Yes, Virginia, there is such a thing as a snipe. Lots of kinds of snipe, in fact.
And snipe hunting was a real thing, too.
This illustration is of a Wilson’s snipe, and it comes from A history… Read the rest “Science Art: Wilson’s Snipe, by W.I. Beecroft, 1912”
And her dad’s a Minnesota Vikings fan, too. Sweden’s The Local reports on young Saga Vanecek, whose family moved from Minneapolis to Sweden to get in touch with their roots…… Read the rest “A hero emerges: 8-year-old girl *named Saga* pulls ancient Viking sword from Swedish lake.”
NSF Science 360 News gazes at a new, foamy polymer paint that stays so cool in the sunlight, it could be used to replace air conditioning:
… Read the rest “Cool paint. Literally.”An alternative to these energy-intensive cooling
Science News uses LIDAR mapping to reveal an ancient Maya empire that wasn’t so much slash-and-burn and smash-and-grab as they were smart farmers and wide-ranging communicators… Read the rest “Lasers reveal ancient Maya as well-connected, environmentally conscious.”
The Johns Hopkins Hub shares the news that their medical school researchers are advocating, in the October issue of Neuropharmacology, that psilocybin mushrooms be taken out of the same… Read the rest “Johns Hopkins researchers recommend taking magic mushrooms off Schedule I.”
This might be the greatest contribution gardening ever made to space travel.
In the middle of World War II, engineers were trying to figure out how to make pressurized suits… Read the rest “Science Art: The Goodrich XH-5 Tomato-Worm Suit”
The Guardian pulls back the veil – using fossilized cholesterol, of all things – on what could be the world’s oldest animal – an oval-shaped creature that lived… Read the rest “The oldest animal.”
Space.com makes an announcement that sounds… more fun than usual. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency landed two rovers that hop (like fleas? like springtails? like bunnies?)… Read the rest “Japan landed two bouncing rovers on an asteroid.”
Electrical history from PW Lanier and the Minneapolis Institute of Art:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Tesla Coil: high-frequency discharge demonstrator, Welch Scientific Company, 1931”This tabletop Tesla coil was likely made for science classes, producing long, impressive sparks
It’s an iconic, stress-inducing sound – think about medical dramas or crime thrillers set in hospitals. And now, we bring the beep home, some of us. Beep. Beep. Beep. Unceasing.… Read the rest “Composing the “beep” of the medical monitor.”
Nature asks the question raised by University of Florida astronomers: how did Roddenberry know there’d be a hot, heavy, but Earth-like planet orbiting 40 Eridani?:
… Read the rest “Looks like real-life astronomers found Spock’s home planet right where it was supposed to be.”Bo Ma at the University
Popular Science shows what it takes to get data sometimes – when the enormous marine reptile you affixed your tracking equipment to carries on migrating right into a major hurricane… Read the rest “Tracking a leatherback turtle through Hurricane Florence”
Not just a kangaroo, and not just a nail-tailed kangaroo. A lunated nail-tailed kangaroo. And a cute one, too. From John Gould’s The Mammals of Australia, 1863. … Read the rest “Science Art: Lunated Nail-Tailed Kangaroo, 1863”
Science News goes deeper into a rock that bears a cross-hatch pattern made 73,000 years ago in a South African cave:
… Read the rest “The world’s oldest drawing was made with a red ocher crayon.”The discovery “helps round out the argument that Homo sapiens [at Blombos
The Guardian unveils the bonnethead as the first confirmed omnivorous shark species:
… Read the rest “First shark species confirmed to eat everything – even veggies.”Scientists at the University of California in Irvine, and Florida International University in Miami,
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