PhysOrg turns the “brutal caveman” stereotype on its head, with a new look at our earliest ancestors as sensitive folks who got a leg up on the competition because we were vulnerable… Read the rest “The Vulnerable Ape theory of human origins.”
The ESA has spent an eventful weekend now that the Rosetta probe has woken up after a long sleep on a comet:
… Read the rest “Good morning, Philae. How’s that comet looking 200 days later?”Hidden by shadows, Philae shut down on 15 November 2014 at 00:36 GMT after completing
This seems to be a minute beetle, as pictured in Objects for the microscope, being a popular description of the most instructive and beautiful subjects for exhibition… Read the rest “Science Art: Beetle, magnified 26 diameters, 1871.”
New Scientist has photos and video of a severed rat limb… that was never part of any rat’s body. It was grown in a dish:
… Read the rest “A lab-grown limb (muscle, blood and skin).”It may go down in history as the first step to creating real,
Quartz reveals the poisonous problem with poor sleep habits:
… Read the rest “Sleep cleans your brain. And lack of sleep, we now know, causes toxins to build up.”[R]esearchers now believe wastes are forcefully pushed through the brain at a much faster and higher pace, according to Maiken
Nature describes (and even has photos of) an electronic mesh that can be rolled up and squirted out of a syringe into a mouse brain where it can monitor (and stimulate) individual neurons… Read the rest “Let’s take a moment to consider the phrase “injectable brain implant.” Because it exists.”
BBC News has some details on a wireless device that gets charged wirelessly, too:
… Read the rest “They’ve got a camera that’s powered *by ambient wi-fi*.”The battery-free camera was modified so it could scavenge power from ambient wi-fi signals, store it and
Science Daily takes security to a whole other level with a new system that relies on your brain’s responses to words as security instead of memorized passwords:
… Read the rest “Forget your passwords; use your brainwaves.”In “Brainprint,”
File this, I guess, under “the problem with Jurassic Park.”
The little claw at the bottom belonged to the fearsome Velociraptor, a category of creatures … Read the rest “Science Art: Comparison between Deinonychus and Velociraptor’s feet, by Danny Cicchetti.”
Science Daily describes the regal bearing and frilly crown of Regaliceratops peterhewsi, the dinosaur they’re calling “Hellboy”:
… Read the rest “Hellboy, king of the Triceratops clan.”“The specimen comes from
Times of Israel reports on archaelogists puzzling out just *how* high Philistines were getting for religious reasons:
… Read the rest “Ritual intoxication in the Holy Land”In an upcoming symposium in Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, aptly
Nature uncovers just how hard it can be to do research when your subjects keep dying:
… Read the rest “Italian police pressure scientists investigating olive blight.”In the past year, plant scientists at various institutes in Bari, the capital of the Puglia region, have
White-nose syndrome is the fungal disease (you might recall) that’s killing bats. Millions of them. But now, National Geographic is giving us hope that a bacteria might be able to… Read the rest “No more moldy bats!”
This is the thing the last song was about, LightSail, which even now is orbiting Earth and probably (if it’s going as expected) accelerating. We’re not entirely… Read the rest “Science Art: LightSail by Josh Spradling / The Planetary Society”
Science Daily covers a Northwestern University study that shows how to remove biases from your brain while you’re sleeping:
… Read the rest “Sleep away your bad attitudes.”Other researchers have documented many unsavory consequences
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