So a shark, a hunter-gatherer and a honeybee walk into a bar…
…and they way they move, ScienceDaily says follows the same mathematical pattern: A mathematical pattern of movement called a Lévy walk describes the foraging behavior […]
Month: December 2013
Sailing satellites out of orbit
SEN reveals the poetic way we’re planning to keep tomorrow’s satellites from turning into space junk: In low orbits, there is still sufficient atmosphere to […]
Science Art: Plate 721: Mus minor, Souris; Mus major, Rat from … well, ostensibly Description, vertus et usages de sept cents dix-neuf plantes…,
Rodents, as appearing in a book of medicinal herbs (619 of them?) by Etienne-Francois Geoffroy and Francois Alexandre de Garsault. Or so BioDiv Library would […]
Latin American diabetes risk traced to Neanderthal ancestors.
BBC has more on one unfortunate modern human inheritance from our ancestors interbreeding with Neanderthals: The gene variant was detected in a large genome-wide association […]
Exomoon spotted. Maybe. (And, well, it probably won’t happen again.)
Nature celebrates (sort of) a discovery that makes it just a smidge more likely that there’s life somewhere else out there – a little blip […]
SONG: “Like a Rooster at Dawn”
SONG: “Like A Rooster At Dawn” [Download] (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on
Drill two holes in your head and see me in the morning.
PhysOrg takes a deeper look at the reasons why prehistoric doctors poked holes in their patients’ heads: However, evidence shows that healers in Peru practiced […]
Astronauts to use space snorkels.
Reuters reports on an innovative response to a space helmet malfunction: U.S. spacewalks have been suspended since July after a spacesuit helmet worn by Italian […]
Polynesian polynomials? Islanders counted in binary.
Nature has more on the math whizzes of the South Pacific: Binary arithmetic, the basis of all virtually digital computation today, is usually said to […]
Water on Mars. Not traces, but actual wet stuff.
Nature has reached the point where they’re worrying about how clean we can keep our ships and rovers, so they don’t track our chemicals all […]
Science Art: Theoria Lunae from Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius.
Click to embiggen In 1660, Dutch-German cartographer Andreas Cellarius created an atlas of the stars. This map shows how people thought the moon moved in […]
Duck-billed dinosaur redrawn – because they had “rooster-like” combs.
New Scientist imagines a fabulous new look for Edmontosaurus (the platypus of the dinosaur era) based on a new fossil finding – the duck-billed dinosaurs […]
Everybody ages… well, except when they don’t. Meet the Peter Pans.
Nature uncovers the secret lives of creatures that never grow old: A comparison of standardized demographic patterns across 46 species, published today in Nature, suggests […]
Martian Lake: Life was (probably) here.
Reuters reports on Curiosity’s latest discovery – the dried bed of what was apparently once a mucky, life-filled lake on Mars: The lake, located inside […]
Trauma can be inherited.
Shades of Philip Larkin…. Washington Post has more on how mice, at least, pass fear down with their DNA: In the experiment, researchers taught male […]