The toothy mega-albatross
Science Friday remembers the mysteriously vanished pelagornithids – birds that, we now know, once ruled the skies with toothy beaks and a wingspan twice the […]
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Science Art: Cloud Vortices off Isla Socorro (Detail) by NASA Goddard Photo and Video
Click to embiggen On May 25, 2010 at 17 :35 UTC, this was the weather off the North Pacific island called Isla Socorro: Partly cloudy […]
Our oldest art is a picture of a pig.
The Guardian (among other sources) reports on cave paintings on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi that push back the earliest known art made by Homo […]
A pacemaker for your brain.
Discover surveys the state of the research into deep-brain stimulation (DBS), using electrical implants to treat conditions from Parkinson’s to chronic pain, OCD, depression and […]
Science Art: Gryllus: Gryllus formosus, Gryllus hirtipes, Gryllus trifasciatus.
Handsome field crickets. That’s not a name for them, just me admiring them. Gryllus is a genus of field crickets. Once, they were all put […]
Baby bees keep their moms up all night, too.
Scientific American‘s 60-Second Science recently covered the neurology of parenthood, revealing how sleep deprivation for caregivers extends to insects as well: Researchers found that worker […]
Salome’s dance floor – where John the Baptist was condemned to death – has been uncovered. We think.
LiveScience brings together sordid incestuous subtext, capital punishment, judicial critique, scripture, Oscar Wilde, and of course archaeology in a single story of an excavation on […]
Science Art: Perihelion Parts of Orbits of the August and November Meteor-showers
Click to embiggen Where the meteors come from in August and November, as pictured in A new astronomy for beginners, 1898, as found on archive.org. […]
The same genes that protect against Ebola also protect against COVID-19.
The Scientist has some satisfying news to ring in the New Year. The same genetic mechanism that boosts immunity to one lethal pandemic – the […]
Defrosting a woolly rhino (and its last supper).
Siberian Times has breaking news from practically before modern humans existed, when a baby woolly rhino got frozen in the permafrost layer that’s only melting […]
Kangaroos intentionally communicate with humans.
Sci-News.com wants all of us to know that kangaroos, despite never having been domesticated, still want to let us know what they’re thinking: …[S]aid lead […]
Science Art: Lamprometra protectus, ventral view of a specimen with 23 arms from Stat. 125., 1918
This is a crinoid, a cousin to sea urchins, sea cucumbers and starfish. I suppose some of them have stalks like sea anemones, but these […]
NASA’s Mars rover trains for “seven minutes of terror.”
BBC shares a video showing how February’s Perseverance Mars rover mission plans to start with an automated landing sequence engineers have dubbed “the seven minutes […]
SONG: Iron in the Sky
SONG: “Iron in the Sky” [Download] ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on sss, 19 Nov 2020,
Male crickets use leaves to make themselves seem bigger… in THAT way, yes.
Science News brings attention to male shortcomings and the gender’s creativity in overcoming them with a story about crickets who use leaves as megaphones, amplifying […]