Science Art: Figure Showing Anterior Ethmoidal Artery, 2013.
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 […]
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An injection reverses type-2 diabetes (temporarily). No insulin required.
Salk Institute scientists have discovered an injectable protein that reverses diabetes for two days: In mice with diet-induced diabetes — the equivalent of type 2 […]
Unbrushed teeth left a message for the future
Science Daily has more on the prehistoric plaque that’s teaching us about our ancestors’ diets: The research was carried out at Al Khiday, a pre-historic […]
A: Prehistory’s largest micro-raptor. (Four wings!)
Q (from Nature): What’s 100 cm long, has long feathers and flew with four wings? Here we describe a new ‘four-winged’ microraptorine, Changyuraptor yangi, from […]
CDC: Stop shipping that flu around!
Nature reports that the Centers for Disease Control have ceased all shipments of infectious disease pathogens until they can get them shipped right: Workers at […]
Scientists find where consciousness happens.
New Scientist locates the specific place where knowledge and self-awareness sits – in a brain region called the claustrum: In a study published last week, […]
Science Art: Two hundred bones form the framework of your body, 1958.
Click to embiggen Tennis, a different perspective. From All About the Human Body, 1958, found in the reference library of Newhouse Design. [via]
This is the world’s oldest smutty graffiti.
The Guardian opens the classicists’ bathroom door to reveal a Greek discovery – world’s oldest erotic graffiti: Certainly, Dr Andreas Vlachopoulos, a specialist in prehistoric […]
Anything but solitary contemplation, man. NOT THAT!!
It isn’t easy being alone with our thoughts. Nature makes monks seem manlier than ever with research that shows most people prefer physical pain to […]
Solar power beats coal, in (Australian) dollars and cents.
The Guardian has more on the power-station throwdown in which solar power is winning the race: Last week, for the first time in memory, the […]
Gödel music composition to debut at Gödel Prize celebration.
Nature has more on the suitably self-recursive premiere of a uniquely mathematical piece of music: The piece, “The Hilbert Heartbreak Hotel” by Danish composer Niels […]
Old phones are listening.
Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece on how old smart phones are being used to listen for disrupted sleep patterns, illegal loggers, gunshots, breeding […]
Science Art: Tadarida teniotis Rafinesque.
This is a bat from Tajikstan. According to the 2002 State of the Environment Report, it’s a rare bat. The European free-tailed bat. No, he […]
“Mind-blowing” Viking discovery made in Ireland.
Irish Central has more on the pristine site in a little village in County Louth that used to be a Viking winter base: Geophysical tests […]
“Sorry, but your new home is a cosmic burp.”
Science Daily has us imagining that message being broadcast to an an interstellar ship full of would-be colonists, thanks to new research that’s found some […]