Science Nordic hails a medieval discovery in the heart of Odense, Denmark – a medieval runestick written by someone named Tomme:
… Read the rest “An 800-year-old Viking note found. Written in runes on a slip of wood.”It isn’t easy to decipher what the runes say and the
Science Daily reports on University of North Carolina research that shows transcranial stimulation, the fascinating new tech that uses mild DC current to “switch on” parts… Read the rest “Using tDCS – mild electric jolts to stimulate your brain – actually hurts your IQ score.”
Laboratory Equipment has sad news for those of us who like straight, simple, elegant communication. It appears that scientific articles with abstracts packed with (unnecessary and obfuscatory)… Read the rest “Short, simple abstracts… aren’t cited as much as those with abstracts tending to maximize the high-verbosity quotient.”
Science writer Leonard David is concerned. It seems like Mars Rover Curiosity is having some unusual wear on it wheels… erosion and corrosion that seems to be caused by liquid water… Read the rest “In the Martian morning, there’s dew… (and it’s eating away our rover’s wheels)”
from Lectures on Ventilation (1869) by Lewis W. Leeds, via Public Domain Review.
The invisible made visible.
Well, sort of. Popular Archaeology traces the efforts now underway to rebuild the Jamestown church where Pocahontas was married:
… Read the rest “Pocahontas was married here. In this church.”About five years after the footprint of the first Jamestown
Science Daily tries to describe a “platypus dinosaur” that combines the oddest bits of Brontosaurus and T. rex:
… Read the rest “A plant-eating T. rex… with a long neck.”Chilesaurus diegosuarezi is named after the country where
Nature reports on a strikingly beautiful – and utterly destructive – invasive critter that’s swept across warm waters from Ft. Lauderdale to Venezuela:
… Read the rest “Lionfish have reached Brazil.”Lionfish
These are two ancient horns, made of gold and engraved (or embossed) with runes and pictures that seem to tell a story. Or maybe just look cool.
Also, they are horns that it seems like no one … Read the rest “Science Art: The Golden Horns of Gallehus.”
SONG: “How the Moon Began.”
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE:Based on “Puzzle of Moon’s origin resolved”, Nature, 8 April 2015, as used in the post “Scientists:… Read the rest “SONG: “How the Moon Began””
Sometimes, as South China Morning Post demonstrates, you just can’t dig a hole in some parts of China without making some kind of remarkable dinosaur discovery:
… Read the rest “Dinosaur eggs in the big city.”The fossils were
Nature has more on the research into the aformentioned artificial earthquakes:
… Read the rest “The phrase “human-induced seismic hazards” means “man-made earthquakes.” Thanks to oil mining…”It’s the first thing that geologist Todd Halihan asks on a sunny spring afternoon at Oklahoma State University
Science Daily goes deeper into the singular (and kinda sexy) oddness of the vampire squid:
… Read the rest “Vampire squid stranger, even, than previously thought.”At ocean depths from 500 to 3,000 meters, they don’t swim so much as float, and they get by
This is a handmade map from the construction of the Panama Canal, one of history’s greatest feats of engineering. Culebra Cut is where the project experienced massive… Read the rest “Science Art: Las Cascadas Slide (Section 6) from AB Nichols Notebook Vol. 38, 1910”
Science Daily digs into new evidence that early humans enjoyed an occasional bite of early human:
… Read the rest “Our cannibal roots.”Gough’s Cave in Somerset was thought to have given up all its secrets when excavations
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