Rejuvenating seaweed.
Scientific Frontline waxes optimistic about Flinders University research into the youth-prolonging properties of washed-up Australian brown seaweed – specifically, as a source… Read the rest “Rejuvenating seaweed.”
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…
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Science Art: Dopamine 3D spacefill, by Jynto.
Alright, I know what you animals really want. You want that hit of this stuff – the good stuff. Social media, gambling, narcotics, sky diving – all comes down to putting this … Read the rest “Science Art: Dopamine 3D spacefill, by Jynto.”
SONG: Clockwork of the Sky
SONG: “Clockwork of the Sky”. (available as .wav here)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on BBC, 8 Sep 2023, “Asteroid behaving unexpectedly after Nasa’s deliberate… Read the rest “SONG: Clockwork of the Sky”
“Inverse vaccine” could treat autoimmune diseases.
The University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering has announced that they’ve come up with a way to make a person’s immune system forget a molecule… Read the rest ““Inverse vaccine” could treat autoimmune diseases.”
Cavity-killing breakthrough uses strep-fighting molecule.
SciTech Daily reports on scientists from Israel and China who have discovered a molecule nicknamed DIM that reduces biofilms that cause dental plaque by 90%. The molecule, if added to toothpaste… Read the rest “Cavity-killing breakthrough uses strep-fighting molecule.”
Science Art: The beetle (Byturus tomentosus) living on raspberry, from Nordisk familjebok, 1920
A raspberry beetle and its favorite fruit, from a very special category on Wikimedia Commons.
We do love an encyclopedia.
There’s a watery planet way out yonder.
Science Daily shares the latest James Webb Space Telescope discovery, of a large planet around a distant star whose chemical traces show a high likelihood that there’s enough water… Read the rest “There’s a watery planet way out yonder.”
Space mission seems to have changed asteroid’s orbit.
BBC is reporting on the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission, which touched down on the asteroid Dimorphos (which orbits larger asteroid Didymos) earlier this year. The test… Read the rest “Space mission seems to have changed asteroid’s orbit.”
Science Art: Comparison of planets and stars (2017 update), by Dave Jarvis and Jcpag2012.
This is another way of doing a Cosmic Zoom, comparing the sizes of astronomical things. If you’ve wondered how many Earths could fit inside Arcturus, well, here’s one way to… Read the rest “Science Art: Comparison of planets and stars (2017 update), by Dave Jarvis and Jcpag2012.”
Human(-ish) kidneys grown in pig embryos.
Science News brings home the bacon for humans needing kidney transplants, with news of a Chinese research team that has successfully grown a “humanized” kidney (an organ … Read the rest “Human(-ish) kidneys grown in pig embryos.”
Lucid dreamers reveal waking brains.
Science News reports on a new method of exploring what happens to our brains when we sleep – by using self-trained lucid dreamers as guides behind the gates of Dreamland:
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Science Art: From Notes on Cephalopods from Northern California, 1967.
I thought this was a nautilus, but it might be a moon snail. It’s a mollusk of some kind, with a gracefully curved shell and a complex, fleshy body, all rendered as simply as possible … Read the rest “Science Art: From Notes on Cephalopods from Northern California, 1967.”
A lot fewer emperor penguins next year. “Catastrophic breeding failure.”
The British Antarctic Survey reports on one consequence of thinning sea ice after one of the warmest winters on record. Out of five known breeding colonies in the Belligshausen Sea, four… Read the rest “A lot fewer emperor penguins next year. “Catastrophic breeding failure.””
From plastic trash into sudsy cleansers.
Science News reports on a system for “upcycling” plastic trash by converting the non-recycled waste destined for the landfill into surfactants, the chemicals that make … Read the rest “From plastic trash into sudsy cleansers.”
Science Art: ECHO 100′ Satellite Inflation Tests, 1958.
A satellite that is also a balloon, as inflated at NASA’s Langley Research Center in 1958.
I found this image gleaming in the NASA Image and Video Library.