There’s water ice on another planet. Not Mars. Pluto.
NASA’s Deep Horizons has found traces of good ol’ H2O on that dwarf planet at the fringe of the solar system: In a second significant […]
Month: October 2015
The third kind of lie: science vs. p-hacking.
Fusion goes beyond the three kinds of lies (“Lies, damned lies, and statistics,” according to… someone) and into the awful implications of trusting the data […]
Spacesuits made… sexy?
Slate (not The Onion) dishes on the Victoria’s Secret designer looking at the next generation of form-fitting spacesuits: Perhaps nobody understands the intersection of aesthetics, […]
Cahokian human sacrifices picked local victims.
Western Digs reveals the latest discovery from the metropolis of middle America – where they practiced human sacrifice with their own citizens: But one of […]
Science Art: Five of Spades, from Playing Cards: Engineering
This is one of a whole deck of… well, they’re practically a technological tarot, really. They’re playing cards illustrating concepts in engineering. (The two of […]
If our diets alone are making us obese, why are vervet monkeys and mice overweight too?
Aeon asks some interesting questions about what’s really making us fatter – and why: As Richard L Atkinson, Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Nutritional Sciences […]
Mealworms can eat our plastic trash.
Science Alert (citing Environmental Science & Technology) shows us a new way to think about chucking out all that delicious “non-biodegradable” garbage: Researchers led by […]