic fields in mass extinctions.”
EurekAlert! posts a report on the study in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research called “Getting Conservatives and Liberals to Agree on the COVID-19 Threat,”… Read the rest “Lehigh study probes why COVID-19 gets different responses from conservatives and liberals.”
From the ESA Image Gallery, dated 28 Aug 2020, comes an image of a portion of the Cygnus supernova, a blast wave 2400 light-years distant from a dying star 20 times larger … Read the rest “Science Art: At the edge of the blast, Hubble Space Telescope, 2020.”
How could it stay hidden? Science magazine celebrates the first big reef discovery in 120 years… and it really is big:
… Read the rest “We just discovered a reef taller than a skyscraper.”At 500 meters tall, the reef surpasses the height of the Empire
XKCD’s Randall Munroe, writing now for The New York Times, explores a scientific mystery more baffling than quantum physics – what makes sand feel softer or harder:
… Read the rest “The mystery of sand.”If you
New Scientist looks at the origins of life – which may be revealed by a ring-shaped molecule we just found on Saturn’s moon Titan:
… Read the rest “Molecular ring on Titan could be key to life on Earth.”The molecule is called cyclopropenylidene
A new beginning, from Elements of Philippine Agriculture on archive.org (though I found it on Flickr Commons).
Big Think has a piece on a NASA concept to convert atmosphere – and specifically, the gases we animals exhale – into protein powder like folks put in their smoothies:
… Read the rest “A Finnish company is making food out of air – CO2 & water, to be precise.”A company
Archaeology wonders about the original purpose of a pair of snub-nosed figurines excavated from a Bronze Age hillfort in northern Europe. Were they religious relics or children’s… Read the rest “Puzzling pair of Polish pigs from 3,500 years ago.”
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