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A planet that is constantly exploding.

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2024/06/15

This discovery reminds me of some people I know. Mashable reports on the discovery 66 light years away of solar system “HD 104067,” with a [...] The post A planet that is constantly exploding. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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An antibiotic that spares gut bacteria.

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2024/06/12

Medical News Today has findings that make it that much easier to fight bacterial infections without throwing your whole body out of whack – by [...] The post An antibiotic that spares gut bacteria. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Science Art: Interior of right osseous labyrinth,...

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2024/06/09

This is the listening part, the twisting bits of the inner ear. It really does look like a mollusk, doesn’t it? (“Cochlea” literally means “snail” [...] The post Science Art: Interior of right osseous labyrinth, from Gray’s Anatomy. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Recording tinnitus as it happens – for art AND science.

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2024/06/09

Well, if a microphone can act as a speaker (which it can, and vice versa), then why can’t an ear act as a megaphone? It [...] The post Recording tinnitus as it happens – for art AND science. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Moon running on the Wall of Death

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2024/06/06

Science News finds inspiration from the carnival for a new way to keep astronauts in shape, by running along the inside of a circular wall [...] The post Moon running on the Wall of Death first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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A drug to regrow teeth.

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2024/06/04

Endgadget (via Yahoo! News) has bad news for the Tooth Fairy coming out of Kyoto University, where researchers have a drug for regrowing lost teeth [...] The post A drug to regrow teeth. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Science Art: Boars’s tusk helmet NAMA6568, Athens,...

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2024/06/02

This is a photo taken in 2015 by Wikimedia Commons user Jebulon, of a helmet made for a Mycenaean warrior between 3.300 and 3,400 years [...] The post Science Art: Boars’s tusk helmet NAMA6568, Athens, Greece. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Marines combat-tested Bronze-Age armor. It worked.

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2024/06/02

Science Alert covers a (mock) battle that solved an ancient mystery – when Greek marines figured out if the 3,500-year-old Dendra armor was genuinely useful [...] The post Marines combat-tested Bronze-Age armor. It worked. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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All thumbs bad, third thumb good.

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2024/06/01

Science Adviser has news (and video) of a handy little upgrade invented by robotics researcher Tamar Makin and her colleagues. They’re calling it the Third [...]The post All thumbs bad, third thumb good. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Biking for long life.

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2024/05/29

Did we just mention exercise slowing down time? NPR has a whole ‘noter story on muscular effort changing the progress of time. This is a [...] The post Biking for long life. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Science Art: Main floristic types from the...

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2024/05/29

This is a likeness of the southern bit of South America as it was near the end of the Cretaceous, right before the event that [...] The post Science Art: Main floristic types from the Maastrichtian, F. Guillén, 2012. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Algae bloom data, set to music.

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2024/04/12

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 [...]The post Algae bloom data, set to music. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Glowing petunias.

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2024/04/09

NPR greets springtime with flowers that show their brightest color (a fluorescent green) after the sun goes down, thanks to genetic modification that makes these [...] The post Glowing petunias. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Science Art: Amoeba. Actinophrys. by Philip Henry Gosse.

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2024/04/07

This is a scientific illustration done as a paper collage; that is, Philip Gosse took a sheet of paper, painted it as black as space, [...] The post Science Art: Amoeba. Actinophrys. by Philip Henry Gosse. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Ancient viruses gave us our brains.

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2024/03/15

“Language is a virus,” said William S. Burroughs. Now, Science Daily reports that researchers at Altos Labs-Cambridge Institute of Science have found that intelligence itself [...]The post Ancient viruses gave us our brains. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Science Art: Relative Position of Observer and...

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2024/03/10

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 [...]The post Science Art: Relative Position of Observer and Observed in Direct Ophthalmoscopy, Arthur W. Head, 1917. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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