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.”
Manufacturing.net explains how BMW put a pollution-free semi to work on the autobahn:
… Read the rest “There’s an all-electric big rig out on the road today….”The BMW Group began using an all-electric semi-truck to transport vehicle components from the SCHERM
And, New Scientist points out, they’re here to help… because they breed fast and their young die too quickly to spread dengue fever:
… Read the rest “Genetically modified mosquitoes swarm Brazilian city.”Millions of genetically modified mosquitoes
Science Daily peers deep into our brains to reveal how exactly our parents messed us all up:
… Read the rest “The Larkin Effect exposed: How parents pass anxiety on to their kids.”The study is being published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
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