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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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A new explanation for the missing billion years in...

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2026/03/06

IFL Science has a new explanation of “The Great Unconformity,” a worldwide phenomenon in which about a billion years of rock deposits are just missing, everywhere around … Read the rest “A new explanation for the missing billion years in Earth’s geologic record.”The post A new explanation for the missing billion years in Earth’s geologic record. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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School bus-sized spinosaur discovered

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2026/03/06

Last month, BBC’s Science Focus reported on an “astonishingly” large dinosaur discovered in the Sahara Desert of Niger — a bus-sized behemoth with a crescent-shaped… Read the rest “School bus-sized spinosaur discovered” The post School bus-sized spinosaur discovered first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Honey bees navigate VERY precisely.

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2026/02/20

PhysOrg considers the flight paths of honeybees in three dimensions and finds that the insects are even more precise than anyone imagined: A team from the University of Freiburg led by neurobiologist … Read the rest “Honey bees navigate VERY precisely.” The post Honey bees navigate VERY precisely. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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A drill older than the pharoahs

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2026/02/20

PhysOrg reports on a very old tool – does it count as a power tool? At any rate, it was made in Egypt thousands of years ago, rediscovered in the 1920s and then, on re-examination now, … Read the rest “A drill older than the pharoahs” The post A drill older than the pharoahs first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Science Art: Kentrosaurus aethiopicus, by H. Zell.

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2026/02/16

This is an image from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, a German natural history museum, where they have a skeleton of a stegosaurus relative unearthed in Tendaguru, Tanzania. It’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Kentrosaurus aethiopicus, by H. Zell.” The post Science Art: Kentrosaurus aethiopicus, by H. Zell. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Science Art: Curiosity Approaching Mars, Artist’s...

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2026/02/02

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”The post Science Art: Curiosity Approaching Mars, Artist’s Concept, 2012 first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Science Art: From Les raisons des forces mouuantes,...

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2026/01/19

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.” The post Science Art: From Les raisons des forces mouuantes, etc., 1615. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Science Art: Violet-Rays!, 1917

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2026/01/12

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” The post Science Art: Violet-Rays!, 1917 first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Caribbean whales have viruses we’ve never heard of.

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2026/01/11

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: The … Read the rest “Caribbean whales have viruses we’ve never heard of.” The post Caribbean whales have viruses we’ve never heard of. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Science Art: Diagram of the Comparative Sizes of the...

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2025/12/29

This is one of the 10 illustrations by Dan Beard for John Jacob Aster’s book A Journey In Other Worlds. Well, actually it’s the one diagram. The other nine images show things … Read the rest “Science Art: Diagram of the Comparative Sizes of the Planets, 1895”The post Science Art: Diagram of the Comparative Sizes of the Planets, 1895 first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Reversing Alzheimer’s? In mice at least….

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2025/12/25

Science Daily shared news from University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center about mice trials that demonstrate memories actually being restored as brain energy levels are brought … Read the rest “Reversing Alzheimer’s? In mice at least….”The post Reversing Alzheimer’s? In mice at least…. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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SONG: Nine Lives to Rigel Five (a penitential Game...

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2025/12/24

SONG: “Nine Lives to Rigel Five (a penitential Game Theory cover)”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This is not based on scientific research; it’s a penitential… Read the rest “SONG: Nine Lives to Rigel Five (a penitential Game Theory cover)” The post SONG: Nine Lives to Rigel Five (a penitential Game Theory cover) first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Science Art: NIH- NCI cancer research

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2025/12/22

An image of a cell, a neoplasm, from the National Institute of Health’s National Library of Medicine, the “Images from the History of Medicine” collection. A “… Read the rest “Science Art: NIH- NCI cancer research” The post Science Art: NIH- NCI cancer research first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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