Blue whales have recovered, just about.
It’s taken quite a while, but AP can finally report that blue whales off the coast of California have finally reached pre-whaling-industry levels: Researchers previously […]
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Kid finds 3,000-year-old sword… while washing his hands.
It helps, as the BBC points out, if you’re washing your hands in a river running through one of the world’s oldest civilizations. But for […]
Science Art: Echinodermata, Plate V detail, by James A. Grieg, 1921
This is the heart (and brain and pretty much anything that’s not an arm) of a brittle star, as sketched for Echinodermata, a study of […]
What do you call a dinosaur that isn’t afraid of anything? Dreadnoughtus.
Popular Mechanics celebrates a new *double* record-breaker, a dinosaur bigger than anything that walked the Earth: Today an international team of paleontologists unveiled the newest […]
Brain-to-brain communication via EEG over the internet.
Science Daily breaks the news that telepathy – brain communication through machines – is not only possible, but scientists have already done it across 5,000 […]
Neanderthals made art. Like we do.
The Associated Press (through the Wall Street Journal and other outlets) has been sharing the discovery of the artwork that changes the way we think […]
Best headline contender: “Russia confirms death of five geckos on space sex mission”
The Guardian brings a small tragedy happening a long, long way away vividly home with 10 well-chosen words: Russia confirms death of five geckos on […]
Magnets zap memories into brains.
ScienceDaily has more on a Northwestern University experiment using transcranial magnetic stimulation to improve memory: The discovery opens a new field of possibilities for treating […]
Science Art: Urban Expansion of Shenyang, China, 2014.
Click to embiggen vastly. This is a story of explosive growth, as told by the USGS Landsat satellite, and recorded in the Earth Earth Resources […]
Moving rocks caught on camera.
You might have heard, like many Discovery News readers, of the weird moving rocks of Death Valley – the ones with the long, curving trails […]
Vampire science: a red fountain of youth for Alzheimer’s patients.
Young blood. New Scientist sketches out the future of rejuvenation with experiments based on using young blood to keep old brains lively: Disregarding vampire legends, […]
Climate change and social upheaval, the last time around…4,000 years ago.
The National (of the UAE) reports on radical new ways to deal with climate change… from the dawn of civilization: The Bronze Age transition from […]
Science Art: The moon’s influence on earth’s tides, c 1930s.
A planetary self-portrait, apparently from Wonderland of Science, a book published in the 1930s. [via scientificillustration.tumblr.com]
SONG: “Rosetta”
SONG: “Rosetta.” (To download: https://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/choons/grant-Rosetta2.mp3 ) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “‘We’re in orbit!’ Rosetta becomes first spacecraft to orbit comet”, CNN, 6 Aug 2014, […]
Oceans are hiding global warming… for now.
The Atlantic, the Pacific… are sinks. Heat sinks. So says Scientific American, explaining that temperatures haven’t risen as sharply as they could have (YET) because […]