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 […]
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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: […]
Science Art: Topography of a Duck, by Maynard F. Reece.
From the book Waterfowl in Iowa, by Jack W. Musgrove and Mary R. Musgrove, published by the Iowa State Conservation Commission. I found this self-explanatory […]
Science Art: The Sodium D-line Observed with a Four-Prism Spectroscope by Florence Museo FirST
One of a series of videos in which white-gloved technicians from the Florence Fondazione Scienza e Tecnica (Science and Technics Foundation) operate antique scientific equipment, […]
SONG: “Kiss the Earth”
SONG: “Kiss the Earth” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest dinosaur takes first steps in 94 million […]
Manned Mars mission in billionaire’s sights.
Washington Post reflects on the future of space exploration. Rather than the will of a great nation, today it takes a determined billionaire to send […]
Cavemen & modern humans… they got it on.
DNA analysis presented at the Royal Society in London shows, Nature says in the most delicate way possible, that ancient humans were getting it on […]