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Sigh. Maybe a sweet potato *doesn’t* mean that prehistoric Polynesians visited South America after all.

18 April 2018 grant 0

The Guardian has some sweet potato evolutionary research that unintentionally drives a wedge in the idea that the presence of the humble yam in both […]

Chronotherapy is the discipline of giving medicine according to your body clock.

17 April 2018 grant 0

Nature explores the data being gathered about the surprising significance of time-of-day to effective medical treatment: More than four decades of studies describe how accounting […]

Science Art: Bearing Fault Detector, 1975

16 April 2018 grant 0

Click to embiggen NASA wants you to know they’re pretty handy here on Earth, too. This here shows a way to make trains and other […]

The Gulf Stream is weaker than it’s been for 1,600 years.

13 April 2018 grant 0

The Guardian looks at one of the less discussed elements of climate change – with a once-dependable ocean current slowing, slowing, slowing down in a […]

Giant genitals were the downfall of some ancient crustaceans

11 April 2018 grant 0

I can’t beat Nature‘s headline, so I won’t even try. “Giant genitals were the downfall of some ancient crustaceans.” The creatures from the Late Cretaceous […]

Extinct lizard had four eyes.

10 April 2018 grant 0

LiveScience introduces us to Saniwa ensidens, a now-extinct monitor lizard from Wyoming that had an eye on either side of its head and two more […]

Science Art: A View From A Launch, by NASA/Joel Kowsky

8 April 2018 grant 0

Click to embiggen This is the bus that takes the astronauts to work at the space station. It’s a long commute for a longer shift […]

A bit more evidence that Viking sunstones really worked.

4 April 2018 grant 0

PhysOrg returns to the sunstone – remember the sunstone? the calcite crystal that may have helped the Vikings plot courses at sea? that inspired this […]

Wind and solar (and batteries) could supply all of America’s power: Carnegie Science study

3 April 2018 grant 0

The Guardian looks at the journal Energy and Environmental Science to find out just how well the U.S. could handle switching over power supplies right […]

Take a pill, kill mosquitoes.

2 April 2018 grant 0

NPR recently ran a story on a new use for a fairly well-known drug, ivermectin. If you have a dog or cat (or horse or […]

Science Art: Growth of Egg of Hen, c. 16th century.

1 April 2018 grant 0

From De formatione ovi, et pulli, by Fabricius ab Aquapendente, also known as Hieronymus Fabricius or Girolamo Fabrizio d’Acquapendente. He was an Italian surgeon who […]

Scanner helmet lets brain patients move around. (And look like warriors from Krull.)

29 March 2018 grant 0

The Guardian has a game-changing invention for neurologists and anyone who needs a brain-scan done – a wearable helmet that lets you walk around – […]

Sitting on eggs is only for modern birds. Primeval birds did it differently.

27 March 2018 grant 0

Nature reveals the ins and outs of dinosaur-era reproductive strategies, with research showing that prehistoric birds were too heavy to incubate their own eggs: Most […]

They found Cao Cao’s grave.

26 March 2018 grant 0

South China Morning Post reports on the massive mausoleum of a legendary figure from Chinese history – the general Cao Cao, a character in the […]

Science Art: Kerr-Flaechen.gif (Ergospheres, Event horizons and the ring singularity of a rotating black hole.)

25 March 2018 grant 0

This is an animated gif showing a ring singularity or “ringularity” of a spinning black hole. A black hole that doesn’t spin will collapse into […]

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