SONG: “Bed Chem” (a penitential Sabrina Carpenter cover). (OGG version here.)
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SOURCE: This wasn’t based on any scientific research. It’s a … Read the rest “SONG: Bed Chem (a penitential Sabrina Carpenter cover)”
NPR reports on new findings for classical works of art. It’s pretty well known now that the stark white of ancient Greek marble statues was originally a lot more colorful when they … Read the rest “The smell of Venus de Milo”
And, says National Geographic, it makes them take evasive maneuvers, ready to dodge their Antarctic predators:
… Read the rest “Krill sniff penguin poop”In Antarctica’s Palmer Station lab, scientists put wild-caught krill
We are at a point where this had to be published, but Stat has here gathered the actual data into one easy-to-read explainer for why we actually do really, truly know that vaccinations don’t… Read the rest “So here’s *why* vaccines don’t cause autism.”
IFL Science reports on the 121-gram sample that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe collected from Asteroid Bennu — a handful of dirt that shows a wealth of chemicals necessary to form… Read the rest “Asteroid Bennu rich in ancient life-sustaining stuff.”
Science Daily has news from Colorado State chemical researchers, who’ve found an adhesive that does the work of superglue, but is “biodegradable, tunable, and reusable”… Read the rest “Sustainable superglue.”
Advances in Space Research has a novel idea for a Martian lander. Instead of mapping out the likeliest landing spot from way down here on Earth well ahead of time, a lander could be equipped… Read the rest “Mars lander following its nose”
The Guardian reports on a study of knock-on effects. Bat populations have been decimated in the U.S. and beyond by the white-nose fungus. Because bats eat mosquitoes (which carry disease)… Read the rest “Bat deaths to fungus result in more than 1,300 human children dying.”
This is a Popular Mechanics illustration from 102 years ago that sounds like it could have been written today. Warnings about industrial pollution increasing air temperature are nothing… Read the rest “Science Art: The Furnaces of the World…., 1912”
404 Media report on an Australian team that has created cold espresso and a cold-brew coffee that takes a mere three minutes (instead of 12-to-24 hours) to make, thanks to a boost from ultrasonic… Read the rest “A 3-minute cold-brew coffee with ultrasound.”
There’s a killer on the road indeed. The WPA released this poster to discourage drunk driving, or at least running your hotrod on moonshine.
Public health has never been this metal… Read the rest “Science Art: Don’t Mix ‘Em!, by Robert Lachenman for the Work Projects Administration, 1936.”
SONG: “Fine Altar Stone”. (available as .ogg here)
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SOURCE: Based on IFL Science, 25 Sep 2023, “The Stonehenge Altar Stone Didn’t Come From Where We Thought… Read the rest “SONG: Fine Altar Stone”
Physics Magazine joins Tufts University researcher Giulia Guidetti who has studied a glass shard that was broken and buried shortly after 100 B.C.E. that over 2,000 years gained the iridescent… Read the rest “Roman glass became photonic crystal”
Science Alert checks out “superionic ice,” an exotic form of ice that stays solid at extremely hot temperatures and is probably floating around inside the cores of Uranus … Read the rest “Hot Ice”
Popular Science raves about the carbon, oxygen, and other life-sustaining material NASA scientists have found in samples retrieved from the OSIRIS-REx mission to asteroid Bennu:
… Read the rest “Samples from asteroid Bennu “an astrobiologist’s dream””And
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