This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science …
Read moreThere’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. B…
Read moreI found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is a…
Read moreSONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
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SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack …
Read moreThis 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 moreArs Technica reports on a rocket launch from Jeff Bezos’ space company – the first in 15 months, after an engine failure destroyed a New Shepherd rocket. The new New Shepherd… Read the rest “Blue Origin is back in the space business.”
Harvard genetic researchers have struck on a novel way to restore hearing loss from damage and old age … with gene therapy that regenerated hair cells in the inner ear:
… Read the rest “New hair to heal hearing”A research team
SONG: “Burning Libraries”. (available as .ogg here)
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SOURCE: Based on The Guardian, 12 Oct 2023, “Researchers use AI to read word on ancient scroll burned… Read the rest “SONG: Burning Libraries”
BBC reports on a very, very cold case that’s been solved. A body found during roadwork, extending a highway between Cambridge and Huntington, England, has been conclusively identified… Read the rest “Solving the mystery of a 2,000-year-old body”
This is an illustration from a 1937 edition of Natural History magazine, an article called “Chinese Design.” This is a “Disk of Heaven,” or bi, a slightly mysterious… Read the rest “Science Art: Ancient Ritual White Jade Disk of Heaven…, 1937”
The Japan Times covers a brand new (to us) prehistoric dung beetle that a high school student discovered while breaking rocks in class:
… Read the rest “Japanese high schooler discovers beetle species.”During a geoscience class in September last year,
Defector, mostly a sports-and-social-commentary outlet, asks a scientific question: We’re now at a point, genetics-wise, where we’re ready to make de-extinction a real… Read the rest “What will it mean to bring extinct animals back?”
This is the cover of a report on the Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical “Navy Mini-Drone (STARS),” otherwise known as the Manta Ray. It was a fiberglass remote-controlled drone; … Read the rest “Science Art: Ryan 262 Manta Ray: Program Status Report cover, 1975”
I know, I know, but this is a double-blind study with around 400 hundred subjects published in The Lancet. It’s a little more technical than I like to get with these science-feed posts,… Read the rest “Probiotics to treat long covid?”
Ars Technica reports on a bafflingly huge exoplanet spotted by the Webb Space Telescope. It’s the size of Neptune, but closely orbiting a star much smaller than ours – a red … Read the rest “That planet is too big.”
This is a… well, it’s pretty self-explanatory, really. Unlike most of the images collected here, it’s got its own description printed right on it. These are alien planets,… Read the rest “Science Art: Exoplanets Poster, Institute of Physics, 2023”
Wired reveals a very strange insect-monitoring device called DAS, or “distributed acoustic sensing,” normally used to track vibrations made by seismic shifts and volcanic… Read the rest “Cicadas are so loud, they cause fiberoptic-cable interference.”
Yes, you read that correctly. Science News reports on an unusual distinction in the natural world. Chinstrap penguins manage to net a total of 11 hours of restful sleep every day, thanks … Read the rest “Micro-napping champions: chinstrap penguins”
The Markup looks at what it’s like when you start hiring nurses the way you catch a ride from Uber:
… Read the rest “App-driven gig-economy nurses.”Gig nursing apps have become hugely popular with both nurses and investors, as an estimated
This is not a movie prop, but a working prototype of the Avrocar, a disc-shaped flying machine that graced the skies between 1959 and 1961.
It’s basically a giant fan sending a jet of… Read the rest “Science Art: Avro Canada VZ-9AV Avrocar.”
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