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 moreI don’t normally go to Business Insider for science news, but they’ve actually got a pretty good rundown of recent research into the problems with taking smart phones to bed… Read the rest “Screen light too bright, can’t get to sleep at night (now, eyes won’t focus right).”
SpaceNews.com has more on the “golf-club bag” we’re devising for space station return deliveries:
… Read the rest “Little space package brings stuff home from the ISS, no astronauts required.”The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), the
Laboratory Equipment discusses research that’s found a low-carb, high-fat diet reduces seizures in hard-to-treat epilepsy:
… Read the rest “Atkins Diet Eases Epilepsy”“We need new treatments for the 35 percent of people
You know it’s real when there’s money involved. Well, real-ish. New Scientist has more on the Google acquisition of DeepMind Technologies and their Neural Turing Machine… Read the rest “Self-programming computers (little fake brains) fuel new start-up.”
Science Daily has some cheerful news from Columbia University Medical Center neuroscience researchers, who’ve found that cocoa fights age-related memory decline:
… Read the rest “Hot cocoa helps you remember.”Previous
This was the insignia of the astronauts who built the ISS. Or a big part of it, anyway.
STS 110 was the name of the mission, the 110th flight of the Space Shuttle, or Space Transportation System.… Read the rest “Science Art: STS 110 Insignia, NASA”
SONG: “Forget.”
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Manipulating memory with light: Scientists erase specific memories in mice“, Science Daily, 9 October 2014,… Read the rest “SONG: “Forget” by grant.”
Science Daily has more dietary recommendations for resetting your body’s clock:
… Read the rest “Working nights? Lay off the spinach and liver.”Disrupted circadian clocks, researchers believe, are the reason that shift workers experience
Nature has more on how the veterinary tranquilizer-slash-rave drug can reverse “anhedonia” (the inability to feel happy) for 14 days – long enough to bust sufferers… Read the rest “Ketamine – “special K” – can break treatment-resistant depression.”
Science Daily discusses UC Davis researchers who are using light to edit out specific memories:
… Read the rest “We can un-remember for you, wholesale. (With light.)”Optogenetics, pioneered by Karl Diesseroth at Stanford University, is a new technique
This is a celestial event recorded beautifully in E. Weiß’s Bilderatlas der Sternenwelt, the “Picture-Atlas of the Star-World”. I’m not sure, but I think that’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Leonid Meteor Storm, as seen over North America on the night of November 12-13, 1833 ”
Laboratory Equipment sings the praises of the latest soldiers keeping our harbors safe from attack – a
secret army of (cheap) robot bowling balls:
… Read the rest “Little swimming bowling balls, ever-faithful guardians….”Originally designed to look for
Science Daily reveals some interesting (and counter-intuitive) findings following the world’s largest medical study of human consciousness at time of death:
… Read the rest “Consciousness after death – as long as you’re not on sedatives.”The results of a
Nature paints a more vivid picture of climate change – and the related changes in ocean currents – by retracing the paths of prehistoric icebergs in the years when the oceans… Read the rest “When icebergs floated off Key West…”
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