Native Americans go back longer than we thought.
Nature examines a DNA test on a “Clovis boy,” whose DNA proves that 12,000 years ago, the ancestors of today’s Native Americans were already here: […]
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Mother’s milk made to order.
Breastfeeding, the Australian Broadcasting Corp tells us, is a little more bespoke than one might expect: “Mothers are producing different biological recipes for sons and […]
Science Art: Life restoration of Ischigualastia jenseni, by Smokeybjb
Click to embiggen Here’s a little (calf-sized being “little” here) fella from the Triassic period (the first of the three periods of dinosaur rule on […]
A cure for love.
New Scientist examines the biochemical roots of the emotion we call “love” – and the chemicals we could take to reverse the symptoms: …[E]thics aside, […]
Buildings kill just about one billion birds a year.
Ecowatch reveals how our cities act as killing machines, with a new study that’s determined that buildings kill nearly one billion birds every year: In […]
Diuretic drug appears to help autism.
Nature explains the unusual effects that chloride ions can have on our developing brains, and what that means for a drug that seems to help […]
Latest graphene surprise: a better conductor than expected.
Or: “Weird substance gets weirder.” Nature has more on how the latest tests have thrown models of how carbon circuits are supposed to work into […]
Chimp civilization found in Congo.
OK, that’s a little hyperbolic, but only a little. The Guardian has more on the last chimp “mega-culture” just found in the central African jungle: […]
Science Art: Occipital View of Skull of Ovibos Moschatus, by W. West & Co., 1866
Click to embiggen This is a very old skull from a Stone Age mammal called Ovibos moschatus, as pictured in A monograph of the British […]
2,000-year-old village uncovered… in downtown Miami.
Miami Herald gets the low-down on the underground 305 – hidden under Miami streets and condos and neon-lit skyscrapers, there’s a prehistoric village (and a […]
Neuroscientists: Your memory is a fiction.
Science Daily reveals the tricks that the present plays on our memories: This the first study to show specifically how memory is faulty, and how […]
Little lost Chinese rover: “Good night, planet Earth. Good night, humanity.”
The Independent covers the poignant final hours of China’s Jade Rabbit lunar rover as the rolling robot bids a sad farewell to the folks back […]
Let’s bake up some stem cells!
Nature‘s sharing a recipe to make your own stem cells from scratch – by reprogramming ordinary cells in an acid bath: In 2006, Japanese researchers […]
Science Art: Water Features and Relief Features, from The preparation of illustrations for reports of the United States Geological survey, with brief descriptions of processes of reproduction, 1920
Click to embiggen An illustration illustrating illustration. This is how standardized maps are made. These are the standards. From The preparation of illustrations for reports […]
Monarch migration may be over. Forever.
Laboratory Equipment has some bad news for butterflies: After steep and steady declines in the previous three years, the black-and-orange butterflies now cover only 1.65 […]