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)
ARTIST: grant.
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
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 nickname “forever… Read the rest “Ultrasound cleans “forever chemicals” from polluted groundwater.”
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%. The molecule, if added to toothpaste… Read the rest “Cavity-killing breakthrough uses strep-fighting molecule.”
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 that there’s enough water… Read the rest “There’s a watery planet way out yonder.”
I hate to read it, but NPR reported on a Stanford study that found gas stoves increase levels of benzene in the home – a chemical that brings with it a noticeable increase in risk of cancer… Read the rest “Cooking with gas increases cancer risk.”
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 the 21st century – without… Read the rest “Making a pain-free battery: “Nickel doesn’t have child-labor issues.””
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 “data sonification project”… Read the rest “Elemental music from a spectroscope.”
The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health has released an alarming study that’s found levels of carcinogens and other toxic materials, including … Read the rest “Kids are wearing toxic make-up”
Uranium, which produces 3 million times more energy and 10 million times less waste!
I honestly have no idea if this PSA is real or a sarcastic reproduction. It could easily have gone with … Read the rest “Science Art: Science by Santa: Remember bad kids get coal, Good kids get Uranium….,”
The National Science Foundation puts a spotlight on Tufts University, where researchers have taken proteins from the cocoons of silk moths and used them to create a new water-repellent… Read the rest “Silk for Teflon. Non-stick silk. Silk without friction.”
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