PhysOrg reports on the discovery of a prehistoric predator who puts the terrifying dinosaurs of Jurassic Park to shame … a Chinese cousin of velociraptor who hunted the ancestors… Read the rest “A four-winged velociraptor hunted prehistoric birds”
There’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. Belgrand.)”. This is engineering from the third quarter… Read the rest “Science Art: Égouts de Paris, by Jules Ferat.”
Nature finds that a single stressful event — like a job interview, a thesis defense, or a car accident — affects our brains in a way that makes it harder for memories to stick to… Read the rest “Stress disconnects our memories.”
STAT shared the words of a frustrated cardiac dietitian who is personally exhausted by the public panic over seed oils, which, depending on how you look at them, really are healthier than… Read the rest “Seed oils are better than beef, actually.”
I found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is actually a detail from the full image, which includes… Read the rest “Science Art: Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, by David K. Stone.”
SONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack of Social Connection May Have Played A Big Role In Their Extinction”… Read the rest “SONG: Alone”
Mashable reports on astrobiology research that may have found a simpler (and, importantly, more portable) way to detect traces of life on alien planets … by measuring up amounts … Read the rest “A new (easier) way to detect alien life.”
This is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But this isn’t the eye. It’s the alimentary canal, the guts,… Read the rest “Science Art: Fowler – Coregonus Nelsonii Bean.”
Or maybe “loner-ism.” IFL Science reports on new research showing that what might have led to the demise of Neanderthals as a distinct kind of human was the lack of a social network… Read the rest “Neanderthals died out from something like loneliness”
Relax, the spider is here to soothe you. Tampa Bay Times reported on Daniel Park, who won a state-wide science competition by using his computers to design a drug candidate for treating anxiety… Read the rest “A Florida high schooler got anxiety meds from tarantua venom.”
This is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wikipedia, which also, helpfully, says a *circular* paraboloid … Read the rest “Science Art: Paraboloide Circular 02, by Rodrigo Argenton”
Science reports on a conservation project that’s also helping some of the poorest people on the planet — villagers along the Juruá River, a western tributary of the Amazon … Read the rest “Brazilian villages make a good living protecting a giant fish”
IFL Science reports on the (beautiful) discovery of a (well-preserved) butterfly from 34 million years ago … a specimen with visible, identifiable wing patterns and veins that … Read the rest “The Earliest Emperor Butterfly”
This is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically described and illustrated, by Phillip T. Sandhurst, which you can leaf through … Read the rest “Science Art: Azimuth and Altitude Instrument, c. 1876”
BBC’s Science Focus is digging in the dirt to get inside the mystery of “dark earth,” which seems to make the Amazon as fertile as it is… though no one knows how it… Read the rest “Trees grow six times taller in strange Amazonian soil.”
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