Bold Scientist

Deep Impact is a NASA space probe designed to study the composition of the interior of the comet Tempel 1.

Day #88 – A new study of winners of the Nobel Prize in economics finds that creativity is not just for the young.

Day #87 – Hubble finds the universe is expanding 9% faster than it did in the past.

Day #86 – Dark-matter detector observes exotic nuclear decay.

Day #85 – An increase of one percentage point in state tax burden (in the USA) was associated with about a six percent reduction in mortality.

Day #84 – Human activity in China and India dominates the greening of Earth.

Day #83 – No safe amount of alcohol during pregnancy.

Day #82 – Four thousand years ago, the Babylonians invented multiplication. Last month, mathematicians perfected it.

Day #81 – Insects in freezing regions have a protein that acts like antifreeze.

Day #80 – Breastfeeding boosts metabolites important for brain growth.

Day #79 – At what age is our sense of optimism at its highest?

Day #78 – The Large Hadron Collider might reveal dark matter’s less secretive sibling particles.

Day #77 – For the first time, the performance of a deep-learning algorithm trained by open-source images exclusively is compared to many dermatologists covering all levels within the clinical hierarchy.

Day #76 – Early childhood exposure to air pollutants may convey a higher risk for developmental delays.

Day #75 – Cost reductions for Medicaid from reducing smoking are likely to grow over the long term.

Day #74 – Breakthrough in medicine: Israeli researchers print live heart.

Day #73 – Things become popular more rapidly, and we lose interest again ever faster.

An 18th-century Persian astrolabe. Astrolabes are complicated inclinometers that used the position of the stars and planets to determine longitude and latitude; they were in use for this purpose from Roman antiquity through the Renaissance.

Day #72 – Filial cannibalism is especially witnessed in species that participate in communal egg laying — creatures like fish, insects, reptiles, and amphibians.

Day #71 – The moon is losing 200 tons of water a year to meteorite strikes.