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Science Art: Drawing of proposed Pig Capsule, Little Joe first shot

30 December 2018 grant 0

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NASA serves the ham in a tray.

“Little Joe” was a test rocket named for a kind of craps roll – because getting the rocket together was as unlikely as having… Read the rest “Science Art: Drawing of proposed Pig Capsule, Little Joe first shot”

Fuzzy little pterosaur.

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Science Daily makes the leather-winged terrors of the Jurassic seem downright cuddly with research that indicates pterosaurs might, in fact, have been soft and cuddly:

Researchers led

… Read the rest “Fuzzy little pterosaur.”
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Science Art: Tiny planets….

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Something appropriate for the season and, maybe, for Comet Wirtanen… from nemfrog:

Tiny planets, visitors from other worlds, become white-hot and are seen as

… Read the rest “Science Art: Tiny planets….”

New Years with Ultima Thule – that’s far out.

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Nature reports on the New Horizon space probe’s date for New Years – with Ultima Thule (formally, 2014 MU69), the most distant object visited by one of our spacecraft:

MU69

… Read the rest “New Years with Ultima Thule – that’s far out.”

MIT shrinks objects to the nano-scale.

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MIT researchers have devised a technique to create a solid, 3D structure and then reduce it to one-thousandth its original volume:

“It’s a way of putting nearly any kind of material into

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Science Art: Transition of straight Nautiloidea into typical Nautilus, 1972

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Evolution took a winding path with the nautilus. They curled, over generations, into a spiral.

In order, we’re looking at: Orthoceras, Cyrtoceras, Gyroceras… Read the rest “Science Art: Transition of straight Nautiloidea into typical Nautilus, 1972”

Alzheimer’s can be transmitted person-to-person. (Surgically, that is.)

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Nature discusses how the proteins that cause havoc in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients can be transmitted from person to person:

They stress that their research does not suggest

… Read the rest “Alzheimer’s can be transmitted person-to-person. (Surgically, that is.)”

Seattle schools prove later waking makes students more productive.

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NPR reports on a year-long, city-wide study that proved one of those obvious things that for some reason we never act on: Teenagers do a heck of a lot better if you just let them stay up late and… Read the rest “Seattle schools prove later waking makes students more productive.”

We now know what killed everything in Earth’s worst mass-extinction event.

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Science Alert lets us know that oceanographers have determined that the event that killed 70 percent of all land species and 96 percent of all marine species (not individuals – but… Read the rest “We now know what killed everything in Earth’s worst mass-extinction event.”

Color-changing, warm-blooded ichthyosaurs.

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Earth Archives talks about a recent fossil discovery that changes the way we picture marine life in the age of dinosaurs:

An incredible new specimen of the Early Jurassic genus Stenopterygius

… Read the rest “Color-changing, warm-blooded ichthyosaurs.”
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Science Art: Storage and Launching of A.4. Rocket Projectile, 1940s.

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This is how Allied intelligence pictured German V2 rockets being used during World War II. A decade and a half later, this was how we put things (and, eventually, people)… Read the rest “Science Art: Storage and Launching of A.4. Rocket Projectile, 1940s.”

She might’ve been Plague Victim Zero.

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Science News unearths the 5,000-year-old remains of a Scandinavian woman who seems to have been the oldest known victim of the Black Death:

DNA extracted from the woman’s teeth comes from

… Read the rest “She might’ve been Plague Victim Zero.”

Chickens with Fitbits. Future of farming.

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Digital Trends looks at how wearable devices could revolutionize farming and keep chickens healthier:

Sitting neatly between these two size extremes is a new project coming out of the

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There’s an easy fix for gerrymandering, if Congress can count two decimal places.

4 December 2018 grant 0

In Forbes, Johns Hopkins Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Biostatistics Steven Salzberg has put forward a modest mathematical proposal to solve some of our… Read the rest “There’s an easy fix for gerrymandering, if Congress can count two decimal places.”

It’s not quite “Please open the podbay doors, HAL,” but almost….

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Buzzfeed reports on an unexpected personality clash with an AI on the International Space Station – an incident that could affect how similar synthetic companions are used on missions… Read the rest “It’s not quite “Please open the podbay doors, HAL,” but almost….”

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