Barbados is smothering under a blanket of seaweed. That’s the word from Hakai Magazine, which is studying a sudden, lethal growth in sargassum that seems to be choking off the islands… Read the rest “A sea of sargasso swamps the Eastern Caribbean”
No, this isn’t a heart-wrenching sequel to The Little Prince. It’s a report in Nature on a baffling illness striking down some of Africa’s most distinctive trees:
… Read the rest “The baobabs are dying.”In
Science News tries to get to the bottom of the weird symptoms that American diplomatic workers experienced in China and Cuba recently… and can’t. A team writing in JAMA found… Read the rest “About those sonic weapon attacks on American embassies….”
Wilhelm Ritter von Haidinger was an Austrian mineralogist who during his career helped mining engineers dig better mines and looked at rocks that looked like other rocks… Read the rest “Science Art: Fall des Meteors am 9 Juni 1866, by Wilhelm Ritter von Haidinger”
Science Daily has (rather densely written) research showing how specific drugs could not only stop dementia but reverse its effects:
… Read the rest “Researchers reverse dementia.”A lack of knowledge about cellular pathways critical
Science News looks back at last year’s dramatic solar eclipse and shows us why it was a big deal research-wise, too:
… Read the rest “What the last eclipse taught us.”While thousands of eclipse watchers gathered across the country
As somebody who only recently started wearing glasses only sometimes, I shouldn’t really celebrate this, but – The Guardian has Scottish research that shows a genetic link… Read the rest “DNA research shows smart people really do wear glasses.”
Embryonic television. I like how this device has an almost Lovecraftian vibe, as if sending moving pictures was a thing that involved mystical processes. What’s in the box, man? … Read the rest “Science Art: Marconi Photo-Cell for Transmitter from Television Optics, 1938.”
Scientific American has some unpleasant statistics emerging from a study of how many people have really died in Puerto Rico in the wake of last year’s second massive hurricane:
… Read the rest “Researchers: The death toll from Hurricane Maria is 72 times higher than the official figure.”Are
The Guardian reveals that De Beers, the monolithic diamond firm (which has made artificial scarcity its business model for the better part of a century – actually posting guards … Read the rest “De Beers sells synthetic diamonds.”
The New Yorker leaves their modern city to plunge into a genuine wilderness on an expedition into La Mosquitia, a long-abandoned settlement in the jungles of eastern Honduras – where… Read the rest “Exploring a Lost World”
What’s inside a Ukranian volcano. Or most volcanoes, wherever the are. From a Ukranian encyclopedia for Ukrainian miners (ISBN 966-7804-14-3).
Nature reports on a new way to turn ship exhaust into an energy source. Dr. Jun Kang at the Korea Maritime and Ocean University in South Korea has devised a way to capture soot from diesel engines… Read the rest “Ship-exhaust power: making batteries from soot.”
Just in case you have to drive one of these, now you know where the controls are.
I like that there’s a dial labeled “Time To Go.”
Found at the NASA Johnson… Read the rest “Science Art: Mercury Spacecraft Main Instrument Panel, 1959.”
Science Daily looks at a form of cellulose – that is, like, wood, you know? – that’s been remade at the nano-level to be stronger than dragline spider silk:
… Read the rest “Bio-material stronger than steel… and spider silk.”The team headed
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