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Stress disconnects our memories.

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2026/05/31

Nature finds that a single stressful event — like a job interview, a thesis defense, or a car accident — affects our brains in a way that makes it harder for memories to stick to… Read the rest “Stress disconnects our memories.” The post Stress disconnects our memories. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Seed oils are better than beef, actually.

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2026/05/28

STAT shared the words of a frustrated cardiac dietitian who is personally exhausted by the public panic over seed oils, which, depending on how you look at them, really are healthier than… Read the rest “Seed oils are better than beef, actually.” The post Seed oils are better than beef, actually. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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SONG: Alone

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2026/05/24

SONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack of Social Connection May Have Played A Big Role In Their Extinction”… Read the rest “SONG: Alone” The post SONG: Alone first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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A new (easier) way to detect alien life.

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2026/05/19

Mashable reports on astrobiology research that may have found a simpler (and, importantly, more portable) way to detect traces of life on alien planets … by measuring up amounts … Read the rest “A new (easier) way to detect alien life.” The post A new (easier) way to detect alien life. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Science Art: Fowler – Coregonus Nelsonii Bean.

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2026/05/18

This is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.” But this isn’t the eye. It’s the alimentary canal, the guts,… Read the rest “Science Art: Fowler – Coregonus Nelsonii Bean.” The post Science Art: Fowler – Coregonus Nelsonii Bean. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Science Art: Paraboloide Circular 02, by Rodrigo...

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2026/05/11

This is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wikipedia, which also, helpfully, says a *circular* paraboloid … Read the rest “Science Art: Paraboloide Circular 02, by Rodrigo Argenton”The post Science Art: Paraboloide Circular 02, by Rodrigo Argenton first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Brazilian villages make a good living protecting a...

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2026/05/11

Science reports on a conservation project that’s also helping some of the poorest people on the planet — villagers along the Juruá River, a western tributary of the Amazon … Read the rest “Brazilian villages make a good living protecting a giant fish” The post Brazilian villages make a good living protecting a giant fish first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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The Earliest Emperor Butterfly

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2026/05/09

IFL Science reports on the (beautiful) discovery of a (well-preserved) butterfly from 34 million years ago … a specimen with visible, identifiable wing patterns and veins that … Read the rest “The Earliest Emperor Butterfly” The post The Earliest Emperor Butterfly first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Science Art: Azimuth and Altitude Instrument, c. 1876

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2026/05/04

This is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically described and illustrated, by Phillip T. Sandhurst, which you can leaf through … Read the rest “Science Art: Azimuth and Altitude Instrument, c. 1876” The post Science Art: Azimuth and Altitude Instrument, c. 1876 first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Trees grow six times taller in strange Amazonian soil.

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2026/05/01

BBC’s Science Focus is digging in the dirt to get inside the mystery of “dark earth,” which seems to make the Amazon as fertile as it is… though no one knows how it… Read the rest “Trees grow six times taller in strange Amazonian soil.” The post Trees grow six times taller in strange Amazonian soil. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Science Art: Solar Explosions, G79, by Clement...

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2026/04/27

This is a slide from the magic lantern shows of Clement Lindley Wragge, a popularizer of astronomy, a meteorologist, and a Theosophist mystic who died in 1922. There’s a collection… Read the rest “Science Art: Solar Explosions, G79, by Clement Lindley Wragge.” The post Science Art: Solar Explosions, G79, by Clement Lindley Wragge. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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France ditches Windows for Linux

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2026/04/11

Not the people; the country. Techcrunch reports on a European government switching operating systems to avoid relying on U.S. tech: Linux is an open source operating system that is free … Read the rest “France ditches Windows for Linux” The post France ditches Windows for Linux first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Science Art: Chromista

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2026/04/06

An illustration from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service “Biological Illustration” collection of chromista, which is a proposed kingdom of life. As in animal, vegetable,… Read the rest “Science Art: Chromista”The post Science Art: Chromista first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Brains keep developing at every age.

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2026/03/27

Nature reports on the first atlas of brain development — a map of where and when new cells develop in human brains — and the surprising finding that human brains never stop developing,… Read the rest “Brains keep developing at every age.”The post Brains keep developing at every age. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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SONG: Birds Are Digging

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2026/03/25

SONG: “Birds Are Digging”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “How A Black Fossil Digger Became a Superstar in the Very White World of Paleontology”… Read the rest “SONG: Birds Are Digging” The post SONG: Birds Are Digging first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Cockroaches bond by eating each other’s wings.

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2026/03/23

NPR shares romance among the insects with research that shows at least one species of cockroach, Salganea taiwanensis, forms long-term pair-bonds. And, poetically, these cockroach … Read the rest “Cockroaches bond by eating each other’s wings.” The post Cockroaches bond by eating each other’s wings. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Science Art: OSIRIS-REx after SRC release, 2023

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2026/03/23

This is a still from an animation showing what a larger spaceship does after firing a small capsule toward Earth. The capsule is filled with samples from an asteroid. The description, from… Read the rest “Science Art: OSIRIS-REx after SRC release, 2023” The post Science Art: OSIRIS-REx after SRC release, 2023 first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Palm-sized glass can store 2 million books’ worth of...

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2026/03/19

PhysOrg looks through a Microsoft Research Labs breakthrough called Silica that can use pulses of laser light to inscribe ordinary glass blocks so that they’ll work as a data-storage… Read the rest “Palm-sized glass can store 2 million books’ worth of data”The post Palm-sized glass can store 2 million books’ worth of data first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Life that can survive a full-on asteroid impact.

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2026/03/17

Mashable discusses the discovery at Johns Hopkins of microbes that are hardy enough to have traveled across the vacuum of space and then survived the planet-breaking force of an asteroid… Read the rest “Life that can survive a full-on asteroid impact.” The post Life that can survive a full-on asteroid impact. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Fire-nadoes to clean the ocean

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2026/03/13

BBC’s Science Focus imagines a brighter future … brighter from the blazing fire-tornadoes used to clean plastics and oil from our over-polluted oceans: Taking inspiration … Read the rest “Fire-nadoes to clean the ocean” The post Fire-nadoes to clean the ocean first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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