Science Art: Lamprometra protectus, ventral view of a specimen with 23 arms from Stat. 125., 1918
This is a crinoid, a cousin to sea urchins, sea cucumbers and starfish. I suppose some of them have stalks like sea anemones, but these […]
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NASA’s Mars rover trains for “seven minutes of terror.”
BBC shares a video showing how February’s Perseverance Mars rover mission plans to start with an automated landing sequence engineers have dubbed “the seven minutes […]
Male crickets use leaves to make themselves seem bigger… in THAT way, yes.
Science News brings attention to male shortcomings and the gender’s creativity in overcoming them with a story about crickets who use leaves as megaphones, amplifying […]
Coronavirus has reached Antarctica
Reuters reports on the inevitable – COVID-19 has finally been carried to a research station in the Antarctic, breaking out in more than 30 people […]
Look southwest.
NASA has details on how to spot the Great Conjunction – the giant planets Jupiter and Saturn appearing almost as a single point of light […]
Science Art: In s is das Centrum fur den Meridian ANQ, 1857
Click to embiggen As described on Wikimedia Commons (who got this diagram from the British Library), the image was “taken from page 100 of ‘Grundzüge […]
The mystery of ancient Egyptian head cones has been solved.
National Geographic shares new clues to an age-old puzzle, deciphering what exactly the cone-shaped objects on some people’s heads really were in ancient Egyptian paintings […]
Shrews can shrink and regrow their brains.
The Scientist magazine investigates what’s going on inside the skulls of the tiniest terrestrial mammals. Etruscan shrews, it turns out, cope with winter’s demands by […]
Social media use linked to increased depression risk.
University of Arkansas is encouraging us to delete that app and stop feeding the feeds. A national study led by Dr. Brian Primack, dean of […]
Science Art: Holcorpa Maculosa Scudder
Click to embiggen A scorpionfly from the Miocene shales of Colorado, as the caption says in the Annual report of the Board of Regents of […]
Young ravens equal grown-up chimps on IQ tests.
Scientific American looks at a new round of tests that ravens as young as 4 months old have passed with flying colors, outwitting adult great […]
Mastodon tenderizers shift human history in North America wayyy back… again.
Science News reports on a twisty debate on human origins in North America, with a new analysis of stones embedded with microscopic bits of mastodon, […]
After six years, an asteroid sample reaches Earth.
Reuters reports on the success of the Hayabusa2 mission. The spacecraft, gone for six years, has finally come home with stuff scooped from an asteroid… […]
Science Art: Kulturbeigaben des Doppelgrabes von Oberkasssel, 1919.
Click to embiggen These are prehistoric bone tools used by prehistoric humans, or “Cultural additions from the double grave of Oberkasssel,” as the title reads […]
Coho salmon are getting killed by road runoff contaminated with rubber-tire chemicals.
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, […]