This how much the average temperature in Scotland has changed, year over year, since 1884. The white stripes represent the average temperature in Scotland between 1971… Read the rest “Science Art: Warming Stripes for Scotland from 1884-2018, from #ShowYourStripes, University of Reading’s Institute for Environmental Analytics.”
BBC News has the story (told in many photos) of Thibault, a man who has been able to move all four limbs with a robot body he controls with two brain implants:
… Read the rest “Paralyzed man moves, thanks to mind-controlled exoskeleton.”Sixty-four electrodes on each implant
Science Daily takes a few deep breaths and plunges into a Columbia/Harvard/Boston University study that’s found that aspirin can protect lungs against damage from air pollution… Read the rest “Aspirin against air pollution? Really?”
Science News takes rhinovirus by the (one) horn with a study that finds a weak spot in the way the germ spreads inside our cells:
… Read the rest “Disabling one protein might (finally) cure the common cold. Thing is, the protein’s not in the germ – it’s in us.”Researchers have identified a key protein in humans that some
A machine that converts heat into motion – an amazing feat – from the book New Conceptions in Science by Carl Snyder, found in the Wellcome Collection. In this case, the steam… Read the rest “Science Art: Hero’s Steam Turbine, 1903”
National Geographic reports on a study that has found nicotine-based insecticides – the world’s most widely used pesticides – act like appetite suppressants for … Read the rest “Common insectides have lowered songbird populations – they eat a couple seeds and lose weight.”
Or so PopSci would have you believe. That’s their take on behaviorist Kristyn Vitale’s Oregon State University study of the bonding styles of cats:
… Read the rest “Your cat really does love you.”Both babies and dogs display
New Scientist has the less-than-cheerful discovery that a plastic-based teabag will release *billions* of microplastic particles as it steeps:
… Read the rest “Microplastics in your tea, from the teabag.”A Canadian team found that steeping a
An image from an 1868 book, On the Disposition of Iron in Variegated Strata, which was the subject of a collection in the Public Domain Review.
The geometry of this geology is marvelous. I … Read the rest “Science Art: Lower Bagshot Clays, Nr. Wareham, 1868”
Science News shares a small but disturbing Belgian study that found solid particles of air pollutants around developing babies in the womb:
… Read the rest “Air pollution can leave soot inside pregnant mothers’ placentas.”Samples of placenta collected after women in
Growing Produce has a story that strikes me as super weird, about the first-ever commercial fungicide designed to be carried onto crops by bees:
… Read the rest “EPA approves a fungicide distributed *by bees*.”The EPA has recently approved Bee Vectoring
TW, as they say.
New Scientist has some hard numbers on some difficult truths, offering data on just how many women lost their virginity in a way that they considered “not voluntary”… Read the rest “CDC report: One in 16 US women were forced into having sex for the first time”
A secret body around our visible body, from the 1600s. A subtle anatomy. Planetary correspondences. This is where we get the idea of organ systems from, really. Trying … Read the rest “Science Art: From Theosophia Practica, by Johann Georg Gichtel, 1696”
Space.com has photos and background on B333, an expandable and expansive zero-gravity habitat for the next generation of space explorers. Bottom line is it’s pretty big:
… Read the rest “Billionaire Bigelow’s Big Balloon – inflatable space station is open for visitors.”The space
LA Times plunges into a chemical and artistic riddle – how can we restore fading Day-Glo paintings when the formula for Saturn Yellow remains a trade secret?:
… Read the rest “I don’t know, how *do* you make Saturn Yellow?”[Conservator Kamila]
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