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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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 moreLiveScience looks at a lead tablet, translated by a Roman history professor, that consists of a dancer’s curse against a rival:
… Read the rest ““Curse of the dancer” reveals backstage backstabbing goes back at least 1,500 years.”The curse calls upon numerous demons to inflict harm
Real Clear Science has a strange Japanese experiment (published in PloS ONE) in which researchers stole an insect-repelling trick from zebras and gave black cattle white stripes –… Read the rest “Paint cows like zebras and they’ll be better off, initial study indicates.”
Nature reveals the “missing link” for sharks, thanks to a cartilaginous fossil of a 383 million-year-old eel-like fish:
… Read the rest “As Australopithecus to us, so this fossil to sharks.”Christian Klug at the University of Zurich in Switzerland
This how much the average temperature in Scotland has changed, year over year, since 1884. The white stripes represent the average temperature in Scotland between 1971… Read the rest “Science Art: Warming Stripes for Scotland from 1884-2018, from #ShowYourStripes, University of Reading’s Institute for Environmental Analytics.”
BBC News has the story (told in many photos) of Thibault, a man who has been able to move all four limbs with a robot body he controls with two brain implants:
… Read the rest “Paralyzed man moves, thanks to mind-controlled exoskeleton.”Sixty-four electrodes on each implant
Science Daily takes a few deep breaths and plunges into a Columbia/Harvard/Boston University study that’s found that aspirin can protect lungs against damage from air pollution… Read the rest “Aspirin against air pollution? Really?”
Science News takes rhinovirus by the (one) horn with a study that finds a weak spot in the way the germ spreads inside our cells:
… Read the rest “Disabling one protein might (finally) cure the common cold. Thing is, the protein’s not in the germ – it’s in us.”Researchers have identified a key protein in humans that some
A machine that converts heat into motion – an amazing feat – from the book New Conceptions in Science by Carl Snyder, found in the Wellcome Collection. In this case, the steam… Read the rest “Science Art: Hero’s Steam Turbine, 1903”
National Geographic reports on a study that has found nicotine-based insecticides – the world’s most widely used pesticides – act like appetite suppressants for … Read the rest “Common insectides have lowered songbird populations – they eat a couple seeds and lose weight.”
Or so PopSci would have you believe. That’s their take on behaviorist Kristyn Vitale’s Oregon State University study of the bonding styles of cats:
… Read the rest “Your cat really does love you.”Both babies and dogs display
New Scientist has the less-than-cheerful discovery that a plastic-based teabag will release *billions* of microplastic particles as it steeps:
… Read the rest “Microplastics in your tea, from the teabag.”A Canadian team found that steeping a
SONG: “Adria”.
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SOURCE: Science, 6 September 2019, “Geologists uncover history of lost continent buried beneath Europe,” as used in the post… Read the rest “SONG: Adria”
An image from an 1868 book, On the Disposition of Iron in Variegated Strata, which was the subject of a collection in the Public Domain Review.
The geometry of this geology is marvelous. I … Read the rest “Science Art: Lower Bagshot Clays, Nr. Wareham, 1868”
Science News shares a small but disturbing Belgian study that found solid particles of air pollutants around developing babies in the womb:
… Read the rest “Air pollution can leave soot inside pregnant mothers’ placentas.”Samples of placenta collected after women in
Growing Produce has a story that strikes me as super weird, about the first-ever commercial fungicide designed to be carried onto crops by bees:
… Read the rest “EPA approves a fungicide distributed *by bees*.”The EPA has recently approved Bee Vectoring
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