Zombies of the ancient world
Popular Archaeology thrills us with really, really old scares… digging up (literally!) evidence of Classical Greek zombie stories: As one case in point, [University of […]
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The Vulnerable Ape theory of human origins.
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 […]
Good morning, Philae. How’s that comet looking 200 days later?
The ESA has spent an eventful weekend now that the Rosetta probe has woken up after a long sleep on a comet: Hidden by shadows, […]
Science Art: Beetle, magnified 26 diameters, 1871.
Click to embiggen This seems to be a minute beetle, as pictured in Objects for the microscope, being a popular description of the most instructive […]
A lab-grown limb (muscle, blood and skin).
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: […]
Sleep cleans your brain. And lack of sleep, we now know, causes toxins to build up.
Quartz reveals the poisonous problem with poor sleep habits: [R]esearchers now believe wastes are forcefully pushed through the brain at a much faster and higher […]
Let’s take a moment to consider the phrase “injectable brain implant.” Because it exists.
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 […]
They’ve got a camera that’s powered *by ambient wi-fi*.
BBC News has some details on a wireless device that gets charged wirelessly, too: The battery-free camera was modified so it could scavenge power from […]
Forget your passwords; use your brainwaves.
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 […]
Science Art: Comparison between Deinonychus and Velociraptor’s feet, by Danny Cicchetti.
Click to embiggen File this, I guess, under “the problem with Jurassic Park.” The little claw at the bottom belonged to the fearsome Velociraptor, a […]
Hellboy, king of the Triceratops clan.
Science Daily describes the regal bearing and frilly crown of Regaliceratops peterhewsi, the dinosaur they’re calling “Hellboy”: “The specimen comes from a geographic region of […]
Ritual intoxication in the Holy Land
Times of Israel reports on archaelogists puzzling out just *how* high Philistines were getting for religious reasons: In an upcoming symposium in Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, […]
Italian police pressure scientists investigating olive blight.
Nature uncovers just how hard it can be to do research when your subjects keep dying: In the past year, plant scientists at various institutes […]
No more moldy bats!
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 […]
Science Art: LightSail by Josh Spradling / The Planetary Society
Click to embiggen This is the thing the last song was about, LightSail, which even now is orbiting Earth and probably (if it’s going as […]