This is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreThis is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wiki…
Read moreThis is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically describe…
Read moreThis is a slide from the magic lantern shows of Clement Lindley Wragge, a popularizer of astronomy, a meteorolo…
Read moreSONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “These roaches for…
Read moreReally, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1.
“CNSA” is…
Read moreScience Daily finds a correlation between national satisfaction and participation in the Eurovision song contest. Even if your country loses, you and your neighbors will be happier than… Read the rest “Countries in the Eurovision contest are happier overall.”
Nature reports on a water filter based on computer pioneer Alan Turing’s only biology paper that appears to clean salt out of water three times better than conventional filters: … Read the rest “Alan Turing’s idea makes water three times cleaner.”
MIT News reports on a study that turns back the clock, at least as far as intestinal cells are concerned. Mice who’ve done without food for 24 hours alter their metabolisms in such a … Read the rest “Fasting rejuvenates aging stem cells.”
Where plants come from. (And hay fever.) These are as seen through a pretty powerful microscope – magnified 500 times – and drawn by a German pharmacist and chemist living in… Read the rest “Science Art: Tab X from Ueber den Pollen by Carl Julius Fritzsche, 1837.”
Science News looks at a strange structure of matter (one we’ve discussed on here in the past) that regularly repeats itself like a crystal… but the repeated structure is in … Read the rest “Two new kinds of time crystals.”
Scientific American steps into the fast lane, unexpectedly, on the island of Redonda. People wiped out the local (invasive) populations of rats and goats, and instead of taking centuries… Read the rest “Island lizards are evolving – in one year’s time.”
I’m not sure how new this science really is – it’s pigs, by the way, not people, in case you were worried – but The Guardian is excited at the prospect of scientists… Read the rest “Disembodied brains kept alive for 36 hours.”
Click to embiggen vastly. You can see the astronauts’ faces!
“Here am I floating in a tin can,” indeed.
Here’s how much room some of the first humans in space –… Read the rest “Science Art: NASA spacecraft comparison, by D. Meltzer.”
I mean, who wouldn’t, really? Science looks back at evidence that Stone Age people traveled to Naxos, Crete, and other islands across the sun-kissed Med:
… Read the rest “Neanderthals cruised the Mediterranean”A decade ago, when excavators
SONG: “At 6 A.M.”.
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SOURCE: Nature, 17 Apr 2018, “Medicine’s secret ingredient — it’s in the timing”, as used in the post “Chronotherapy… Read the rest “SONG: At 6 A.M.”
Mmm. Switches. Communication.
The Guardian has some sweet potato evolutionary research that unintentionally drives a wedge in the idea that the presence of the humble yam in both places indicates that prehistoric Polynesian… Read the rest “Sigh. Maybe a sweet potato *doesn’t* mean that prehistoric Polynesians visited South America after all.”
Nature explores the data being gathered about the surprising significance of time-of-day to effective medical treatment:
… Read the rest “Chronotherapy is the discipline of giving medicine according to your body clock.”More than four decades of studies describe how accounting for
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NASA wants you to know they’re pretty handy here on Earth, too. This here shows a way to make trains and other things that use big, strong bearings safer, by using tricks… Read the rest “Science Art: Bearing Fault Detector, 1975”
The Guardian looks at one of the less discussed elements of climate change – with a once-dependable ocean current slowing, slowing, slowing down in a way that could change more than… Read the rest “The Gulf Stream is weaker than it’s been for 1,600 years.”
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