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 […]
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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 […]
Science Art: Solar System by Johannes Kepler, Mysterium Cosmographicum
In the book Mysterium Comsmographicum, Johannes Kepler started mapping out how planets worked. The idea here is that the solar system is structured according to […]
Thanksgiving Theremin: Tigres de Verre, by Tristran Murail.
Yes, technically not a theremin, but one of its children. Bruno Perrault played the ondes Martenot and Matteo Ramon Arevalos played the piano, recorded on […]
Thanksgiving Theremin: Space Vocalise by the Armenian State Chamber Orchestra, Satenik Hakobyan-Ulikhanyan soloist.
Martin Ulikhanyan composed this dreamy piece, which was recorded on 16 March 2013, conducted by Zaven Vardanyan. Ulikhanyan has a YouTube channel and a Soundcloud […]
Mega-predator turkey ancestor discovered – a dinosaur that could chomp T. rex.
Untamed Science has the skinny on Siats meekerorum, an early Cretaceous predator the size of a bus: So imagine a world where the giant Siats […]
Waterproof? *METAL* proof.
Remember the superhero fashion designer in The Incredibles? Nature unfolds the true story of a “super-material” that repels liquids so well, it resists molten metal: […]