Science News gets up close and personal with Daspletosaurus horneri, a 9-meter-long prehistoric predator which hunted 75 million years ago with the help of a remarkably sensitive side… Read the rest “New tyrannosaur species had a sensitive face.”
Science News looks at how much Americans *think* the government is paying to fund research. If scientists got what people thought they should get, the total would be a pay increase, not a … Read the rest “The government is already paying less for science than you think (probably).”
Nature tries to solve a nearly intractable chicken-and-egg problem for evolutionary biologists. Which is the oldest kind of animal, a sponge or a comb jelly? They’re both simple… Read the rest “Which came first, the sponge or the jelly? (We might have an answer.)”
A finger-bone from the other archaic humans – besides Neanderthals, there were Denisovans. And one of the fragments we know them from looked like this, found in a cave in what’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Denisova Phalanx distalis”
SONG: “The Ring I Made For You (A Time-Crystal Canon).”
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SOURCE:The quest to crystallize time,” Nature, 8 Mar 2017, as used in the post “
‘It’s… Read the rest “SONG: The Ring I Made For You (A Time-Crystal Canon)”
National Geographic reports on China’s boom in marine parks, including a new program to breed killer whales in captivity:
… Read the rest “America stopped breeding orcas; China just started.”The Chimelong Group, one of the country’s biggest amusement
Science News reveals the unappetizing trick of a newly discovered gecko species. The lizard sheds its large scales to wriggle out of predators’ mouths:
… Read the rest “Scale-shedding gecko a nasty mouthful for predators”All species of Geckolepis
This is Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov (or call-sign “Ruby”), the first man to die in space. He’d been denied admission to the space program twice … Read the rest “Science Art: Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov, Voskhod 1, 4-kopek stamp, 1964”
Science Daily sniffs out how weather patterns affect the shape of our family’s noses:
… Read the rest “Our noses were shaped by the climate.”“We are interested in recent human evolution and what explains the evident variation
PhysOrg reports on the discovery that sharks aren’t quite the “lone wolves of the sea” that they seem. In fact, sharks form social networks and share strategies to avoid… Read the rest “Sharks are teaming up to outwit us.”
Science Daily finds that those who give back also seem to be getting back – because people who volunteer for causes are in better health than the rest of us:
… Read the rest “Volunteers are healthier. (They also tend to be richer.)”Researchers of Ghent University
A train! A big ol’ train!
This image is one of many found in H.A.V. Bulleid’s Master Builders of Steam, a book about those big ol’ engines moving big ol’… Read the rest “Science Art: Longitudinal Section of “Star” Class Four-Cylinder 4-6-0, by AJ Creswell, 1963.”
Science Daily takes time out to think about our thinking parts, which are doing 10 times more thinking than we previously thought:
… Read the rest “Our brains are 10 times busier than we thought.”The research focused on the structure and function of dendrites,
Nature describes how “dirty diamonds” (and other delights) can be used to make crystals that “pulse” without using any energy:
… Read the rest ““It’s still fricking weird”: Physicist on the creation of time crystals.”The name sounds like a prop from
Scientific American prepares us for our cybernetic overlords with a machine that knows when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em… how to call a bluff and how to read a strong… Read the rest “Chess, go… and now, a computer has beaten humans at POKER.”
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