Pterodactyl treasure trove.
The Guardian takes us to Xinjiang, where paleontologists have opened a new window onto the past by unearthing an amazing trove of fossilized pterodactyl eggs: […]
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Ancient women had strong arms, say bone studies.
Science News demonstrates how the prehistoric agricultural revolution was fueled by women with mighty arm muscles: In the early stages of farming more than 7,000 […]
Ketamine fights depression in mice – when a *male researcher* administers it.
Nature dives into some pretty weird sex-based results in pharmacological studies of ketamine: The findings, presented on 14 November at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) […]
Antibiotic switches on with the lights.
Nature reports on a new class of germ-fighting drugs that are light-sensitive, so they become active when the lights go on: A drug that can […]
Science Art: De XII Afbeelding (Banana) by Maria Sibylla Merian
Click to embiggen At the end of the 17th century, this was some weird and wild stuff – a fruit that in the Americas, they […]
Thanksgiving Theremin: Handel’s “As When the Dove,” by Peter Pringle
Pringle’s dedication is absolutely admirable. From his description: There is a lot of very fast fingering and some extended baroque trills in this piece which […]
Thanksgiving Theremin: Ennio Morricone’s “The Ecstasy of Gold,” by Carolina Eyck.
We’ve had Eyck on here before, but not like this:
No song today.
Or at least, no original. I’ve got a bass line and a smattering of lyrics, but still haven’t replaced the laptop, so recording has been […]
China’s ready to make first contact with aliens.
The Atlantic has a great piece on the E.T.-hunting radio telescope that China just built (it’s twice the size of Arecibo) with a little input […]
“Brain training” video game beats dementia in trials.
Indiana University psychology researchers have definitely proved, after 10 years of study, that a particular kind of video game, as part of a brief brain-training […]
Science Art: Jupiter: A New Point of View, by Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran
Click to embiggen This is a sidelong look at the king of planets from NASA’s Image of the Day gallery. The NASA folks say: This […]
Spanking makes their behavior worse
Science Daily has more on the Texas and Virginia researchers who looked over 12,112 kids’ experiences growing up and concluded spanking – free of all […]
We just sent a message to a habitable planet.
New Scientist explains that the recipients, if there are any, could answer in about 25 years – enough time for a radio message to travel […]
FDA OKs putting tracking devices in schizophrenia pills. (Yes. They really did.)
New York Times has the latest high-water mark in our society’s ever-rising tide of irony – an antipsychotic medication that, as paranoid as this sounds, […]
Science Art: Representations of the Braid Groups by Nancy Scherich, overall winner, Dance Your Ph.D. 2017.
“A representation is faithful if it has only one braid in its kernel.” So, this is doctorate-level mathematics rendered as interpretative dance, and that is […]