Researchers have pushed back the date humanity landed in China by a colossal 200,000 years, LiveScience reports. The latest dating of Homo erectus skulls from the Zhoukoudian cave system… Read the rest “Peking man is an old, old man.”
Here, enjoy some prize-winning mathematical art.
Science Daily reports the dipsomanic discovery that men aren’t impressed by girls who try to outdrink them… but that’s not stopping girls from trying:
… Read the rest “Spring Break Science: Girls, don’t try outdrinking boys.”A survey of 3,616
ScientificBlogging.com invites the military to join in the PLUR culture: Patriotism, Love, Unity and Respect. New research shows that if you really want to support the troops, you should… Read the rest “X for the Veterans!”
Science Daily reveals something more lost than any lost continent – remnants of a time when an ocean itself sank and disappeared:
… Read the rest “The sunken ocean.”Using new computer modelling programs Wouter Schellart
This is what plasma looks like – gas that has been zapped hard enough that it’s now an electrical conductor. Thomas Crooke called it “radiant matter”… Read the rest “Science Art: Energy Arc, central electrode of a Plasma Lamp..”
This is science I take a personal interest in, as someone involved in this stuff. Dr. Bruce Ivins, after being named a “person of interest” by the FBI killed himself (or, at least,… Read the rest “Anthrax attacks: Still unsolved.”
BBC News tells the story of a blind man whose life has been changed by his bionic eye:
… Read the rest “My Bionic Eye.”Ron, who has not revealed his surname, told the BBC: “For 30 years I’ve seen absolutely nothing
Mmmmaybe. At least, that’s what the Telegraph is saying. They’ve talked to astronomers and are now raising the alarm (and our stress levels) with thoughts of invisible killers… Read the rest “Deadly dark comets will kill us all.”
The British press has been all over this, but a fisherman (and biologist) landed a record-sized stingray in Thailand:
… Read the rest “Stingray, I can… whoah.”Guardian:
A British angler – with a dozen helpers – has landed what could
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