There are campfires on the Sun.
Science Daily shares some of the discoveries from the first images of the Solar Orbiter mission – including the presence of “mini-flares” that astronomers have dubbed… Read the rest “There are campfires on the Sun.”
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Radio telescopes have spotted four very strange… things.
LiveScience has more on the entirely new, bright-edged circular objects, the so-called “odd radio circles” or ORCs that astronomers are struggling to figure out:
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Science Art: From Here, a number of broken gifts for the carpenters and lovers…., by Lorenz Stöer, 1567.
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The title here is the best I could render from the middle German “Hier Inn etliche zerbrochne Gebew, den Schreinern in eingelegter Arbeit dienstlich, auch vil andern… Read the rest “Science Art: From Here, a number of broken gifts for the carpenters and lovers…., by Lorenz Stöer, 1567.”
LSD use is rising among older folks – and it’s probably because people are looking for a way out. Even if it’s way out.
Scientific American analyzes the rise in LSD use and finds that it’s probably an attempt to lighten up – or at least get a new perspective – on a reality that’s gotten… Read the rest “LSD use is rising among older folks – and it’s probably because people are looking for a way out. Even if it’s way out.”
Turning the virus into a videogame.
Ireland’s RTÉ Brainstorm reveals how researchers are turning ordinary personal computers into a virus-killing supercomputer and recruiting gamers to solve puzzles that figure… Read the rest “Turning the virus into a videogame.”
Smell makes music inside our brains. Each aroma, a different melody.
Scientific American organizes some notes on the neurology of scent, with experiments that show the brain distinguishes between similar scents in the same way we hear notes of a song –… Read the rest “Smell makes music inside our brains. Each aroma, a different melody.”
Science Art: Structures of Brain (Взаиморасположение структур мозга – зрительный анализатор), by Coxer
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A brain with its structures, including the eyes and the olfactory bulb, labeled in Russian.
The thinking part.
Found on Wikimedia Commons.
Maybe ‘Oumuamua was a hydrogen iceberg. Not a comet. Not an asteroid. Hydrogen.
Scientific American has an unexpected explanation for the mysterious interstellar object dubbed “‘Oumuamua” that drifted into our solar system in 2017. Maybe the monolithic… Read the rest “Maybe ‘Oumuamua was a hydrogen iceberg. Not a comet. Not an asteroid. Hydrogen.”
Best COVID outcomes were where people stayed home on their own, cell phone data shows.
The Lancet looks at pandemic spread in the U.S. and finds that the places that seem to respond the best took precautions and stayed home before there were any government policies in place … Read the rest “Best COVID outcomes were where people stayed home on their own, cell phone data shows.”
The world’s second-deadliest Ebola outbreak just ended.
Nature has some good news about an infectious disease – the outbreak that had killed 2,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo appears to be over, thanks to a new vaccine:
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Science Art: Florarctus antillensis Van Der Land 1968, from “Tardigrades marins des Bermudes,” 1970
Click to embiggenA water bear from Bermuda, as published in 1970 (a good time to be in Bermuda). Florarctus antillensis was apparently first discovered in the coral sands of Curacao, also… Read the rest “Science Art: Florarctus antillensis Van Der Land 1968, from “Tardigrades marins des Bermudes,” 1970”
CERN is building a supercollider 100 km around.
Nature looks into a new push to build a really big (and really expensive) machine to work with really small particles:
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This T-shirt conceals you from digital surveillance.
Wired reveals a garment that doesn’t exactly make its wearer invisible, but makes it harder for an AI system – like those used in CCTV systems worldwide – to identify … Read the rest “This T-shirt conceals you from digital surveillance.”
Science Art: StyleGAN2 Example 2, Jan 2020
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Wikimedia Commons’ description of this average-looking guy simply reads: The man in this image does not exist. This face was constructed by a GAN program.
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Growing Neanderthal brains in the lab (using European stem cells).
CNN covers an odd project, using Svante Paabo’s reconstructed Neanderthal genome and European stem-cell banks to recreate mini-brain cell-clusters that are up to 20% Neanderthal… Read the rest “Growing Neanderthal brains in the lab (using European stem cells).”