The covid pandemic rewired teens’ brains
I mean, parents already kinda know this, but now Translational Psychiatry has studied (and is continuing to study) a group of teens from before the […]
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Science Art: Poissons (B), by Adolphe Millot .
The fish, the fishes of the world, including at least one extinct fish (#21, Ceratodus, the coelacanth-looking one down there on the bottom left). There […]
DNA reveals Africans in medieval England.
Anthropology.net looks at two 7th-century graves from different parts of England — Kent and Dorset — that prove African-descended people were living in England practically […]
Sea star killer found. Now what?
bioGraphic celebrates the discovery, at long last, of the phenomenon behind a mysterious wave of rather horrific sea star deaths on America’s Pacific Coast. Now, […]
Science Art: Long-Tsing-Yu or Les Yeux des Dragon
These are some of the first goldfish ever seen in Europe. The image (which I found in a great Public Domain Review article) came from […]
Depression is a form of jet lag.
Or maybe vice versa. At any rate, the University of Sydney has published findings that demonstrate depression is physiologically really close to jet lag, and […]
Science Art: First missile launched at Cape Canaveral, July 24, 1950.
A photo from the San Diego Air and Space Museum’s collection of Images from NASA/Cape Canaveral. Here are a couple of quotes from a recent […]
Where the dark matter hides.
Caltech says that, thanks to an NSF grant, they’ve found where all the dark matter has been hiding. That’s up to 50 percent of matter […]
Massive study finds the lifestyle to keep your brain young.
NPR reports on a study of 2,100 ordinary, not super fit people in their 60s and 70s who spent two years on an intensive regimen […]
Dragon? Or weasel?
OK, not weasel but marten – which is close enough. Asahi Shimbun writes on the identity of a dragon mummy known as a Koryu held […]
Science Art: A four stage sequential game with a foresight bound, Marco Mantovani
This is a game theory diagram from the paper, “Limited backward induction: foresight and behavior in sequential games,” though I found it on Wikimedia Commons. […]
Science Art: A New Hummingbird From Ecuador, 1926
From the pages of the November-December 1926 issue of Natural History magazine (found on archive.org) flies “The Aethereal Sylph (Cyanolesbia coelestis aetherius Chapman)”. The blue… […]
Salt Typhoon (probably) has peeked into all sorts of U.S. gov’t computers.
IT Pro echoes the warning of cybersecurity professionals that, since the Pentagon reported on China’s Salt Typhoon group broaching a U.S. National Guard system, we […]
A self-healing rechargeable battery made of cheap elements.
Ars Technica reports on a new sort of cathode that’s made of materials that are abundant (therefore cheap), that store electrons and let them move […]
Science Art: The “Rotterdam Ship” was one of the earliest submarines…, 1934
This image is actually much older than 1934; it’s just that that is when William Beebe published it (courtesy of the New York Public Library) […]