Black South African digger becomes paleontology star
NPR shared the story of Lazarus Kgasi, who started as a laborer but fell in love with the science — and is now helping shape […]
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Why did Jeffrey Epstein “collect” so many scientists?
Scientific American has a rather deeply researched piece on something that feels like it’s about politics at first, since it’s following the donations of a […]
SONG: What To Do (On mRNA Immune Checkpoint Blockade)
SONG: “What To Do (On mRNA Immune Checkpoint Blockade)”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “People with some cancers live longer after a […]
Why fund weird science.
American Scientist provides a spirited defense against funding cuts for research into oddball subjects … by listing a lot of strange projects that suddenly led […]
NASA JPL boss quits
The Register reports on the director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory suddenly stepping down for “personal reasons”: During the November 2024 staff cuts, Leshin cautioned: […]
Science Art: Le miscroscope [La Science], 1908.
This is a metal engraving by Charles Philippe Pillet, which I found in the Paris Museums Collections. It’s considered a “numismatic” piece, but I don’t […]
Algae bloom data, set to music.
NPR has a piece on a USF anthro prof’s idea to make her sort of depressing research more palatable in a way of which this […]
Does tweeting research help?
Nature, always hoping to increase the reach of researchers, has a study that shows using the platform formerly known as Twitter to share research will […]
Science Art: Relative Position of Observer and Observed in Direct Ophthalmoscopy, Arthur W. Head, 1917.
You gotta get right up in there if you really want to see what’s going on in those eyes. This is an illustration from a […]
Is this a mad scientist being busted? Something worse?
Ars Technica covers a weird, almost cinematic story out of California, where law enforcement officials have, following a code-enforcement tip, just busted an illegal lab […]
SONG: The Scientist (a penitential Coldplay cover)
SONG: “The Scientist (a penitential cover)”. (available as .ogg here) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This isn’t based on research It’s a cover of this vaguely scientific […]
Despite their public stance, Exxon’s internal science team had a clear view on climate change.
Ars Technica looks at the way Exxon executives decided to bury their own company’s very accurate findings on petroleum and climate: Exxon’s scientific climate work […]
SONG: 14.8 Million
SONG: “14.8 Million”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Nature 14 Dec 2022, “Missing data mean we’ll probably never know how many people died of COVID,” as used […]
More people died of COVID-19 than we know. Or ever will know. Because data is missing.
Nature reports on the gaps in information that mean the official counts of people who died as a result of COVID-19 are much, much lower […]
Paleontology drama: Scientist accused of faking asteroid-death data to scoop colleague.
Science is not a publication normally given to interpersonal conflict. But now it’s covering the story of the weird competition between Robert DePalma and Melanie […]