Poverty shrinks kids’ brains.
Nature measures the price of poverty, and the effect it has on children. A bi-coastal study has found that poverty shrinks kids’ brains from birth: […]
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An 800-year-old Viking note found. Written in runes on a slip of wood.
Science Nordic hails a medieval discovery in the heart of Odense, Denmark – a medieval runestick written by someone named Tomme: It isn’t easy to […]
Using tDCS – mild electric jolts to stimulate your brain – actually hurts your IQ score.
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” […]
Short, simple abstracts… aren’t cited as much as those with abstracts tending to maximize the high-verbosity quotient.
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 […]
In the Martian morning, there’s dew… (and it’s eating away our rover’s wheels)
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 […]
Science Art: Lecture 2, Figure 5, from Lectures on Ventilation,
Click to embiggen from Lectures on Ventilation (1869) by Lewis W. Leeds, via Public Domain Review. The invisible made visible.
Pocahontas was married here. In this church.
Well, sort of. Popular Archaeology traces the efforts now underway to rebuild the Jamestown church where Pocahontas was married: About five years after the footprint […]
A plant-eating T. rex… with a long neck.
Science Daily tries to describe a “platypus dinosaur” that combines the oddest bits of Brontosaurus and T. rex: Chilesaurus diegosuarezi is named after the country […]
Lionfish have reached Brazil.
Nature reports on a strikingly beautiful – and utterly destructive – invasive critter that’s swept across warm waters from Ft. Lauderdale to Venezuela: Lionfish have […]
Science Art: The Golden Horns of Gallehus.
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 […]
SONG: “How the Moon Began”
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: The […]
Dinosaur eggs in the big city.
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 […]
The phrase “human-induced seismic hazards” means “man-made earthquakes.” Thanks to oil mining…
Nature has more on the research into the aformentioned artificial earthquakes: It’s the first thing that geologist Todd Halihan asks on a sunny spring afternoon […]
Vampire squid stranger, even, than previously thought.
Science Daily goes deeper into the singular (and kinda sexy) oddness of the vampire squid: At ocean depths from 500 to 3,000 meters, they don’t […]
Science Art: Las Cascadas Slide (Section 6) from AB Nichols Notebook Vol. 38, 1910
Click to embiggen This is a handmade map from the construction of the Panama Canal, one of history’s greatest feats of engineering. Culebra Cut is […]