Drill two holes in your head and see me in the morning.
PhysOrg takes a deeper look at the reasons why prehistoric doctors poked holes in their patients’ heads: However, evidence shows that healers in Peru practiced […]
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Astronauts to use space snorkels.
Reuters reports on an innovative response to a space helmet malfunction: U.S. spacewalks have been suspended since July after a spacesuit helmet worn by Italian […]
Polynesian polynomials? Islanders counted in binary.
Nature has more on the math whizzes of the South Pacific: Binary arithmetic, the basis of all virtually digital computation today, is usually said to […]
Water on Mars. Not traces, but actual wet stuff.
Nature has reached the point where they’re worrying about how clean we can keep our ships and rovers, so they don’t track our chemicals all […]
Science Art: Theoria Lunae from Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius.
Click to embiggen In 1660, Dutch-German cartographer Andreas Cellarius created an atlas of the stars. This map shows how people thought the moon moved in […]
Duck-billed dinosaur redrawn – because they had “rooster-like” combs.
New Scientist imagines a fabulous new look for Edmontosaurus (the platypus of the dinosaur era) based on a new fossil finding – the duck-billed dinosaurs […]
Everybody ages… well, except when they don’t. Meet the Peter Pans.
Nature uncovers the secret lives of creatures that never grow old: A comparison of standardized demographic patterns across 46 species, published today in Nature, suggests […]
Martian Lake: Life was (probably) here.
Reuters reports on Curiosity’s latest discovery – the dried bed of what was apparently once a mucky, life-filled lake on Mars: The lake, located inside […]
Trauma can be inherited.
Shades of Philip Larkin…. Washington Post has more on how mice, at least, pass fear down with their DNA: In the experiment, researchers taught male […]
Science Art: Cumulative Absorption Spectrum, Hubble Telescope by NASA/STScI.
This is how spectroscopy works – how you can tell what’s floating around in space even when you can’t see it, only light that passes […]
Oldest ancestor’s DNA is sequenced.
Meaning, although PhysOrg stops short of saying so, that we could maybe someday build a hominin from scratch. As it is, though, we’ve still got […]
Space-X launches a satellite. Meaning: they’re in money.
International Business Times hints at what the first commercial satellite means for the future of space: After two failed launch attempts due to technical glitches […]
Wet planets – we’ve got their names.
Science Daily has Hubble’s latest clue to finding life elsewhere in space. The telescope has found five distant, watery worlds: The five planets — WASP-17b, […]
The Barry White organ. It’s how koalas get low.
Nature gets the lowdown on the anatomical secret behind the koala’s deep, deep voice: Benjamin Charlton, a biologist at the University of Sussex in Brighton, […]
Amazon’s fleet of flying robots
Mashable looks to the skies at Amazon’s latest innovation in delivery – a fleet of flying robots bringing YOUR Christmas present: A video of how […]