Nature offers one of the least comforting explanations for a mysterious hole in Siberia. It wasn’t from an asteroid or a rogue telephone-pole-installing crew. The 30-meter-wide… Read the rest “Mysterious crater explained. Not that it helps….”
Science World Report takes a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed look at the mutation that makes some people chipper, functional early risers:
… Read the rest “The sleepless gene.”The researchers turned to 100 pairs of twins for this
From The Principles and Practice and Explanation of the Machinery of Locomotive Engines in Operation, found on archive.org.
The book seems to be part of an 1850 re-printing… Read the rest “Science Art: Stephenson’s Patent, 1850.”
VCU researchers have found a cool way to boost your body’s supply of (metabolism-raising) brown fat cells – by turning down your air conditioning:
… Read the rest “The cool bedroom weight-loss plan.”Researchers found that
Science Daily reveals the record-breaking brooding period of the deep-sea octopus:
… Read the rest “Four years an expectant mother. Eight arms to hug them.”In May 2007, during one of these surveys, the researchers discovered a female octopus clinging to a
Nature shares satellite data that shows not only lakes, rivers and reservoirs shrinking across the whole U.S. Southwest, but even water underground is going away:
… Read the rest “The West is drying up.”To track groundwater
That’s what Sci-News.com and Science Daily are reporting that University of Toronto researchers have found. A trove of thousands of really really old tools:
… Read the rest “1,000,000-year-old tools.”Science Daily
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Translation: The Englishman Watt wanted to make a steam engine. He spent so much time on it that he upset his aunt. Finally, however, he was successful.
From Public Domain… Read the rest “Science Art: The Englishman Watt wanted to make a steam engine…, 1873.”
Investors are (quietly, says Scientific American) lining up support for companies figuring out the ins and outs of nuclear fusion:
… Read the rest “Fusion attracts cash.”…[T]he fragments of information that have filtered
SONG: “Step Into The Sky.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “A new raptorial dinosaur with exceptionally… Read the rest “SONG: “Step Into The Sky””
Yep. Scientific American has more on a painful consequence of temperatures swinging upward unexpectedly:
… Read the rest “Climate change means… more kidney stones?”In a study published earlier this month in the journal Environmental Health
Ever feel congested? Here’s where it happens – the paranasal sinuses. These ones are under your eyes. And the artery we’re specifically looking at here comes from the… Read the rest “Science Art: Figure Showing Anterior Ethmoidal Artery, 2013.”
Salk Institute scientists have discovered an injectable protein that reverses diabetes for two days:
… Read the rest “An injection reverses type-2 diabetes (temporarily). No insulin required.”In mice with diet-induced diabetes — the equivalent of type 2 diabetes in humans
Science Daily has more on the prehistoric plaque that’s teaching us about our ancestors’ diets:
… Read the rest “Unbrushed teeth left a message for the future”The research was carried out at Al Khiday, a pre-historic site on the White
Q (from Nature): What’s 100 cm long, has long feathers and flew with four wings?
… Read the rest “A: Prehistory’s largest micro-raptor. (Four wings!)”Here we describe a new ‘four-winged’ microraptorine, Changyuraptor yangi, from the Early Cretaceous
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