Fossil antibiotics
Stat covers a medicine-making strategy right out of Jurassic Park, with a UPenn researcher named Cesar de la Fuente, who is looking for protein-chains called peptides in the fossilized… Read the rest “Fossil antibiotics”
Science Art: Sunrise - Philippine Sea, 2017
This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science …
Read moreScience Art: Égouts de Paris, by Jules Ferat.
There’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. B…
Read moreScience Art: Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, by David K. Stone.
I found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is a…
Read moreSONG: Alone
SONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack …
Read moreScience 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 moreNo song today
Once again, have a full instrumental track and melody, even, but the lyrics are not there. I now owe either two or three covers. One of them is just about ready.
Science Art: 821393 – Flying Machine – Wright Brothers, May 22, 1906.
It’s an airplane. Maybe the airplane. And this is how it looked when the U.S. Patent Office made it official.
I found the illustration on Wikimedia, where it was uploaded from the National… Read the rest “Science Art: 821393 – Flying Machine – Wright Brothers, May 22, 1906.”
Hit the snooze button; your brain will thank you.
BBC’s Science Focus recommends indulging in another few minutes of shut-eye, because Swedish research shows hitting the snooze button on your morning alarm can boost brain function… Read the rest “Hit the snooze button; your brain will thank you.”
Unlocking brain fog: is it serotonin?
STAT reports on a new study that might be getting to the root of the long-covid brain fog, finding that the symptom appears to go hand-in-hand with a lack of free-floating serotonin in the … Read the rest “Unlocking brain fog: is it serotonin?”
Chinese programmer fined RMB 1 million for using a VPN.
The Guardian reports on a dramatic sentence for the crime of internet privacy:
… Read the rest “Chinese programmer fined RMB 1 million for using a VPN.”The programmer, surnamed Ma, was issued with a penalty notice by the public security bureau of Chengde, a city
Science Art: Two-Step Multi-Audi-Fone ad, 1916.
This is an ad from, as Thomas Dolby put it, the Golden Age of wireless. More literally, it’s from the October, 1916, issue of The Electrical Experimenter, a Hugo Gernsback publication,… Read the rest “Science Art: Two-Step Multi-Audi-Fone ad, 1916.”
An AI anesthesiologist to detect pain during surgery.
EurekAlert! shares the slightly unnerving announcement made at the annual Anesthesiology meeting about a new application for AI – monitoring pain levels in surgical patients … Read the rest “An AI anesthesiologist to detect pain during surgery.”
Samples from asteroid Bennu “an astrobiologist’s dream”
Popular Science raves about the carbon, oxygen, and other life-sustaining material NASA scientists have found in samples retrieved from the OSIRIS-REx mission to asteroid Bennu:
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Uruguay gets 98% of its power from renewable sources.
NPR had a piece on the little South American nation that’s leading the way to a less polluted future, getting nearly all of its electricity from well-placed windmills and an economic… Read the rest “Uruguay gets 98% of its power from renewable sources.”
Science Art: Cafeteria virion by the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics ViralZone.
It looks like a D20 wrapped in iguana leather and filled with caramel and chocolate sprinkles. It’s actually a rheavirus, also known as cafeteriavirus. It’s in the Mimiviridae… Read the rest “Science Art: Cafeteria virion by the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics ViralZone.”
Ultrasound cleans “forever chemicals” from polluted groundwater.
Scientific Frontline reports on new Ohio State University research that shows sound waves can shake apart toxic PFAS, molecules so durable they previously earned the nickname “forever… Read the rest “Ultrasound cleans “forever chemicals” from polluted groundwater.”
AIs are in the hurricane-forecast business now.
Ars Technica, in not so many words, is saying that AIs could be coming for the meteorologists next. But for now, they’re helping the pros predict hurricanes accurately with greater… Read the rest “AIs are in the hurricane-forecast business now.”
Science Art: Planetary Systems, with Five Opening Flaps, from Geographical Studies by Levi Walter Yaggy, 1887.
I found this fascinating artifact in a wonderful article in Public Domain Review about Yaggy’s maps, pop-ups, and 3D diagrams of the Earth’s surface, habitats, and other … Read the rest “Science Art: Planetary Systems, with Five Opening Flaps, from Geographical Studies by Levi Walter Yaggy, 1887.”
Stonehenge’s altar is not like the other stones.
IFL Science takes a closer look at the massive stones of Stonehenge. Most of them seem to have been transported with great effort from a faraway quarry in Wales. But the monument’s … Read the rest “Stonehenge’s altar is not like the other stones.”