With Big Data and Predictive Analytics, Scientists Are Getting Smarter About Outbreaks
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
Oldest Figurative Cave Art in Borneo Challenge Eurocentric Views of Art Origins
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
The worlds oldest figurative artwork from Borneo dated to a minimum of 40,000 years. (Credit: Luc-Henri Fage) The oldest known figurative cave art painting in the world may be a 40,000-year-old rendering of a species of wild cattle found in a Borneo cave by a group of Griffith University researchers. It is considerably older than a 35,400-year-old pig-deer painting discovered by the same team a few years ago in a cave located on Sulawesi, another island in Indonesia. These recen ...read more
The 19th-Century Antarctic Air Molecules That Could Change Climate Models
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
Air bubbles trapped in a thin ice core slice. (Credit: Tas van Ommen/Australian Antarctic Division) “Don’t forget to write!” Friends and loved ones bid adieu to members of the latest research team to begin the long trek to Antarctica this weekend. The goal of this latest expedition, which is scheduled to return mid-February, is to see whether concentrations of an atmospheric molecule called hydroxyl, or OH, has changed over time since the industrial revolution. The answe ...read more
Hot Metals Swirl Around White Dwarf in an Ultra-Hot Discovery
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
An artist’s impression of the hot white dwarf GALEXJ014636.8+323615 (white) and its ultra-hot magnetosphere (purple) trapped with the magnetic field (green). (Credit: Nicole Reindl) Some 1,200 light-years from Earth, an international team of astronomers has discovered an ultra-hot magnetosphere, or magnetic field, surrounding a sun-like star. The star, dubbed GALEXJ014636.8+323615, is a white dwarf, the dense core of a dead star. “White dwarfs are the remnants of about 95 perc ...read more
Using Ultrasound, Scientists Deliver Drugs To Specific Brain Regions
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
Scientists used ultrasound to deliver a drug to a rat, like the one captured here. (Credit: Pan Xunbin/shutterstock) At least 50 million people worldwide live with epilepsy. For nearly one-third of those people, anti-seizure medications don’t work. Surgery to remove the part of the brain that causes epileptic fits is an option for some, but the intrusive treatment might not work. It could also lead to memory and language problems, among other complications. Now researchers from Stanford ...read more