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: They stress that their […]
Science Art: Ever See This Before?, 1966.
This is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used …
Read moreScience 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 moreSeattle 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 […]
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 […]
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: An incredible new specimen […]
Science Art: Storage and Launching of A.4. Rocket Projectile, 1940s.
Click to embiggen This is how Allied intelligence pictured German V2 rockets being used during World War II. A decade and a half later, this […]
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: DNA extracted […]
Chickens with Fitbits. Future of farming.
Digital Trends looks at how wearable devices could revolutionize farming and keep chickens healthier: Sitting neatly between these two size extremes is a new project […]
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 […]
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 […]
Science Art: A Magnetic Wormhole by J. Prat-Camps, C. Navau & A. Sanchez, 2015.
Click to embiggen From the Wikimedia Commons description: (a) The field of a magnetic source (right) is appearing as an isolated magnetic monopole when passing […]
Is polarization inevitable? Can we *not* agree to disagree?
The American Council on Science and Health thinks disagreements over facts – even ones based on scientific evidence – may well naturally lead to the […]
We really did walk with unicorns.
PhysOrg explains that they were really Elasmotheriums – 3.5-ton primordial rhinos known as “Siberian unicorns” – but they really did survive into the era of […]
Science Art: Atom Nucleon
“Atom” used to be the indivisible unit of matter, the thing smaller than which it was impossible to go. Now we know there are things […]
SONG: Quantum Biology
SONG: “Quantum Biology”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Scientific American, Vol. 27, Dec. 2018, “’Schrödinger’s Bacterium’ Could Be a Quantum Biology Milestone”, as used in the post […]
Thanksgiving Theremin: Moon River (Henry Mancini) by Carolina Eyck and Bertram Burkert
I don’t think Lula Mae is ever coming home. (And if you don’t get the reference, go now and watch the movie!)