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 moreNPR goes, ahem, under the covers to trace the brain chemistry of sleep:
… Read the rest “Here’s why sleep affects your memory (and how you can change it).”“One of the most profound effects of a night of sleep is the improvement in our ability to remember things,”
This is from Salon, so not exactly science reportage here, but still:
… Read the rest “Post-Script: The House just passed a bill barring scientists from advising the EPA on their own research.”In what might be the most ridiculous aspect of the whole thing, the bill forbids scientific experts from participating
Scientific American (via Nature) has more about Rush Holt’s eight-term Congressional career, and his new gig as CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)… Read the rest ““There are some real frustrations.” – Rocket scientist & Representative Rush Holt, on how science works in Congress.”
CBC has more on a study that finds kids adopted from China in infancy still have native speakers’ brain responses to spoken Chinese – even if they can’t understand it… Read the rest “Adoptees’ “lost language” is still wired into their brains.”
Sorry, was that overdramatic? Science Daily is calmer in reporting that University of California researchers have found that Triclosan, the stuff that makes antibacterial soap work,… Read the rest “Antimicrobial soap might be killing you.”
This is a strange bug from PHIL, the CDC’s Public Health Image Library. Not the kind of bug the CDC usually deals with… it’s an unidentified insect found,… Read the rest “Science Art: #11268 (Small, Unidentified Insect On the Exoskeletal Surface Of A Dragonfly)”
Nature tries not to be *too* foreboding about the dark times ahead for Philae:
… Read the rest “A shadow falls across Comet 67P and the Philae lander….”The Philae lander’s drill is now working, but the craft’s batteries — designed to power just 2.5
Instead of following the usual format today (find story, write lead, post an excerpt), I thought I’d do something a little different. The big story this week is about Philae, the little… Read the rest “Rosetta: What’s the big deal?”
Nature takes a second look at the neurology of feeling a presence right next to you:
… Read the rest “Don’t turn around. He’s standing right behind you.”Some people with relatively rare types of brain injury also experience this ‘feeling of a presence’. A
Medium takes a long look at the Mars One company, which has assembled 200,000 volunteers for a Mars mission that doesn’t yet exist:
… Read the rest “Red Planet dreams: what it takes to sign up for a one-way mission….”Despite not being a space-faring agency, it claims
IFL Science takes another look (courtesy of ISI Foundation researchers) at magic mushroom trips, and finds some surprises in what exactly psilocybin mushrooms do to your brain:
… Read the rest “No, *this* is your brain on drugs. All interconnected….”
Quoting here from Oudemans’ book:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Hydrarchos Sillimanni, from The great sea-serpent, by A. C. Oudemans, 1892.”In 1845 Dr. Albert C. Koch, “exhibited a large skeleton of a fossil animal, under the name of Hydrarchos Sillimanni
New Scientist has more on WWI germ that can survive all kinds of modern medicines:
… Read the rest “Penicillin-resistant germ found – from more than a decade before penicillin was discovered.”Ernest Cable was a British soldier who died in 1915 from dysentery caught in the trenches of northern France
Yes, New Scientist comes up with another headline you just can’t beat:
… Read the rest ““Amaze balls: Testicles site of most diverse proteins””Congratulations testicles, you make more unique proteins than any other tissue in the body.
The proteins in
Science Daily reports on a bug that’ll be keeping some public health officials up nights:
… Read the rest “Vaccine-resistant polio discovered. Yeah, almost a nightmare scenario.”The global initiative to eradicate poliomyelitis through routine vaccination has helped
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