Mars lander following its nose
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 […]
chemistry
Bat deaths to fungus result in more than 1,300 human children dying.
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 […]
Science Art: The Furnaces of the World…., 1912
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 […]
A 3-minute cold-brew coffee with ultrasound.
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 […]
Science Art: Don’t Mix ‘Em!, by Robert Lachenman for the Work Projects Administration, 1936.
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 […]
SONG: Fine Altar Stone
SONG: “Fine Altar Stone”. (available as .ogg here) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on IFL Science, 25 Sep 2023, “The Stonehenge Altar Stone Didn’t Come From […]
Roman glass became photonic crystal
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 […]
Samples from asteroid Bennu “an astrobiologist’s dream”
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: […]
Ultrasound cleans “forever chemicals” from polluted groundwater.
Scientific Frontline reports on new Ohio State University research that shows sound waves can shake apart toxic PFAS, molecules so durable they previously earned the […]
Cavity-killing breakthrough uses strep-fighting molecule.
SciTech Daily reports on scientists from Israel and China who have discovered a molecule nicknamed DIM that reduces biofilms that cause dental plaque by 90%. […]
There’s a watery planet way out yonder.
Science Daily shares the latest James Webb Space Telescope discovery, of a large planet around a distant star whose chemical traces show a high likelihood […]
Cooking with gas increases cancer risk.
I hate to read it, but NPR reported on a Stanford study that found gas stoves increase levels of benzene in the home – a […]
Making a pain-free battery: “Nickel doesn’t have child-labor issues.”
Scientific Frontline looks at a new way to create rechargeable lithium-ion batteries – the power behind electric cars, iPhones, and most of the rest of […]
Elemental music from a spectroscope.
Ars Technica digs the research of Indiana University grad student W. Walker Smith, who has combined his interests in music and chemistry to create a […]