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Is it strange how much this resembles a 1950s comic-book cover about dashing flying saucer pilots? And we made it real, and we sent it to space piloted by remote control computers with a crew… Read the rest “Science Art: Curiosity Approaching Mars, Artist’s Concept, 2012”
Sci Tech Daily investigates a new treatment for arthritis that can not just stop joint damage but actually reverse it by blocking chemicals associated with aging … even in young patients… Read the rest “Age-blocking injection rebuilds knee cartilage.”
Well, good at living a long time, at least. Nature reports on a study that finds about 55 percent of the factors that grant a long life come from your inherited DNA:
… Read the rest “Long life really can come down to good ancestors.”The findings should aid in
Science Adviser reports on the discovery (or rediscovery) of a fossil that is not just a new species, not just a new class, order, nor phylum of life. It’s so different from animals,… Read the rest “Fossil reveals new *kingdom* of life.”
This is a poster from the WPA urging people to save their own lives … by getting tested for a sexually transmitted disease. The geometry of the diagram in the center — the circle… Read the rest “Science Art: Don’t wait – 70% are doomed, c. 1936”
SONG: “Social Prosthetic”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Why Did Jeffrey Epstein Cultivate Famous Scientists?”, Scientific American… Read the rest “SONG: Social Prosthetic”
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 disgraced late… Read the rest “Why did Jeffrey Epstein “collect” so many scientists?”
This is a light experiment from the 1600s, which I found in the British Library archive over yonder.
The book, Les raisons des forces &c was written by Salomon de Caus. You can find it … Read the rest “Science Art: From Les raisons des forces mouuantes, etc., 1615.”
Nature reports on materials engineers stealing the secrets of octopus skin to create substances that can change color and texture on demand:
… Read the rest “Wearing octopus camouflage”Very small sub-micrometre bumps or grooves,
Science recently covered some breakthroughs in building robots that measure less than a millimeter square, but can sense surroundings, carry out commands, make calculations, and respond… Read the rest “Robots the size of microbes.”
This is an ad from the April 1917 edition of Hugo Gernsback’s The Electrical Experimenter, which you can read on archive.org here.
I can only assume this is an early blacklight bulb… Read the rest “Science Art: Violet-Rays!, 1917”
Science Daily reports on pilot whales and orcas in the Caribbean which DNA analysis has revealed are carrying “invisible” viruses we’ve never detected before:
… Read the rest “Caribbean whales have viruses we’ve never heard of.”The
Nature reports on new findings about the roots of mental fatigue — which has implications not just for generally feeling worn out, but also for conditions like chronic fatigue, surgical… Read the rest “Why is your brain so tired?”
CyberNews reports on Martha Root, a pseudonymous hacker who single-handedly infiltrated and shut down a series of websites dedicated to white power:
… Read the rest “Pink Power Ranger hacker breaks white power websites.”The leak affects WhiteDate, a white
Fifty-two breeds of chickens!
This is an educational poster from the 1800s, published by L. Prang & Co., Boston, the makers of “Prang’s American Chromos: FacSimiles… Read the rest “Science Art: The Poultry of the World, 1868”
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