A Holocentrus hastatum, or Sargocentron hastatus, or red soldier fish. They have big spines, you see.
This one comes from A Natural History of Fish, by Georges Cuvier and M. Valenciennes,… Read the rest “Science Art: Holocentre à grosses épines, from Histoire Naturelle des Poissons, Volume 3, 1828”
Those questions were raised in, of all publications, Astrobiology Magazine. Why are astrobiologists so concerned about human culture? Because if civilizations can really die out, that… Read the rest “Utopia or catastrophe: How long do civilizations live? (And how can we find another?)”
National Geographic looks into the caves and reports on the earliest artists’ small, beautiful hands:
… Read the rest “Cave artists mostly feminine.”Archaeologist Dean Snow of Pennsylvania State University analyzed hand
Sweden’s The Local rewrites history with a pre-Viking farm that they’re calling “shocking”:
… Read the rest “After the Ice Age, the farmers came”“It is completely unique,” Jan Heinerud at Västerbotten’s
BBC discusses the challenges faced by Rodrigo Souza, a man who’s dedicated himself to saving an endangered species – the lethal, heat-seeking venomous snake called the Atlantic… Read the rest “Save the (10-foot-long, venomous) snakes!”
No, not quoting that classical sot Li Bai, but the (mostly) sober-minded folks at Outside, who are now celebrating Dogfish Head’s latest special beer… made with moon dust … Read the rest “This beer has the moon in it.”
Yep. Virgin Galactic has announced that it’s sending a reality TV show contestant into space while cameras roll:
… Read the rest “Reality TV colonizes space.”“Space Race” is a groundbreaking, elimination competition series
Space.com reveals the weirdness of water – neither ice, nor liquid, nor vapor – found on a faraway planet:
… Read the rest “A Super-Earth (with Plasma Water Skies).”Astronomers have determined that the atmosphere of super-Earth
Nature has the details on the bionic limb wired to an amputee’s nerves:
… Read the rest “Mind-controlled robot leg. An actual one. Not made up.”A 32-year-old man whose knee and lower leg were amputated in 2009 after a motorcycle accident is apparently
Says it all right there. You want to see inside the world’s largest particle accelerator? Street View will take you into the underground tunnels:
… Read the rest “Google Street View goes inside the Large Hadron Collider.”We’re delighted that CERN opened
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