Rural people have a better sense of direction.
Lancaster University researchers have studied folks who grew up in the country, in the suburbs, and in the city by analyzing their movements in a […]
Month: March 2022
Science Art: CSIRO’s ASKAP telescope continues to detect new FRBs…, 2020
This is an image of a thing that happens that is both very fast and also invisible. The colorful blocks are representations of “fast radio […]
SONG: Lost Aromas (A Rose)
SONG: “Lost Aromas (A Rose)”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Discover 25 Jan 2022, “Smells Are Going Extinct, So Researchers Are Working to Preserve Them,” as used […]
Big Dog is being outrun – by an emu-inspired BirdBot
Science reports on a Human Frontier Science Program project that is creating a more stable, more self-controlled walking robot by basing its motion on emus […]
Science Art: Lysiopetalum Cavernarum, Etc., Emerton & Packard, del., 1888.
This is a collection of bits and pieces (including “male genital armature” in 1s and 1t) of Pseudotremia cavernarum, the cave millipede. Yes, the researchers […]
The earliest North Americans were hanging out hunting horses in the Yukon 24,000 years ago.
Hakai Magazine (via Smithsonian) shares some discoveries from the Bluefish Caves in the northern Yukon, where archaeologists have unearthed clues to a whole human society […]
On the extinction of smells, and the attempt to preserve an aroma.
Discover reports on the growing field of “scent researchers” who are attempting to bring back smells that have long since gone away, and to record […]
We discovered a new kind of tarantula. It lives inside bamboo.
Science News has unfortunate news for arachnophobes who like relaxing in bamboo furniture. For the first time in more than a century, a new species […]
Science Art: Yearly Potato Production, from Natural History Magazine, March 1947.
In 1947, Natural History Magazine took a deep dive into potatoes – where they came from and where they’re going … and growing. The story […]
Russia’s war reaches into space, leaving an American astronaut potentially stranded.
ABC News reports on an unintended consequence of the war in Ukraine that’s creating a tricky situation far overhead. American astronaut Mark Vande Hei, currently […]
Venus of Willendorf actually not of Willdendorf – she’s Italian!
Archaeology Today has the news – heartwrenching to Austrians, joyous to Italians – that one of the world’s most famous figurines, the round-bodied Venus of […]
Science Art: Meda Songs, 1851
This is a chromolithograph by James Ackerman made of a watercolor by Seth Eastman who was copying an Ojibwe music board – a birchwood slab […]
Prehistoric pigment points to archaic brain trust.
Nature reports on the discovery of an unusually advanced settlement in East Asia. Around 40,000 years ago, when Denisovans, Neanderthals, and the very first Homo […]
“Difficult” bacteria has chainmail to protect it from antibiotics.
Science News reveals the secret that makes Clostridium difficile infections so tough to treat – an outer barrier called “the S layer” that protects the […]