It walks! It has gills, but by goodness it WALKS! The BBC isn’t quite so enthusiastic in describing the discovery of a four-legged fish fossil:

“From a distance, it would have looked like an alligator. But closer up, you would have noticed a real tail fin at the back end, a gill flap at the side of the head; also [...]

Simon Andrews took this microscopic photograph of a cell cluster of coelastrum algae and submitted it to Wikimedia Commons, where I found it.

How much am I loving the Mars Phoenix tweets?

Very much.

ScienceBlogs has (have?) a piece on an interesting study about ways to make your thinking less hidebound and more creative:

Yet relatively few studies focus on whether thought and behavior can be de-automatized – or, as I might call it if I were asking for trouble, deprogrammed.

What would count as deprogramming? For example, consider the Stroop task, where subjects must [...]

PopSci‘s got skin in a can. I mean it. An aerosol. You spray it on burns. It’s skin in a can:

Within the next five years, Atala aims to build a portable version for the battlefield that will print layers of skin tissue directly onto deep flesh wounds. For surface wounds, such as burns, the consortium is developing a [...]

PhysOrg.com puts on the Ritz with a new discovery about the sophisticated Neanderthals of Great Britain:

“The tools we’ve found at the site are technologically advanced and potentially older than tools in Britain belonging to our own species, Homo sapiens,” says Dr Matthew Pope of Archaeology South East based at the UCL Institute of Archaeology. “It’s exciting to think [...]

SONG: “All Our Tomorrows” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: “DNA Retrieved from 1,000-Year-Old Vikings”, LiveScience.com, 28 May 2008, as used in the post Viking DNA .

ABSTRACT: Well, I kinda knew I’d go for the Viking story this month because it’s Vikings. I thought this might wind [...]

From The New Students Reference Work (1914), edited by Chandler B. Beach, associate editor Frank Morton McMurry.

Scanned by Wikimedia Commons user LA2.

Eyes as round as quarters, mouth pulled into a hideous grimace, New Scientist pulls back the veil on a chilling new study that reveals the survival benefits of looking terrified:

The open eyes allowed quicker detection of objects on the periphery, as well as faster eye movements back and forth, while an open nose took in more air with each [...]