BBC has an up-close look at the tiny, primitive face of the great-great-great-great-etc. grandaddy of anything with a backbone:
… Read the rest “All mouth, no butt: Scientists find the ancestor of all vertebrates (like us).”They say that fossilised traces of the 540-million-year-old
This is a map of something invisible – ocean currents – made indirectly – by releasing messages in bottles and seeing where they land, based on who sent… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig 172 – Results of Dr. Fulton’s Drift-Bottle Experiments in the North Sea, 1912.”
CPH Post Online reveals the discovery, by Moesgaard Museum scientists, of 3,500-year-old treasure in Kuwait:
… Read the rest “Engraved Gems of Ancient Kuwait”Danish archaeologists have been working on the tiny island of Failaka off
New Scientist introduces us to a fearsome creature (thankfully no longer among us) that ruled the prehistoric Romanian skies like a flying tyrannosaur:
… Read the rest “In the days of Transylvania’s flying T. rexes….”New fossils now indicate some giant
That’s in the “radio silence” sense, not in the sense of “shuttering their windows” or “turning bleak.” Not yet, anyway. Buzzfeed reported… Read the rest “Government research bodies are going dark.”
SONG: “By Numbers.”
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SOURCE:Germany to probe Nazi-era medical science,” Science, 5 Jan 2017, as used in the post “Scientists start identifying… Read the rest “SONG: By Numbers”
Technology Review reports on a veritable horde of fake accounts – a network of 350,000 users – that have been ready to parrot messages en masse since 2013… from some interesting… Read the rest “MASSIVE botnet army discovered on Twitter… just… sitting there.”
From The Colliery Manager’s Handbook … Fourth edition, revised and enlarged, an 1898 book in the British Library’s public domain collection… Read the rest “Science Art: Lancashire Boiler with Galloway Tubes, 1898”
Science Daily follows astronomers who have found a planet 14 light-years away that’s in just the right spot – the “Goldilocks zone” around its star – to… Read the rest “Finding life on Wolf 1061”
Science Daily reveals a new molecular pathway the brain uses to regulate anxiety and depression – a discovery that opens the door for a new class of antidepressants:
… Read the rest “New way for antidepressants to work.”The research,
New Scientist covers a shark who managed to make babies despite being separated from any males:
… Read the rest “Life… finds a way. With a self-impregnating leopard shark.”Leonie the zebra shark (Stegostoma fasciatum) met her male partner at an aquarium in Townsville,
Science News didn’t get so poetic with their headline, but it amounts to the same thing. A team of astronomers has found a blaze of a specific wavelength of green light that shows the… Read the rest “The first galaxies burned with green fire.”
Nature shows how one of the simplest toys out there – a loop of string with a spinning bit of paper in the middle – can be used as a life-saving diagnostic device:
… Read the rest “This homemade toy saves lives.”Growing up in India,
Science Daily reveals a simpler, cheaper way to get excess carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere – by converting it to carbon crystals:
… Read the rest “Newer, easier way to capture carbon from the atmosphere”Scientists at the Department of Energy’s
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