Mystery DNA has something to do with our brains.
Scientific American brings us a baby step closer to understanding what a bunch of strange DNA – stuff that doesn’t directly shape our cells – […]
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Science Art: Sound Vibrations, 1892
Click to embiggen Seeing what we hear, in 1892. Did they have oscilloscopes in 1892? I don’t think they did. But they could visualize this. […]
Light pollution helps West Nile virus spread. (Go figure.)
Science Daily makes a fact-based plea to keep sparrows in the dark – because nighttime lighting makes the birds stay sick with West Nile – […]
500-year-old teeth reveal an unimaginably deadly epidemic.
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 […]
Hypatia: A stone older than the solar system
Popular Mechanics takes a long look at what, at first glance, might easily be dismissed as another Egyptian desert pebble – but is, in fact, […]
Science Art: Kircher’s fanciful design for a hydraulic organ, complete with dancing skeleton, from Musurgia Universalis, 1650.
Click to embiggen A hydraulic organ from the 17th century, as commemorated by Athanasius Kircher. It has a robotic skeleton! And a waterwheel! There are […]
Gel robotics for wearable muscles.
Science Daily reveals a breakthrough in wearable electronics, with flexible circuits that can move like muscle fibers and even help do your walking: A collaborative […]
Birds of prey are lighting wildfires. On purpose.
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 […]
SONG: “In Circles” (a penitential Einstürzende Neubauten cover)
SONG: “In Circles” (penitential cover) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for being late for the November song (which […]
Voter ID laws: the real science.
Wired has a longer look at researchers who’ve boldly taken on the thankless task of taking on the whole “voter ID” controversy with real data […]
Science Art: Momma Oryctrodromeus stays in the burrow with her babies…., by Julio Lacerda
Click to embiggen I found this on the Scientific Illustration tumblr, and though it seems to have been used in an Earth Archives article with […]
Ancient Americans came all at once – or so a baby’s DNA suggests.
Science looks at the mystery of when the first Americans arrived over the land bridge of Beringia, and have found some interesting clues in an […]
Climate change is stealing nutrients from food.
Science News has a series of studies that show rising CO2 levels and other climate disturbances are taking minerals and vitamins out of our vegetable […]
Science Art: Callorynchus antarctica, 1858.
An image that introduces Fishes and fishing : artificial breeding of fish, anatomy of their senses, their loves, passions, and intellects. With illustrative facts by […]
Stone tools show when we left Africa
Live Science reveals the simple treasures of Wadi Dabsa, where stone hand-axes, scrapers, spear-points and hammers are among a trove of relics that might show […]