An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: There are few animals more bizarre than the anglerfish, a species that has so much trouble finding a mate that when the male and female do connect underwater, males actually fuse their tissue with the females for life. After the merger, the two share a single respiratory and digestive system. Now scientists have…
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Giant Waves of Sand Are Moving On Mars
“Researchers have spotted large waves of martian sand migrating for the first time,” reports Science magazine. “The discovery dispels the long-held belief that these ‘megaripples’ haven’t moved since they formed hundreds of thousands of years ago. They’re also evidence of stronger-than-expected winds on the Red Planet.” It’s pretty staggering that humans can detect these changes on Mars, says Ralph Lorenz, a…
Hair dye that changes in UV light can reveal your risk of sunburn
Printable stickers that go from purple to light pink throughout the day measure your UV exposure, and the pigment that makes them has also been added to colour-changing hair dye Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2249346-hair-dye-that-changes-in-uv-light-can-reveal-your-risk-of-sunburn/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
What makes hair curly?
What’s the magic ingredient in hair curly? Source: https://www.livescience.com/why-hair-curly.html
Is it safe to use hair dye?
Hair can be dyed at home or at a salon. Is one safer than the other? Source: https://www.livescience.com/hair-dye-safety.html
Hair sample tests may give women more accurate fertility predictions
Analysing the hormones in blood can help establish how many eggs a woman has left – but the hormones in hair might provide a more accurate picture of fertility Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2248078-hair-sample-tests-may-give-women-more-accurate-fertility-predictions/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Linus Torvalds: ‘I Do No Coding Any More’
The Linux Foundation recently uploaded its video from the Open Source Summit and Embedded Linux Conference: Europe. And there was a poignant moment when Linus Torvalds did his traditional keynote conversation with Dirk Hohndel, VMware’s vice president and chief open source officer. Honndel had asked Linus — his hair now uncharacteristically long — what he spends his time on as a…
It’s summer. What’s noon to you?
What do you mean by noon? Do you define it by your clock or wristwatch? Or the gnawing in your stomach? Here’s how astronomers think about noontime. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/its-summer-whats-noon-to-you…
Measuring the spin of a black hole
A black hole, at least in our current understanding, is characterized by having “no hair,” that is, it is so simple that it can be completely described by just three parameters, its mass, its spin and its electric charge. Even though it may have formed out of a complex mix of matter and energy, all other details are lost when the…
Hairstylists with COVID-19 didn’t infect any of their 140 clients. Face masks may be why.
140 clients and six additional stylists could have been exposed to the virus. Source: https://www.livescience.com/hair-stylists-infected-covid19-face-masks.html