Humans: warming the globe for 15,000 years.
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 […]
Month: July 2010
Science Art: Giovanni de Dondi’s Astrarium, 1364.
This is a modern tracing of a 1461 illustration of a 1364 drawing of a mechanical clock that represented the movement of the universe.
Leonardo da Vinci: Paleontologist.
Smithsonian reveals yet another secret talent from the original Renaissance man. He was a forefather of fossil science: In a new paper in the journal […]
Addicted to heartbreak
The same circuit that controls your jonesin’ for just one more is also, the American Physiological Society says, in charge of your heartbreak: The pain […]
We’re gonna need a bigger boat. MUCH bigger.
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 […]
Song of the God Particle.
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 […]
Science Art: Venice, Italy, by Landsat 7, 2001.
Click to embiggen vastly Funny how Venice itself looks like Venetian glass from far enough away, ain’t it? From NASA’s Landsat 7 archive. Happy birthday, […]
Blimps build a better tomorrow.
The Guardian buoys my spirits with a vision of low-pollution, lighter-than-air travel: The government’s former chief scientific adviser, Professor Sir David King, now director of […]
Dinosaur incubators.
Cold-blooded? Maybe. Warm-hearted? Definitely. Discover has the latest on how dinosaur moms used hot springs to keep the babies warm: In the Cretaceous period over […]