Science in the News (please post articles of general interest here)

[Probeman]

I just thought this was a cool short video by David Attenborough:

https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1860548905911615955

on the electric fields of flowers and bees.

[Probeman]

Talk about a carbon contamination problem...

https://www.space.com/ryugu-asteroid-sample-earth-life-colonization

[Probeman]

This is a cool periodic table:



It's for kids, but I did not know that scandium is used in aluminum alloys for bicycle frames.  Or should I say "aluminium"?



You can buy one here for the kids in your life:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BHXQQ1N

[Probeman]

This has got to be the strangest thing in microscopy you will read today: "vegetative electron microscopy"

https://retractionwatch.com/2025/02/10/vegetative-electron-microscopy-fingerprint-paper-mill/

[Probeman]

Moving electrons is so much easier than moving molecules:

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/02/21/hydrogen-hype-meets-hard-costs-europes-pipeline-plan-in-trouble/

If anyone is interested in why moving electrons is so easy, it's because it's electric fields "all the way down"!  See this excellent explanation from the Veritasium channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI_X2cMHNe0

[Probeman]

This doesn't have anything in particular to do with microanalysis, or does it?

https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Spots-Medicine-Wrong-Health/dp/1639735313

It's a look at dogma, inertia, resistance to new ideas and stubborn refusal to look at scientific data that challenges the "status quo". I found this book to be an amazing and actually quite balanced read, and highly recommend it.