We found some runes by the railway….
LiveScience reports on Norwegian railway construction workers who found a whetstone carved with a (relatively rare) runic inscription: Runic writing was used in Norway and […]
Month: December 2017
Science Art: The Great Telescope, Melbourne Observatory
Click to embiggen Look up! I’m not sure exactly what the story is behind this image, because it’s part of the bewildering-but-great (and partially mechanically […]
Pterodactyl treasure trove.
The Guardian takes us to Xinjiang, where paleontologists have opened a new window onto the past by unearthing an amazing trove of fossilized pterodactyl eggs: […]