New Scientist steals my innocent view of humankind before the Industrial Revolution. It turns out we were probably messing up the climate in the Ice Age, too:
… Read the rest “Humans: warming the globe for 15,000 years.”Last year, researchers at the
This is a modern tracing
of a 1461 illustration
of a 1364 drawing
of a mechanical clock
that represented the movement of the universe.
Smithsonian reveals yet another secret talent from the original Renaissance man. He was a forefather of fossil science:
… Read the rest “Leonardo da Vinci: Paleontologist.”In a new paper in the journal Palaios, Andrea Baucon shows that he
The same circuit that controls your jonesin’ for just one more is also, the American Physiological Society says, in charge of your heartbreak:
… Read the rest “Addicted to heartbreak”The pain and anguish of rejection by
Fossil-hunters have found the remains of a creature they’re calling Melville’s Leviathan, AP reports. It’s a whale that, 12 million years ago, snacked on humpbacks… Read the rest “We’re gonna need a bigger boat. MUCH bigger.”
The BBC has a simulation of the sound of the Higgs boson.
That’s what the harmonics of the mass-bearing subatomic particle will sound like if one really does turn up at the Large Hadron… Read the rest “Song of the God Particle.”
Funny how Venice itself looks like Venetian glass from far enough away, ain’t it?
From NASA’s Landsat 7 archive.
Happy birthday, America – … Read the rest “Science Art: Venice, Italy, by Landsat 7, 2001.”
The Guardian buoys my spirits with a vision of low-pollution, lighter-than-air travel:
… Read the rest “Blimps build a better tomorrow.”The government’s former chief scientific adviser, Professor Sir David King, now director
Cold-blooded? Maybe. Warm-hearted? Definitely. Discover has the latest on how dinosaur moms used hot springs to keep the babies warm:
… Read the rest “Dinosaur incubators.”In the Cretaceous period over a hundred million years
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