Mock weapons from the Iron Age
Science Daily pores over the mysterious discovery of a collection of non-functional metal weapons from more than 2,600 years ago: Discovered in 2009, the site […]
Month: March 2016
A remarkable woman, 2,500 years ago.
The Times of Israel reports on an unusual discovery – a small seal (as in wax-and-envelope, not as in hunted-in-Arctic) that belonged to a powerful […]
China goes green.
Amid news of massive layoffs and financial uncertainty, New Scientist sheds a ray of hope on the Middle Kingdom, reporting on China’s new five-year plan […]
More orangutans than we thought.
BBC has hope for the wild men of the woods. A new population study has found more than double the number of Sumatran orangutans as […]
Science Art: LEAF Sound Horn, by ESA – A. Le Floc’h
Click to embiggen This is a big horn for making big noise. It’s the way the European Space Agency tests how satellites stand up to […]
At Marlon Brando’s island, the war on mosquitos is being won.
Stat goes to the front-line laboratories in French Polynesia, where scientists are beating back mosquitos in revolutionary ways: Hervé Bossin and his team have released […]
Why are American kids getting so good at higher math?
The Atlantic investigates the social movement behind America’s recent surprise win at the international Math Olympiad: You wouldn’t see it in most classrooms, you wouldn’t […]
Fossilized nerves.
Washington Post reports on an impossible-seeming thing – a fossil that’s not just of hard tissue like teeth and bones (and shells), but that reveals […]