Eastern cougar: Extinct, officially.
The CBC – and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service – are confirming what scientists have suspected for a long time… that the Eastern cougar […]
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France – *France* – will save us all from the next killer asteroid.
Oh, yes. Nature tries to downplay it, but it’s the French who have launched an unprecedented meteor-spotting network to scan the skies: By the end […]
Lasers find lost Cambodian empire
Guardian reports on multiple medieval Cambodian cities that had been forgotten – evidence of an entire lost empire just discovered via LIDAR scans: The Australian […]
Science Art: An early map of the planet Mars, by Richard A. Proctor, 1867.
A map of the planet Mars by astronomer Richard A. Proctor. The names we use for features on Mars nowadays come from Giovanni Schiaparelli – […]
Listening to the music of the oldest stars.
Sci-News turns an ear to the heavens to learn about the oldest stars in the Milky Way – by listening to their acoustic oscillations: The […]
Apollo’s Hydromancer
Ha’aretz reports on the oldest oracle to Apollo found in Athens – a place where a sacred seer drew water from a well to divine […]
Leaping Electric Eels!
Science Daily reports on a not-terrifying-at-all accidental discovery, that electric eels are perfectly capable of jumping out of the water to deliver a lethal dose […]
Science Art: Inside the Spacecraft During Gemini V Flight, by L. Gordon Cooper/NASA
Click to embiggen Here’s astronaut Charles Conrad Jr. as snapped by mission commander L. Gordon Cooper Jr., the “Gordo” from The Right Stuff, if you […]
Prisoners used in *data-harvesting* experiment.
Their tattoos, specifically, according to this piece in Motherboard. The FBI teamed up with the National Institute for Standards and Technology to create a database […]
Likes like chocolate. Likes like the jackpot. It’s true.
Science Daily reveals a neurological truth, found during a first-of-its-kind study of teens’ brains while engaging in social media – that getting Likes on Facebook […]
FDA approves anti-addiction implant
PopSci reports on the upper-arm implant that oozes buprenorphine, a drug that suppresses withdrawal symptoms and cuts the craving for opioid addicts: Called Probuphine, the […]
Science Art: Minecraft Colosseum replica (Amphitheatrum Flavium)
Click to play One of the more interesting trends in scientific illustration lately – and I do think that it’s exactly the same kind of […]
Puzzling out Neanderthal architecture.
Nature looks at some strange things Neanderthals built for… reasons… inside their cave homes: Neanderthals built one of the world’s oldest constructions — 176,000-year-old semicircular […]
Polar bears and grizzlies are making global-warming babies.
Washington Post has us – well, not exactly preparing for the end of the world, but definitely on our guard. When polar bears start mating […]
SONG: Everything Appears to be in Order
SONG: “Everything Appears to be in Order”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “AI Pioneer ROSS Intelligence Lands Its First Big Law Clients,” The American Lawyer, 6 May […]