No gunpowder was harmed in the making of this photograph. That’s just the power of a lot of magnetism making a hunk of metal go really, really fast through the air. … Read the rest “Science Art: Photograph taken from a high-speed video camera during a record-setting firing of an electromagnetic railgun (EMRG)…, 2008.”
Science News opens a new book on an old pigment, reconstructing a botanical purple-blue hue that had puzzled medievalists for ages:
… Read the rest “Medieval Blue is Remade”The pigment, called folium, graced the pages of medieval
Science News has what’s practically a Godzilla story: the discovery that residue from Cold War-era nuclear bomb tests can be found inside the bodies of the world’s largest… Read the rest “There are nuclear-bomb layers in whale sharks’ bones.”
Ars Technica looks at the world’s oldest bit of string and find it tells a profound story about Neanderthal life:
… Read the rest “Neanderthal yarn proves math skills in prehistoric culture.”The 6.2mm (0.24 inch) long bit of thread, spun from plant fibers, is
Not a landscape, nor a texture, but an electrical conductor.
From Mr. Pervan’s explanation on Wikimedia Commons:
… Read the rest “Science Art: 3D Printed Copper Surface, vol. 1, by David Pervan, 2018.”My research is on using 3D printing to make conductive
The New York Times looks at two different batches of genetic data which both indicate that shutting down travel from China didn’t actually affect the spread of the virus in New York,… Read the rest “New York’s coronavirus outbreak came from Europe, not China.”
CNET (among others) has brought us news at the confluence of two contemporary concerns: Are we carrying germs we don’t know about? and … Just how private is *anything* we do … Read the rest “Stanford’s butt-reading toilet knows how healthy you are.”
From the USGS:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Aerial image and satellite derived image of Florida lakes, by Richard P. Stumpf, U.S. Geological Survey.”This image is a cropped rendition of two aerial images that demonstrate satellite-derived cyanobacteria concentrations in surface waters from an area
That’s before Homo sapiens came on the scene. Science News looks at new evidence that three different species of human ancestors were present in the same area:
… Read the rest “There were a bunch of different humans hanging out in southern Africa”Excavations at Drimolen,
Scientific American has some suggestions for your self-isolation. There are a few ways you can help researchers out without ever leaving home:
… Read the rest “Bored with hanging out at home? Count some penguins (or spot some galaxies) for science.”“I think where we can tap into people’s enthusiasm
Scientific American has more on how some astronomers are using the ocean itself to scan the skies:
… Read the rest “Telescopes deep under the sea are revealing secrets of deep space.”Suspended near the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea off France and Italy, 126 football-sized
The so-called “Siberian unicorn,” the Elasmotherium, a noble critter here pictured in the pages of Evolution of the Past, by Henry R. Knipe (with illustrations… Read the rest “Science Art: Elasmotherium by Alice B. Woodward, 1912.”
Science News shares 10 years of step-counting longevity research that indicates that slow, steady, and not stopping is the way to win the race – or at least to lengthen your lifespan… Read the rest “It’s not how fast you walk, but how many steps you take that helps you live longer.”
New Scientist has some uplifting news about the ozone hole. It’s fixing itself at last, and as it does so, the planet’s wind patterns are returning to normal:
… Read the rest “The southern jet stream is finally going back to normal as the ozone hole closes.”Before 2000, a
You know, I went looking for some non-coronavirus science news, and Nature provided this gem of a headline about a plucky Drosophilia fruit-fly species and its unusual infatuation with… Read the rest “Nature: “How a fly came to love the vomit fruit””
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