SONG: Rats Get Into Everything.
SONG: “Rats Get Into Everything”.
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SOURCE: Nature, 11 July 2018, “Seabirds enhance coral reef productivity and functioning in the absence of invasive… Read the rest “SONG: Rats Get Into Everything.”
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 The Milky Way’s big black hole gives Einstein a boost.
Nature reports on new observations of the vast, insatiable, matter-consuming maw at the heart of our galaxy that, on the bright side, has given helped prove one little corner of one of Einstein’s… Read the rest “The Milky Way’s big black hole gives Einstein a boost.”
There’s liquid water on Mars
The ESA findings were published in Science – Italian astronomers have found evidence of a 12-mile-wide lake under the southern ice cap:
… Read the rest “There’s liquid water on Mars”ABSTRACT:
The presence of liquid water at
Science Art: “How to Build a Human” by hellofromthemoon.
This is an animated look at the part of human reproduction you don’t normally see on video loops on the internet (so if all you’re seeing now is words or a still picture, clicky… Read the rest “Science Art: “How to Build a Human” by hellofromthemoon.”
Jupiter has 12 more moons – including one that’s *weird*.
Science Daily covers the Carnegie Institution for Science’s discovery of 12 previously unknown moons around Jupiter, including a tiny, backward Jovian moon they’re calling… Read the rest “Jupiter has 12 more moons – including one that’s *weird*.”
How rats can kill a coral reef.
Nature has the answer, as supplied by a team of British and Australian researchers. Even though rats can’t live underwater, they can do fine on an island. And, thanks to their appetite… Read the rest “How rats can kill a coral reef.”
SONG: One of Our Submarines (a penitential Thomas Dolby cover)
SONG: “One of Our Submarines” (penitential cover)
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SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for being late for the June song. … Read the rest “SONG: One of Our Submarines (a penitential Thomas Dolby cover)”
Science Art: Partial Eclipse of the Moon by Étienne Léopold Trouvelot
Almost a crescent. A moon of the late 1800s.
An astronomical drawing from the French-born Harvard researcher who, as an entomologist (as well as an astronomer), unleashed the horribly … Read the rest “Science Art: Partial Eclipse of the Moon by Étienne Léopold Trouvelot”
This jungle wasp has a stinger almost as long as the rest of its body.
Science Daily introduces us to a newly discovered Amazonian wasp that’s singularly well-endowed in the stinger department:
… Read the rest “This jungle wasp has a stinger almost as long as the rest of its body.”“The stinger of the new parasitoid wasp called
Genetically modifying cannabis… for science and for profit.
Nature looks at a bold new frontier (and whole new money-making opportunities) opened by fiddling around with cannabis DNA:
… Read the rest “Genetically modifying cannabis… for science and for profit.”On 25 June, the FDA announced its approval of Epidiolex — a treatment
Science Art: Fig. 353, Wessel’s Gas Stove
How a young person can launch “any number of air balloons” without the risk of setting the neighbors’ corn ricks on fire – by using a gas stove with a chimney like… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. 353, Wessel’s Gas Stove”
SONG: Upside Down
SONG: “Upside Down”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Nature, 12 June 2018, “Africa’s majestic baobab trees are mysteriously dying”, as used in the post “The … Read the rest “SONG: Upside Down”
Studying the seat of parrot intelligence
Science Daily looks at a University of Alberta study that has found something interesting about how intelligence forms in our brains – by isolating a different part of parrot brains… Read the rest “Studying the seat of parrot intelligence”
A blood test for autism passes second trial
Science Daily reports on Rensselaer Polytechnic researchers who have had further success in devising a blood-test that assesses whether children are on the autism spectrum:
… Read the rest “A blood test for autism passes second trial”Results
There might not be a limit to human longevity.
The dominant idea is that humans genetically are inclined to live 120 years and no longer. But a new study published in Science demonstrates that that’s not necessarily so –… Read the rest “There might not be a limit to human longevity.”