As a species. In some pretty profound ways, Nature says. They highlight a few of the “outsize effects” our Neanderthal genes have on our lives:
… Read the rest “Makin’ babies with Neanderthals *changed* us.”Now researchers are using large
Sky News looks up to report on NASA’s airiest plans for exploring Jupiter. They’re designing a flock of turbulence-fueled “windbots” – cheap, floating… Read the rest “Windbots to explore Jupiter – the bumpier the ride, the better.”
Wired revels in the newest scientific revolution – the ability to rewrite our genes with ease:
… Read the rest “The gene technology that will change everything.”The stakes, however, have changed. Everyone at the Napa meeting had access to a gene-editing
Nature has more on the Brazilian “hugging” snake with legs… that’s changing the way we look at reptile origins:
… Read the rest “Four-legged snake fossil rewrites reptile evolution.”Although it has four legs, Tetrapodophis amplectus
This is an artist’s impression of a planet just discovered by NASA’s Kepler mission that’s gotten the folks at SETI all excited.
It’s the most… Read the rest “Science Art: Soaking Up the Rays of a Sun-Like Star, by NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle, 2015.”
SONG: “Kavachi”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE:Based on “Deep-Sea Cameras Reveal a ‘Sharkcano'”, National Geographic Explorers’ Journal, 9 July … Read the rest “SONG: “Kavachi””
Peruvian officials have, Science Daily reports, made like technologically advanced aliens and had first contact with a very isolated tribe:
… Read the rest “First contact for health’s sake.”Peru’s Ministry of Culture begins
From NPR’s Skunk Bear:
Words by Ray Bradbury. Images by NASA.
New Scientist reveals the anatomy of the earworm:
… Read the rest “Earworms (hopelessly catchy tunes) get stuck in certain brain shapes.”The study is the first to look at the neural basis for “involuntary musical imagery” – or “earworms”. They aren’t just a curiosity, says
Science Daily has a for-real scientific report with an abstract that begins “Have you held the sword? Have you felt its weight?”:
… Read the rest “Archaeologists unearth magic Viking sword.”Have you felt how sharp and strong the blade
It’s the sperm of perspective, is what it is. Nature is showing off the very seed of history – the oldest animal sperm ever discovered:
… Read the rest “World’s oldest sperm found inside fossilized worm.”The remains of long, thin cells preserved
You can too, over here: https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/, or here: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/.
Remember, Pluto’s 4.5 light-hours away. You dial their number, it takes… Read the rest “Sorry, no science news today. Busy WATCHING A SPACE SHIP FLY PAST PLUTO.”
The New Yorker paints a pretty vivid seismic picture of the quake that some scientists say is due to rip the Pacific Northwest in two:
… Read the rest “The Big One is coming. Sorry, Seattle. And Portland.”Most people in the United States know just one fault line
This is a demonstration of an instrument used to measure “cephalic index,” or how big a person’s head was. This was, at this point in the 1800s, deemed important so that… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. 3, The Pocket Cephalometer, or Compass of Coordinates, by Dr. Gustave Le Bon, c.1878.”
National Geographic reveals an ecosystem my 10-year-old son might have dreamed up. It’s all lava, acid and sharks. Inside the cauldron of Kavachi is a “sharkcano”… Read the rest “Live sharks discovered inside a live volcano.”
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