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.)
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Read moreReally, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1.
“CNSA” is…
Read moreScience Daily breaks the news that telepathy – brain communication through machines – is not only possible, but scientists have already done it across 5,000 miles:
… Read the rest “Brain-to-brain communication via EEG over the internet.”“We
The Associated Press (through the Wall Street Journal and other outlets) has been sharing the discovery of the artwork that changes the way we think about Neanderthals… and the way… Read the rest “Neanderthals made art. Like we do.”
The Guardian brings a small tragedy happening a long, long way away vividly home with 10 well-chosen words: Russia confirms death of five geckos on space sex mission:
… Read the rest “Best headline contender: “Russia confirms death of five geckos on space sex mission””The federal space agency
ScienceDaily has more on a Northwestern University experiment using transcranial magnetic stimulation to improve memory:
… Read the rest “Magnets zap memories into brains.”The discovery opens a new field of possibilities for treating
This is a story of explosive growth, as told by the USGS Landsat satellite, and recorded in the Earth Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center “Image… Read the rest “Science Art: Urban Expansion of Shenyang, China, 2014.”
You might have heard, like many Discovery News readers, of the weird moving rocks of Death Valley – the ones with the long, curving trails behind them. No one’s ever seen how … Read the rest “Moving rocks caught on camera.”
Young blood. New Scientist sketches out the future of rejuvenation with experiments based on using young blood to keep old brains lively:
… Read the rest “Vampire science: a red fountain of youth for Alzheimer’s patients.”Disregarding vampire legends, the idea of refreshing
The National (of the UAE) reports on radical new ways to deal with climate change… from the dawn of civilization:
… Read the rest “Climate change and social upheaval, the last time around…4,000 years ago.”The Bronze Age transition from the Umm An Nar (2700 to 2000 BC) to the
A planetary self-portrait, apparently from Wonderland of Science, a book published in the 1930s.
SONG: “Rosetta.” (To download: https://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/choons/grant-Rosetta2.mp3 )
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The Atlantic, the Pacific… are sinks. Heat sinks. So says Scientific American, explaining that temperatures haven’t risen as sharply as they could have (YET) because the… Read the rest “Oceans are hiding global warming… for now.”
The Atlantic gives hope to the new generation of WebMD obsessives with a fascinating tale of an athlete who used the internet to figure out what was *really* going on in her malfunctioning… Read the rest “Triathlete uses internet to defeat her rare genetic disease”
A prehistoric worm with claws, says Live Science, has rewritten the origin story of crabs, spiders and mosquitos:
… Read the rest “Clawed worm rewrites evolutionary history.”According to a new study of the creatures’ odd claws, Hallucigenia
Science Daily takes us humans out of the driver’s seat and puts the germs inside us in charge of the menu tonight:
… Read the rest “Gut bacteria choose what you eat.”In an article published this week in the journal BioEssays, researchers
Neomatica explains how British and Australian researchers are figuring out why HIV patients show an unusual resistance to multiple sclerosis and its symptoms. It may be that MS is caused… Read the rest “HIV therapy might work on MS, too.”
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