Four years an expectant mother. Eight arms to hug them.
Science Daily reveals the record-breaking brooding period of the deep-sea octopus: In May 2007, during one of these surveys, the researchers discovered a female octopus […]
Month: July 2014
The West is drying up.
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: […]
1,000,000-year-old tools.
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: Science […]
Science Art: The Englishman Watt wanted to make a steam engine…, 1873.
Click to embiggen Translation: The Englishman Watt wanted to make a steam engine. He spent so much time on it that he upset his aunt. […]
Fusion attracts cash.
Investors are (quietly, says Scientific American) lining up support for companies figuring out the ins and outs of nuclear fusion: …[T]he fragments of information that […]
SONG: “Step Into The Sky”
SONG: “Step Into The Sky.” [Download] (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “A new raptorial dinosaur with exceptionally long […]
Climate change means… more kidney stones?
Yep. Scientific American has more on a painful consequence of temperatures swinging upward unexpectedly: In a study published earlier this month in the journal Environmental […]
Science Art: Figure Showing Anterior Ethmoidal Artery, 2013.
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 […]
An injection reverses type-2 diabetes (temporarily). No insulin required.
Salk Institute scientists have discovered an injectable protein that reverses diabetes for two days: In mice with diet-induced diabetes — the equivalent of type 2 […]
Unbrushed teeth left a message for the future
Science Daily has more on the prehistoric plaque that’s teaching us about our ancestors’ diets: The research was carried out at Al Khiday, a pre-historic […]
A: Prehistory’s largest micro-raptor. (Four wings!)
Q (from Nature): What’s 100 cm long, has long feathers and flew with four wings? Here we describe a new ‘four-winged’ microraptorine, Changyuraptor yangi, from […]
CDC: Stop shipping that flu around!
Nature reports that the Centers for Disease Control have ceased all shipments of infectious disease pathogens until they can get them shipped right: Workers at […]
Scientists find where consciousness happens.
New Scientist locates the specific place where knowledge and self-awareness sits – in a brain region called the claustrum: In a study published last week, […]
Science Art: Two hundred bones form the framework of your body, 1958.
Click to embiggen Tennis, a different perspective. From All About the Human Body, 1958, found in the reference library of Newhouse Design. [via]
This is the world’s oldest smutty graffiti.
The Guardian opens the classicists’ bathroom door to reveal a Greek discovery – world’s oldest erotic graffiti: Certainly, Dr Andreas Vlachopoulos, a specialist in prehistoric […]