The Guardian reports on a new discovery shedding light on the ancient mystery of Stonehenge – by showing us where the megalithic architects lived – and made their massive plans… Read the rest “Stonehenge architects slept here.”
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Money! Monkey money!
This is some currency art done in niobium and silver, honoring the discipline of evolutionary biology. I don’t think it has any *actual* DNA… Read the rest “Science Art: 2014 Evolutionary Biology – Austrian 25 Euro, designed by Helmut Andexlinger.”
Science News gets the answers on what suddenly killed 200,000 saiga antelopes in 2015:
… Read the rest “Here’s what killed all those antelopes on the steppes. It’s warmer now.”“If you come at dawn and dusk, it’s magical,” says E.J. Milner-Gulland, a conservation biologist
Of course. Of course. The Guardian reveals that orcas can use human speech when it suits them:
… Read the rest “Killer whales speak human. A little.”New research reveals that orcas are able to imitate human speech, in some cases at the first attempt,
More astronaut optimism, less everything else.
From the NASA Image HQ Flickr account:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Expedition 54 flight engineer Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), by NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepi, Dec. 17, 2017.”Expedition 54 flight engineer Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration
The American Council on Health and Social Science looks at the epidemiology of human behavior – and things we want to believe – by finding what riots, flu and “fake news”… Read the rest “Riots spread like viruses spread like “fake news.””
Scientific American brings us a baby step closer to understanding what a bunch of strange DNA – stuff that doesn’t directly shape our cells – shared by all vertebrates… Read the rest “Mystery DNA has something to do with our brains.”
Seeing what we hear, in 1892. Did they have oscilloscopes in 1892? I don’t think they did. But they could visualize this.
At any rate, I found this via Nemfrog in Sound… Read the rest “Science Art: Sound Vibrations, 1892”
Science Daily makes a fact-based plea to keep sparrows in the dark – because nighttime lighting makes the birds stay sick with West Nile – and contagious – about twice… Read the rest “Light pollution helps West Nile virus spread. (Go figure.)”
Popular Science checks the dental records to get to the cause of a mysterious sickness that killed up to 15 million people in only three years:
… Read the rest “500-year-old teeth reveal an unimaginably deadly epidemic.”Red spots appeared on the skin, accompanied
Popular Mechanics takes a long look at what, at first glance, might easily be dismissed as another Egyptian desert pebble – but is, in fact, a meteorite fragment older than our planet,… Read the rest “Hypatia: A stone older than the solar system”
A hydraulic organ from the 17th century, as commemorated by Athanasius Kircher. It has a robotic skeleton! And a waterwheel!
There are some more wondrous instruments … Read the rest “Science Art: Kircher’s fanciful design for a hydraulic organ, complete with dancing skeleton, from Musurgia Universalis, 1650.”
Science Daily reveals a breakthrough in wearable electronics, with flexible circuits that can move like muscle fibers and even help do your walking:
… Read the rest “Gel robotics for wearable muscles.”A collaborative research team has
Not that we didn’t have enough to worry about, but Science Alert has, uh, alerted us to the science showing that three species of Australian raptors are picking up burning sticks to… Read the rest “Birds of prey are lighting wildfires. On purpose.”
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