Fossil bones rejoined after 163 years apart
BBC has the full story on a 75 million-year-old giant sea turtle fossil that took a century and a half to put together: Atlantochelys mortoni […]
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Faster computers will find aliens.
If you never thought cosmic loneliness was a computing problem, think again. In Popular Mechanics, SETI leader Seth Shostak says Moore’s Law means we’ll find […]
SONG: “Starter Home”
SONG: “Starter Home.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Home Tweet Home: High-Tech Solutions for House and Apartment,” New […]
Science Art: Nebulae in the Pleiades, by the Yerkes Observatory
Click to embiggen This is an old photograph taken through the largest refracting telescope (no mirrors, just a really big lens) in the world, the […]
Take a walk to charge your phone.
Science Daily is rubbing their hands (and stomping their feet) over new breakthroughs in harnessing your everyday movements to power up your batteries: …[Georgia Institute […]
Elephants really never forget… their enemies’ words.
Nature reveals proof that elephants recognize individual humans – including the languages used who did them wrong: Biologists Karen McComb and Graeme Shannon at the […]
Chat with the folks who are building our future in space….
National Geographic is hosting a live chat tomorrow with some of the folks on the forefront of space exploration: On March 20 at 2:30 p.m. […]
Darker than Nemesis: Was it dark matter that killed the dinosaurs?
Nature tries to see what was behind the comet that killed the dinosaurs – and other mass extinctions that seem to happen every 35 million […]
LSD is back in the lab… helping people face death.
The New York Times looks at the first new research into LSD therapy in four decades: “I’d never taken the drug before, so I was […]
Science Art:Bacterial morphology diagram, by Mariana Ruiz
It could be the new collection of shower curtains and matching towels at Target. But no – pleasant though they may be to look at, […]
Gonorrhea is coming back.
The Verge is rolling out the red carpet to welcome back the clap: …[P]enicillin and various tetracyclines have all stopped working against the most prevalent […]
New class of antibiotics may kill MRSA.
Science Daily has promising research from Notre Dame in the fight against antibiotic-resistant germs – a new class of chemicals that should kill bacteria like […]
Are antibiotics making us obese?
The New York Times investigates the strange history of American antibiotics – and how the medicine hailed as a “superdrug” in the 1940s might have […]
Our air pollution *weakens* hurricanes (but makes them wetter).
Science Daily says “aerosols produced by human activities” – that is, soot and exhaust fumes and all that great air pollution – definitely has an […]
This home really speaks to me. Over the internet…
The New York Times looks inside the house of tomorrow, which is staying in touch with its owner via Twitter: So it is with Tom […]