What I'm Reading: Science Reads

An eclectic set of science popular articles that caught my eye this month.

Once a month or so I plan to send links to science on the web that have caught my interest. The selection will be eclectic, but will represent a selection of interesting (to me) scientific developments that have been announced in publicly accessible articles. Enjoy!

Physics and Astronomy

1.     Moon’s magnetic field wouldn’t protect people, but it protects water.

2.     Neutrino Detection Gets A Boost

3.     Gravitational Wave Mirror Experiments as Quantum Entities

4.     No Axion wobble for Black Holes 

5.     New Present from the Moon 

6.     Electric circuit learns on its own.

7.     I am biased (having proposed quantum hair), but this looks like an argument about Black Hole information loss that might be right. 

8. More Things in Heaven and Earth…and in the Radio Sky…

Climate Change

1.     Great Barrier reef suffers again.

2.     Easier Said than Done 

3.     Did Climate kill the Vikings? 

Biology and Medicine:

1.     Galapagos keeps losing tortoises so this is a nice surprise.

2.     Single Spiders are bad enough! 

3.     Brain implant helps paralyzed man spell out thoughts. 

4.     Music soothes the savage beast, and not so savage beasts.. One of the many reasons I don’t eat meat. 

5. Dolphins make social friendships with language and it pays off.

Miscellaneous, History etc

1.     Images from the most amazing expedition ever: Shackelton’s lost shipwreck 

2.     A lovely reminiscence of Steven Hawking by Nobel Laureate Sheldon Glashow.