Neanderthal dentistry
PhysOrg has one more thing Neanderthals had that we have too – dental care:
… Read the rest “Neanderthal dentistry”A discovery of multiple toothpick grooves on teeth and signs of other manipulations by a Neanderthal of
PhysOrg has one more thing Neanderthals had that we have too – dental care:
… Read the rest “Neanderthal dentistry”A discovery of multiple toothpick grooves on teeth and signs of other manipulations by a Neanderthal of
National Geographic is following the Amelia Earhart research group TIGHAR – the same group that held the chilling experiments involving coconut crabs and pig carcasses –… Read the rest “Sniffing out Amelia Earhart’s bones… with dogs.”
A poster recruiting colonists to Mars. A bit early, sure, but it can’t hurt to be ready.
Though I wonder how welding would really work in a low-oxygen atmosphere.… Read the rest “Science Art: Some User Assembly Required, NASA “Mars Explorers Wanted” collection.”
SONG: “Nine Dangshen Flowers”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE:China’s quantum satellite achieves ‘spooky action’ at record distance,” Science, 15 Jun 2017, as used in the… Read the rest “SONG: Nine Dangshen Flowers”
Science Daily investigates what makes “the peculiar” so peculiarly easy to remember:
… Read the rest “Memory is peculiar. And peculiar is memorable.”It’s this notion of ‘peculiarity’ that can help us understand
Nature examines a tree that was alive in the time of Napoleon, yet has DNA that’s remarkably free of the usual damage of aging:
… Read the rest “Very old oak; pretty young genes.”Each time a cell divides, mutations can arise because
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Ooo! Everyone loves a party!
This is a protein, though, not a party decoration. The full title of this image (or, really, description) is “Top view of ribbon diagram… Read the rest “Science Art: Top view of ribbon diagram of ribonuclease inhibitor (PDB accession code 2BNH). ”
Science magazine reports on the latest Chinese space breakthrough – one that could lead to instant communication with distant spaceships, or hack-proof communications here on… Read the rest “Here’s your sub-space radio: China gets quantum entanglement to work from orbit.”
Science Daily reports on a hurdle being cleared on the way to wirelessly charging a moving electric vehicle:
… Read the rest “How to charge an electric car on the road.”If electric cars could recharge while driving down a highway, it would virtually
Popular Science is trying to figure out if you can teach a robin to sing like a swallow, or a warbler to tweet like a canary… and, as far as researchers David Wheatcroft & Anna Qvarnström… Read the rest “Birds’ songs are in their genes.”
Wildflower and fruit, from two 16th-century Europeans.
More specifically:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Medlar, Poppy Anenome, Pear by Hoefnagel and Bocskay, 1561-2.”Medlar, Poppy Anenome, Pear ( 1561 – 1562 ).
Watercolour, gold and silver paint, and ink on parchment
Nature turns the origins of modern humans – not Neanderthals, not Denisovans, but Homo sapiens like you and me – back more than 100,000 years, and a long way from where they should… Read the rest “The oldest Homo sapiens are from Morocco. And pretty darn old.”
Nature looks at another way personalized treatments could save lives – by taking into account how different people’s gut bacteria affect drugs differently:
… Read the rest “Your gut bacteria could neutralize your cancer medication.”Bacteria living
So much depends on perspective.
Image from the European Space Agency – taken by Cassini on its way to Saturn, and doing a little prep work, a little early investigating,… Read the rest “Science Art: Cassini’s view of Jupiter’s southern hemisphere, 2014”
Science Daily gets muscle augmentation away from the whole “real-life Iron Man” thing with news of what looks like a pair of robotic shorts… a hip-helping soft, tethered… Read the rest “Soft exosuit boosts runners’ performance”
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