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 […]
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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 […]
Our cannibal roots.
Science Daily digs into new evidence that early humans enjoyed an occasional bite of early human: Gough’s Cave in Somerset was thought to have given […]
Pictish fort found off Aberdeen
BBC is reporting that University of Aberdeen researchers have got all het up over the thought that there are traces of all kinds of pre-Celtic […]
New Alzheimer’s hope?
The Independent reports on Duke University researchers who think they’ve figured out how Alzheimer’s happens… and how to stop it: Researchers at Duke announced that […]
The thing that really sets human beings apart: our chins.
Thanks to Science Daily, I’ll never think of my beard the same way again. They’ve got new insight into the evolution of humankind’s most uniquely […]
Science Art: Firing in the Fog, 1995
Click to embiggen vastly In which NASA tests a Space Shuttle engine in Mississippi, on a cool and humid day. Found on GRIN.
Obesity contra dementia. (How the extra pounds protect your brain.)
Popular Science plunges into a study in The Lancet examining the possible neurological benefit of being obese: The team of British researchers looked at records […]
Humor boosts the bottom line. (Call it “funny business.”)
Scientific American examines what’s so wise about cracking up at meetings: …Lehmann-Willenbrock and Allen explored whether humor in the workplace might also help a corporation […]
Scientists: The moon was formed when Earth smacked her twin sister.
Nature reports on a new way of looking at lunar formation that almost reads like a myth. The moon came to be when Earth collided […]
The ethics of altering your children’s brains.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience is asking the tough questions about what… and when… we should be doing to kids’ brains with electromagnetism: As the intervention […]
Drones for archaeology
PhysOrg has more on using drones… not just to find priceless historical sites, but to protect them from looters: With aerial photographs taken by a […]