WEIRD SCIENCE
A close-up micro-CT scan of Ophiojura‘s eight sets of toothy jaws. J. Black/University of Melbourne – By Michael Irving 2021 Jun 18 – While scientists hunt for signs of life on other planets, there are still plenty of utterly alien creatures left to find …
An engineer demonstrates a car phone five months before the historic first call on a competing company’s commercial mobile telephone service in 1946. Bettmann via Getty Images – By Daniel Bliss, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University 2021 Jun 16 – I …
It doesn’t take a human mind to produce misinformation convincing enough to fool experts in such critical fields as cybersecurity. iLexx/iStock via Getty Images – 2021 Jun 07 Authors: Priyanka Ranade PhD Student in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore …
Porous, biodegradable microspheres could support stem cells while they patch up damaged hearts. British Heart Foundation – By Michael Irving 2021 Jun 13 – It’s a cruel reality that the heart has such a limited capacity to heal itself, meaning that people who survive …
While men over 50 tend to suffer the most acute symptoms of coronavirus, women who get long Covid outnumber men by as much as four to one. A pedestrian in Russia – one of the countries to monitor the disproportionate number of women …
Two particles ready to collide into one another – artistic image. FlashMovie/Depositphotos – By Michael Irving 2021 Jun 09 – A subatomic particle has been found to switch between matter and antimatter, according to Oxford physicists analyzing data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). …
Energy secretary: US adversaries have the capability to shut down our power grid – By Chandelis Duster, CNN Updated 2021 Jun 06 – Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on Sunday warned in stark terms that the US power grid is vulnerable to attacks. – …
Mark Poindexter puts a tarp on the damaged roof of his home in Gulf Breeze, Louisiana, on 2020 Aug 29, in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura. AP Photo/Gerald Herbert – By Erik Salna, Associate Director of Education and Outreach, Extreme Events Institute, Florida …
A conservation effort is planting a poisonous flower along the state’s central coast in hopes of lifting butterfly population. Western monarch butterfly populations have sharply declined in recent years. Photograph: Courtesy River Partners – By Erin McCormick in Berkeley Last modified on 2021 …
Researchers think the frog could be widespread across New Guinea. – By Amy Woodyatt, CNN Updated 2021 May 29 – A team of Australian scientists has discovered a curious “chocolate” tree frog in the lowland rainforests of New Guinea. – Tree frogs are …
