Discovery News has the painful truth on the braided copper whip:
… Read the rest “Metal whip for self-flagellating monks during Black Death: Go ahead, beat yourself up over it.”Found in 2014 at Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire, the braided-together length of copper wire, turned to be part of a whip
Archaeology thinks a paleo-version of the Atkins Diet made Neanderthals squat and wide-bodied:
… Read the rest “Protein Diet Shaped Neanderthals”“During harsh Ice-Age winters, carbohydrates were scarce and fat was in limited supply.
Readers of a certain age will remember these waveforms – not by looking at them, but by sound. This is what data looked like as transmitted by a 4800-baud modem.
It’s kind of funny… Read the rest “Science Art: HAPN-T 4800 Baud Modem, 1991.”
Science Daily shows off a new medical device that grows new human parts in whatever shape you can draw them:
… Read the rest “No foolin’: this pen “writes” in stem cells. It can draw new body parts.”In a landmark proof-of-concept experiment, Australian researchers have used
Nature reveals new evidence that shows Homo floresiensis is way older than we thought – and may well have been driven to extinction by modern humans:
… Read the rest “We probably drove hobbits to extinction.”After researchers discovered
Science Daily tracks where (and when) the first modern humans made babies with Denisovans and Neanderthals:
… Read the rest “Ancient human hanky-panky mapped out.”Most non-Africans possess at least a little bit Neanderthal DNA. But a new map
Double check all your eggs – just in case.
Happy Easter!
The handsome couple in the image came from North American parasitic copepods belonging to the family Caligidae… Read the rest “Science Art: The Male and Female of Caligus centrodonti.”
Discover reports on unanticipated consequences of antidepressants getting into the water and changing animal behavior:
… Read the rest “Prozac is making fish… different.”[Teresa] Dzieweczynski, a psychologist at the University of
SONG: “Not a Pony”.
ARTIST: grant, featuring Enok Webb.
SOURCE: “Horse-sized tyrannosaur may be long-sought missing link in T.rex evolution,” Washington… Read the rest “SONG: “Not a Pony.””
SONG: “Atomic Number”.
ARTIST: grant. (Originally by case/lang/veirs.)
SOURCE: This doesn’t have a research source. It’s a penitential cover of a new song… Read the rest “SONG: “Atomic Number” (a penitential cover)”
Nature explores the impact of our little pocket computers on the way medical research is done:
… Read the rest “Y’know who digs your smartphone? Medical researchers, that’s who.”Smartphone apps developed by academics, pharmaceutical companies and technology giants
These are fossilized shells from Thomas Davidson’s “On Some Fossil Brachiopoda,” or “Palaeontological Notes on the Brachiopoda,” from this magazine… Read the rest “Science Art: Plate XII foldout by Thomas Davidson, from The geologist : a popular monthly magazine of geology.”
Good news from New Scientist – the so-called superbug has met its germ-killing kryptonite:
… Read the rest “We might have gotten MRSA on the run.”These bacteria are resistant to the most widely used class of antibiotics, called beta-lactams,
Washington Post has peeked as experts sexed a T. rex:
… Read the rest “Tyrannosaur pregnant?”The team from North Carolina State University and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences published its findings Tuesday in the
Nature follows a researcher who noticed typical Alzheimer’s lesions in very untypical patients – young people who died after receiving contaminated growth hormone injections… Read the rest “Can Alzheimer’s be transmitted?”
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