Sounds almost medieval, doesn’t it? But no, it’s not the vapors. BBC shows how dormant viruses and bacteria are waking up after centuries or even millennia under the ice:
… Read the rest “Melting permafrost is releasing ancient diseases.”In
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“Internal view of a Pratt & Whitney J58 afterburner and exhaust nozzle.”
Found on Wikimedia Commons.
New Scientist has the creepy story of a parasitic worm that controls fish behavior by controlling how they see the world:
… Read the rest “Puppetmaster parasite steers fish – from inside their eyeballs.”When the parasite is young, it helps its host stay safe from predators.
Nature shines new light on a very old hominid – “Neo,” the ape-like Homo naledi who may have coexisted with early modern humans:
… Read the rest “Humans didn’t live with dinosaurs… but maybe with ape-men.”H. naledi was uncovered in the Rising
This is the head and neck of a raven, Corvus corax sinuatus, as dissected and drawn by Robert W. Shufeldt.
I look at this and am impressed by the beauty of the anatomy. Then … Read the rest “Science Art: The Myology of the Raven, 1890”
Science News shows how Mars might not have formed with the rest of solid worlds of the inner solar system:
… Read the rest “Mars might be a *really* alien planet.”Simulating the assembly of the solar system around 4.56 billion years ago, researchers
Science News looks at broken bones – specifically, how modern bone breaks seem so different from the injuries we see in Neanderthal skeletons. Why should modern tree-climbing, … Read the rest “The closest we come to getting Neanderthal injuries? Water-tubing.”
Nature reveals the remains of a 130,000-year-old barbecue… that opens a controversial – and way, way older – chapter of human history in the Americas:
… Read the rest “Humans reached America 100,000 years earlier than thought.”Most scientists
This is a “more definitely suctorial mouth with horny cuticular teeth,” according to Francis Maitland Balfour, a British biologist with a particularly distinguished name… Read the rest “Science Art: Mouth of Petromyzon Marinus with its Horny Teeth,”
Science Daily listens close to baby humpback whales whispering to their mothers:
… Read the rest “Whispering baby whales.”Ecologists from Denmark and Australia used temporary tags on humpback mothers and their calves in Exmouth
This is a little “inside baseball,” but I’m as much thrilled by Open Culture‘s description of this archive as I am by the existence of the archive itself. It does… Read the rest “NASA releases 140,000 images, videos, and sounds.”
Sigh.
I’m most of the way through one, but the words didn’t fall together even after the chorus turned up.
One will follow soon, along with a penitential cover.
This is Jupiter’s watery (well, icy) moon Europa, as pieced together in realistic color from a bunch of photos taken by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in the 1990s.… Read the rest “Science Art: PIA19048 realistic color Europa mosaic (from the Galileo mission).”
Nature is gearing up for small engines going… well, pretty fast for their size. Because these chemists are racing single-molecule nanocars:
… Read the rest “A teeny, tiny NASCAR.”Six teams from three continents are
New York Times announces how one of America’s wealthiest computer scientists makes it possible to track where your tax money *really*, really goes:
… Read the rest “Microsoft’s Ballmer sics big data on government spending.”In an age of fake news and questions
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