Creating a new kind of light
Science Daily looks at an “optical state” – a form of light that can allow engineers to create super-fast quantum computers powered by photons:
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Science Art: Fowler - Coregonus Nelsonii Bean.
This is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreScience Art: Paraboloide Circular 02, by Rodrigo Argenton
This is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wiki…
Read moreScience Art: Azimuth and Altitude Instrument, c. 1876
This is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically describe…
Read moreScience Art: Solar Explosions, G79, by Clement Lindley Wragge.
This 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
SONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “These roaches for…
Read moreScience Art: Mars - Cloudy North Polar Cap, by Andrea Luck
Really, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1.
“CNSA” is…
Read moreScientists reverse Alzheimer’s (in mice).
Science Daily reports on Rockefeller University researchers who have undone the damage of Alzheimer’s Disease in mice by gradually depleting levels of a particular brain enzyme:… Read the rest “Scientists reverse Alzheimer’s (in mice).”
Science Art: What is that green gunk?, USGS/NASA, 2 Nov 2017
Click to embiggenThe answer, from the US Geological Survey’s Facebook page, is an algal bloom in Lake Erie, as photographed by Landsat:
… Read the rest “Science Art: What is that green gunk?, USGS/NASA, 2 Nov 2017”In late September, Earth-observing satellites
Dim lights might make us less bright.
Science Daily turns the lights up on Michigan State University neurological research showing sitting in a darkened room can hurt the brain’s ability to remember and learn:
… Read the rest “Dim lights might make us less bright.”The researchers
Making wood that’s stronger than steel
Nature has a new process for turning trees into a building material that’s tougher than girders or automobile frames:
… Read the rest “Making wood that’s stronger than steel”“It’s a new class of materials with great potential,” says Li
Science Art: V alambicchi, from Acta Eruditorum, 1740.
Chinese tomb with sewer security.
Xinhuanet reports on an ancient civil engineering project – a tomb from 1,000 years ago that has an elaborate system to keep water – and tomb robbers – out:
… Read the rest “Chinese tomb with sewer security.”The excavation
Stonehenge architects slept here.
The Guardian reports on a new discovery shedding light on the ancient mystery of Stonehenge – by showing us where the megalithic architects lived – and made their massive plans… Read the rest “Stonehenge architects slept here.”
Science Art: 2014 Evolutionary Biology – Austrian 25 Euro, designed by Helmut Andexlinger.
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Money! Monkey money!
This is some currency art done in niobium and silver, honoring the discipline of evolutionary biology. I don’t think it has any *actual* DNA… Read the rest “Science Art: 2014 Evolutionary Biology – Austrian 25 Euro, designed by Helmut Andexlinger.”
Here’s what killed all those antelopes on the steppes. It’s warmer now.
Science News gets the answers on what suddenly killed 200,000 saiga antelopes in 2015:
… Read the rest “Here’s what killed all those antelopes on the steppes. It’s warmer now.”“If you come at dawn and dusk, it’s magical,” says E.J. Milner-Gulland, a conservation biologist
Killer whales speak human. A little.
Of course. Of course. The Guardian reveals that orcas can use human speech when it suits them:
… Read the rest “Killer whales speak human. A little.”New research reveals that orcas are able to imitate human speech, in some cases at the first attempt,
Science Art: Expedition 54 flight engineer Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), by NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepi, Dec. 17, 2017.
More astronaut optimism, less everything else.
From the NASA Image HQ Flickr account:
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Riots spread like viruses spread like “fake news.”
The American Council on Health and Social Science looks at the epidemiology of human behavior – and things we want to believe – by finding what riots, flu and “fake news”… Read the rest “Riots spread like viruses spread like “fake news.””
Mystery DNA has something to do with our brains.
Scientific American brings us a baby step closer to understanding what a bunch of strange DNA – stuff that doesn’t directly shape our cells – shared by all vertebrates… Read the rest “Mystery DNA has something to do with our brains.”