The Independent puzzles over a biological riddle – a strange microbe that doesn’t need oxygen or sunlight to get by. Instead, it thrives deep underground living off fool’s… Read the rest “What breathes sulfur, eats fool’s gold and could show us where life came from?”
Nature mourns the apparent loss of India’s first lunar lander, which stopped transmitting as it descended to the Moon’s south pole:
… Read the rest “India’s moon lander went silent minutes before landing.”Mission control at the Indian Space Research
Well, I made it through Dorian just fine this week. Some islands less than 100 miles to the east didn’t.
This is not that Category 5 storm. This was apparently uploaded… Read the rest “Science Art: Sunset in the Eye of a Hurricane”
Science reveals the Atlantis-like story of Greater Adria, a continent the size of Greenland that vanished 140 million years ago, not under the sea but below the slowly moving continent … Read the rest “Geologists explore a lost continent hidden under Southern Europe.”
Nature has a fascinating piece of research (with great graphics, so please click through) on how exactly public opinions can be molded by a few strategically placed bots on a social media… Read the rest “How a social network can be gerrymandered – and how that can affect our decision-making (and real-life voting).”
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It’s not a flying fish, but something called a “sapphirine gurnard,” which is unusual not because it flies, but because it walks along the bottom using… Read the rest “Science Art: Trigla Hirundo, Lin., from Gemeinnüzzige Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs (A Natural History of the Animal Kingdom)”
Science News describes how the MASCOT asteroid lander has found the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu oddly devoid of dust:
… Read the rest “A remarkably tidy asteroid.”The asteroid, thought to have formed from the breakup of a larger body
The Conversation looks at a way that Fatemeh Torabi Asr, a computational linguistics researcher at Simon Fraser University, has devised to use computers to instantaneously identify … Read the rest “An algorithm to sniff out fake news, linguistically.”
Sure, I listen to an episode of Omnibus! here and there, and the latest was on the oddly half-forgotten project that was Biosphere 2.
I mainly remember Biosphere 2 as the … Read the rest “Science Art: Biosphere_2_-_panoramio_(4) by Qygen, 19 Aug 2003.”
Science News shares results from an English MRI experiment that has mapped, for the first time, how exactly our brain takes a symbol, like a letter, and converts it into the thought of a spoken… Read the rest “We caught a glimpse of a symbol becoming an idea in the brain.”
CNN is among the news outlets covering a hopeful story (as the rain forests burn), that the Florida Aquarium in Tampa has found a way to get coral to reproduce – and potentially repopulate… Read the rest “New hope for coral reefs is sprouting at Florida Aquarium”
The internet’s “Bad Astronomer” takes to SyFy.com to explain to Elon Musk and everybody else why detonating nuclear bombs on the Martian ice caps would really not be… Read the rest “Phil Plait explains why nuking Mars is a bad idea.”
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A beetle of character. From Wikimedia Commons.
Science News looks at high-speed photo research that reveals how a gall midge larva can leap up to 36 times its body length without any legs:
… Read the rest “How larvae leap long with no legs”In nature, something has to go wrong for this to
Nature shares the sad fact that “freshwater megafish” – in other words, the really big ones, the 60-pounders out there in the rivers and lakes – are in the middle… Read the rest “Fishing ecology: the big ones are getting away.”
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