Drones for archaeology
PhysOrg has more on using drones… not just to find priceless historical sites, but to protect them from looters:
… Read the rest “Drones for archaeology”With aerial photographs taken by a homemade drone, researchers are
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 moreScience Art: Detail from Plate LXVIII from British oology, c. 1835
That’s Anthus aquaticus and Anthus pratensis… the rock lark up top, and the tit lark at the bottom. Stop laughing, you in the back.
There are more lark eggs where these came from… Read the rest “Science Art: Detail from Plate LXVIII from British oology, c. 1835”
Robot feet that don’t need batteries.
Nature studies the beauty of mechanical advantage… in exoskeleton boots that do what feet do just a little bit better, faster, stronger:
… Read the rest “Robot feet that don’t need batteries.”People walking in the boots expend 7% less
Go, little Mars drone! Fly! FLY!
The Atlantic has a heartwarming story about the little flying robot that could (if only we’d let it)… a plucky little space-drone named Morpheus:
… Read the rest “Go, little Mars drone! Fly! FLY!”While it may never fly in space
A new hybrid super-termite… made in Florida.
PopSci reports on the PLOS One study on what happens when two invasive exotic species combine forces:
… Read the rest “A new hybrid super-termite… made in Florida.”The two termite species, which originated in separate areas of Asia, spread across
Has your head ever exploded? (Or *sounded* like it?)
Science Daily peeks into the weird world of Exploding Head Syndrome, a surprisingly common condition in which young people are suddenly awoken by an ear-splitting boom:
… Read the rest “Has your head ever exploded? (Or *sounded* like it?)”Brian Sharpless,
Science Art: Plate XII. An engine of great service to bore elms or other trees to make pipes to conveigh water, and for other uses, 1701
An illustration from New and rare inventions of water-works; shewing the easiest ways to raise water higher than the spring. By which invention, the perpetual motion … Read the rest “Science Art: Plate XII. An engine of great service to bore elms or other trees to make pipes to conveigh water, and for other uses, 1701”
So, one of the most common household chemicals is killing you. Surprise!
Nature analyzes the new World Health Organization (WHO) determination that Roundup weedkiller causes cancer:
… Read the rest “So, one of the most common household chemicals is killing you. Surprise!”The cancer-research arm of the World Health Organization last week announced
Here’s a hydrogen-fueled train.
Science Alert reports on a new train in China – not a design, an actual vehicle – that runs on hydrogen and leaves water for exhaust:
… Read the rest “Here’s a hydrogen-fueled train.”Manufactured by the Sifang Company, which
SONG: The Waves Around the Women
SONG: “The Waves Around the Women.”
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SOURCE: Based on “Scientists have discovered nature’s newest strongest material“, Washington Post, 18… Read the rest “SONG: The Waves Around the Women”
Science Art: NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft as it passes Pluto and Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, in July 2015, by NASA/JHU APL/SwRI/Steve Gribben.
This is happening now. This summer.
A little flying robot is going to Pluto, the planet that wasn’t a planet, then it sort of was again.
From the NASA New Horizons page… Read the rest “Science Art: NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft as it passes Pluto and Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, in July 2015, by NASA/JHU APL/SwRI/Steve Gribben.”
Compassion pills.
Science Daily reports on UC Berkeley research into a chemical that makes you a nicer person:
… Read the rest “Compassion pills.”A new study by UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco researchers finds that giving a drug that changes
A new dawn of humankind
A bit of a jawbone (and a bit of computer modeling) has given us a long-awaited glimpse of our new oldest ancestor:
… Read the rest “A new dawn of humankind”On 29 January 2013, scientists combing a stretch of northeastern Ethiopia’s
That brain-controlling cat parasite? We’ve figured out how it works….
Science Daily plunges into the fun, fun research into how toxoplasmosis pulls your strings:
… Read the rest “That brain-controlling cat parasite? We’ve figured out how it works….”The parasite is Toxoplasma gondii, which has infected an estimated one in four Americans and
A new memory will replace a similar memory: the anatomy of forgetting
BBC looks into our brains, watching scans that show how one memory can literally replace a different, but similar one:
… Read the rest “A new memory will replace a similar memory: the anatomy of forgetting”“People are used to thinking of forgetting as something passive,”