Science Daily reveals the record-breaking brooding period of the deep-sea octopus:
… Read the rest “Four years an expectant mother. Eight arms to hug them.”In May 2007, during one of these surveys, the researchers discovered a female octopus clinging to a
Nature shares satellite data that shows not only lakes, rivers and reservoirs shrinking across the whole U.S. Southwest, but even water underground is going away:
… Read the rest “The West is drying up.”To track groundwater
That’s what Sci-News.com and Science Daily are reporting that University of Toronto researchers have found. A trove of thousands of really really old tools:
… Read the rest “1,000,000-year-old tools.”Science Daily
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Translation: The Englishman Watt wanted to make a steam engine. He spent so much time on it that he upset his aunt. Finally, however, he was successful.
From Public Domain… Read the rest “Science Art: The Englishman Watt wanted to make a steam engine…, 1873.”
Investors are (quietly, says Scientific American) lining up support for companies figuring out the ins and outs of nuclear fusion:
… Read the rest “Fusion attracts cash.”…[T]he fragments of information that have filtered
SONG: “Step Into The Sky.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “A new raptorial dinosaur with exceptionally… Read the rest “SONG: “Step Into The Sky””
Yep. Scientific American has more on a painful consequence of temperatures swinging upward unexpectedly:
… Read the rest “Climate change means… more kidney stones?”In a study published earlier this month in the journal Environmental Health
Ever feel congested? Here’s where it happens – the paranasal sinuses. These ones are under your eyes. And the artery we’re specifically looking at here comes from the… Read the rest “Science Art: Figure Showing Anterior Ethmoidal Artery, 2013.”
Salk Institute scientists have discovered an injectable protein that reverses diabetes for two days:
… Read the rest “An injection reverses type-2 diabetes (temporarily). No insulin required.”In mice with diet-induced diabetes — the equivalent of type 2 diabetes in humans
Science Daily has more on the prehistoric plaque that’s teaching us about our ancestors’ diets:
… Read the rest “Unbrushed teeth left a message for the future”The research was carried out at Al Khiday, a pre-historic site on the White
Q (from Nature): What’s 100 cm long, has long feathers and flew with four wings?
… Read the rest “A: Prehistory’s largest micro-raptor. (Four wings!)”Here we describe a new ‘four-winged’ microraptorine, Changyuraptor yangi, from the Early Cretaceous
Nature reports that the Centers for Disease Control have ceased all shipments of infectious disease pathogens until they can get them shipped right:
… Read the rest “CDC: Stop shipping that flu around!”Workers at the US Centers for Disease
New Scientist locates the specific place where knowledge and self-awareness sits – in a brain region called the claustrum:
… Read the rest “Scientists find where consciousness happens.”In a study published last week, Mohamad Koubeissi at the
Tennis, a different perspective. From All About the Human Body, 1958, found in the reference library of Newhouse Design.
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The Guardian opens the classicists’ bathroom door to reveal a Greek discovery – world’s oldest erotic graffiti:
… Read the rest “This is the world’s oldest smutty graffiti.”Certainly, Dr Andreas Vlachopoulos, a specialist
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