SONG: Forgotten
SONG: “Forgotten”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Nature, 13 Dec. 2018, “‘Transmissible’ Alzheimer’s theory gains traction “, as used in the post “Alzheimer’s can… Read the rest “SONG: Forgotten”
Science 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 moreScience Art: Azimuth and Altitude Instrument, c. 1876
This is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically describe…
Read moreScience Art: Solar Explosions, G79, by Clement Lindley Wragge.
This 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
SONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “These roaches for…
Read moreScience Art: Mars - Cloudy North Polar Cap, by Andrea Luck
Really, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1.
“CNSA” is…
Read more SONG: Black Star (a penitential cover)
SONG: “Black Star” (penitential cover)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for being late for a song a month or two ago. It’s… Read the rest “SONG: Black Star (a penitential cover)”
New Years with Ultima Thule – that’s far out.
Nature reports on the New Horizon space probe’s date for New Years – with Ultima Thule (formally, 2014 MU69), the most distant object visited by one of our spacecraft:
… Read the rest “New Years with Ultima Thule – that’s far out.”MU69
MIT shrinks objects to the nano-scale.
MIT researchers have devised a technique to create a solid, 3D structure and then reduce it to one-thousandth its original volume:
… Read the rest “MIT shrinks objects to the nano-scale.”“It’s a way of putting nearly any kind of material into
Science Art: Transition of straight Nautiloidea into typical Nautilus, 1972
Evolution took a winding path with the nautilus. They curled, over generations, into a spiral.
In order, we’re looking at: Orthoceras, Cyrtoceras, Gyroceras… Read the rest “Science Art: Transition of straight Nautiloidea into typical Nautilus, 1972”
Alzheimer’s can be transmitted person-to-person. (Surgically, that is.)
Nature discusses how the proteins that cause havoc in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients can be transmitted from person to person:
… Read the rest “Alzheimer’s can be transmitted person-to-person. (Surgically, that is.)”They stress that their research does not suggest
Seattle schools prove later waking makes students more productive.
NPR reports on a year-long, city-wide study that proved one of those obvious things that for some reason we never act on: Teenagers do a heck of a lot better if you just let them stay up late and… Read the rest “Seattle schools prove later waking makes students more productive.”
We now know what killed everything in Earth’s worst mass-extinction event.
Science Alert lets us know that oceanographers have determined that the event that killed 70 percent of all land species and 96 percent of all marine species (not individuals – but… Read the rest “We now know what killed everything in Earth’s worst mass-extinction event.”
Color-changing, warm-blooded ichthyosaurs.
Earth Archives talks about a recent fossil discovery that changes the way we picture marine life in the age of dinosaurs:
… Read the rest “Color-changing, warm-blooded ichthyosaurs.”An incredible new specimen of the Early Jurassic genus Stenopterygius
Science Art: Storage and Launching of A.4. Rocket Projectile, 1940s.
This is how Allied intelligence pictured German V2 rockets being used during World War II. A decade and a half later, this was how we put things (and, eventually, people)… Read the rest “Science Art: Storage and Launching of A.4. Rocket Projectile, 1940s.”
She might’ve been Plague Victim Zero.
Science News unearths the 5,000-year-old remains of a Scandinavian woman who seems to have been the oldest known victim of the Black Death:
… Read the rest “She might’ve been Plague Victim Zero.”DNA extracted from the woman’s teeth comes from
Chickens with Fitbits. Future of farming.
Digital Trends looks at how wearable devices could revolutionize farming and keep chickens healthier:
… Read the rest “Chickens with Fitbits. Future of farming.”Sitting neatly between these two size extremes is a new project coming out of the
There’s an easy fix for gerrymandering, if Congress can count two decimal places.
In Forbes, Johns Hopkins Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Biostatistics Steven Salzberg has put forward a modest mathematical proposal to solve some of our… Read the rest “There’s an easy fix for gerrymandering, if Congress can count two decimal places.”
It’s not quite “Please open the podbay doors, HAL,” but almost….
Buzzfeed reports on an unexpected personality clash with an AI on the International Space Station – an incident that could affect how similar synthetic companions are used on missions… Read the rest “It’s not quite “Please open the podbay doors, HAL,” but almost….”
Science Art: A Magnetic Wormhole by J. Prat-Camps, C. Navau & A. Sanchez, 2015.
From the Wikimedia Commons description:
… Read the rest “Science Art: A Magnetic Wormhole by J. Prat-Camps, C. Navau & A. Sanchez, 2015.”(a) The field of a magnetic source (right) is appearing as an isolated magnetic monopole when passing through the magnetostatic