Science News has something (perhaps small, perhaps strange) to be optimistic about. The endangered river mussels of America’s eastern mountains might go back to cleaning their… Read the rest “We’re going to save the mussels of Appalachia. Yes, we are.”
Science magazines has some striking visualizations of the atomic bombing’s long-lasting repercussions in their latest issue – and have had their graphics managing editor,… Read the rest “We’re still looking at the effects of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
Science Daily shares research from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, that gives us a new handle on predicting when the worst solar flares will come, giving us enough extra… Read the rest “We’ve got a new way to predict solar flares.”
Science News dashes the popular image of sperm as swimming furiously by spinning their tails like boat propellers. Instead, the little guys only move their tails in one direction, and keep… Read the rest “Sperm do lopsided barrel-rolls. They don’t have propeller tails.”
The moon is a body in space that reflects the light of our sun back at us. Which might sound a little weird to say, but this picture does make it all a little easier to grasp.
It’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Phases of the Moon, 1844.”
Nature produces one more clue that if any prehistoric “cave men” were the tough, insensitive brutes, it was our ancestors. Neanderthals, a new gene study has determined, … Read the rest “Neanderthals were more sensitive to pain.”
PLOS ONE has an interesting look at brain plasticity – that is, your ability to learn new things, change the way you do things, and remember where the heck you left your keys – … Read the rest “Dancing is better than repetitive exercise for keeping elderly brains fit.”
BBC is not intimidating us all with news that researchers with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology have treated a colony of dormant microbes from the bottom of the South… Read the rest “Scientists have woken up 100-million-year-old microbes.”
Scientific American looks at how these starfish relatives don’t need eyes to see:
… Read the rest “A brittle star’s whole body is an eye.”And yet now there appears to be something far stranger about the biology of at least one species:
The Atlantic looks at the problem with the way public responses to the pandemic have evolved into rituals that look “disinfecting” but really aren’t nearly as effective… Read the rest “Hygiene theater: All the hand sanitizer in the world is kinda beside the point.”
An inner ear, dear, from The human body; an account of its structure and activities and the conditions of its healthy working, by the Martins: H. Newell and Ernest Gale. … Read the rest “Science Art: A section through the cochlea in the line of its axis, 1910.”
“Bad Astronomer” Phil Plait, over at SyFy.com, explains a new study that demonstrates how the red giant Betelgeuse might have gotten so big – by eating another star… Read the rest “Betelgeuse, the cannibal.”
Guano mining is a real thing, and a really fascinating thing. And sometimes a really dangerous thing, too. The Bioscience Resource Project revisits the case of some Chinese miners who, … Read the rest “New COVID hypothesis: not bat meat, but bat mines.”
This is something I first assumed was a very early typewriter or printing press, from the Bavarian State Library’s copy of Bellicorum instrumentorum liber cum figuris et fictitys… Read the rest “Science Art: Mechanische Maschinen und Automaten 49, from Bellicorum instrumentorum liber cum …, 1420-1430”
Satellite Streak Watcher is a project on the AnecData citizen science site that asks anyone with a cell phone to take a picture of the night sky to see just how many satellites there really … Read the rest “Help track satellites (for astronomers worried that they’re starting to block out the stars.)”
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