Science reports on a reindeer study that’s been running a lot longer than this Christmas season. Researchers in the Arctic have found that reindeer have lost an average of 12% of their… Read the rest “Reindeer have been shrinking since 1994.”
Science Daily looks at the vacation habits of Neanderthals on Jersey:
… Read the rest “Jersey shore (the one in the English Channel) was a prehistoric tourist attraction for *millennia*.”As part of a re-examination of La Cotte de St Brelade and its surrounding landscape, archaeologists from Southampton,
BBC has, courtesy of the Fall Meeting of American Geophysical Union (AGU), a quarter-century of satellite images of Antarctica showing how the ice is shrinking, and where the melted water… Read the rest “Antarctic ice-loss: a 25-year-long look from space.”
Astronaut and astronaut nurse, getting ready to stick another metaphorical toe into the metaphorical water of the eternal icy void of space, just before the Mercury-Atlas… Read the rest “Science Art: Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. confers with astronaut nurse Dolores B. O’Hara, 1962”
Not that anything’s trying to get out. No, Live Science wouldn’t want us to panic needlessly over a gigantic crevice yawning wide across shrinking ice-fields of the least-understood… Read the rest “70-mile-long, 300-foot-wide crack opens in Antarctica.”
Nature salutes the gene-sequencing of the 10,600-year-old Spirit Cave Man – and his return to what we now know are his descendants, the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe:
… Read the rest “America’s oldest mummy is coming home – to Nevada.”The case follows
Science Daily looks at the neurons that rev up and those that spin down when different parts of your brain are used – a trick based on humans’ knack for “selective attention”… Read the rest “Bits of your brain are falling asleep and waking up right now.”
Look up just right, and this is what you’ll see.
From the “Sun In Time” page of the Solar Dynamics Observatory’s Atmospheric Imaging Assembly… Read the rest “Science Art: The Sun, December 4, 2016, Wavelengths 304-211-171”
Nature seems awfully optimistic about a program for recycling and processing “e-waste” in the Holy Land:
… Read the rest “Discarded computers could bring Israelis and Palestinians together”Electronics are dismantled in nearby villages as part of a massive
Scientific American is looking at what exactly the Tennessee wildfires might mean for our changing planet:
… Read the rest “Wildfires “Unlike Anything We’ve Ever Seen””A prolonged drought that has engulfed much of the Southeast created conditions
Nature reports on a critter in Iceland’s hot springs that binds silicon to carbon – which could lead to all sorts of weird breakthroughs:
… Read the rest “These germs join carbon to silicon.”Researchers have learned to bind carbon
Someone went to the museum today. This has always been one of my favorite bits of human anatomy, the spirals inside our sinuses. Evolutionarily, they say they’re… Read the rest “Science Art: Oral Cavity and Paranasal Sinuses – Coronal View exhibit, from Our Body: The Universe Within”
This cover came out in March this year, celebrating the anniversary of New Order’s 1983 hit. The idea was to remake the groundbreaking electronic song only using instruments –… Read the rest “Thanksgiving Theremin: “Blue Monday” by Orkestra Obsolete (New Order cover)”
SONG: “Blood is Family”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “Small Island, Big Experiment,” FiveThirtyEight Science, Oct 2016, as used in the post “Florida Keys… Read the rest “SONG: Blood is Family”
Popular Mechanics celebrates a plan to turn the nuclear disaster zone into a 1-gigawatt solar farm:
… Read the rest “Chernobyl goes solar.”The high levels of radiation make the zone unsuitable for typical land uses like agriculture
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