Nature has a great pictorial guide called How to eat a Triceratops:
… Read the rest “Step one: obtain a 3,000-gallon iron cauldron.”Denver Fowler at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, and his colleagues studied numerous Triceratops specimens
Nature listens to the strange tale of the beluga that sang like a human:
… Read the rest “Whale speaks human.”“Who told me to get out?” asked a diver, surfacing from a tank in which a whale named NOC lived. The beluga’s caretakers
And let me tell you, Nature is none too pleased:
… Read the rest “Italy imprisons seismologists for failing at earthquake warning.”The meeting was unusually quick, and was followed by a press conference at which the Civil Protection Department and local authorities reassured
And today is the day there should be a song.
So we owe you a song. And a penitential cover. Hmm.
Hmm!
You remember Lake Vostok, yes? The Antarctic lake where scientists pulled up some water from 20 million years ago, just to see what things might have survived? Well, New Scientist says, … Read the rest “Lake Vostok is still and lifeless. Perhaps.”
BBC reports on the linguists who have started puzzling out how to read and write in proto-Elamite:
… Read the rest “The oldest un-translated language is getting clearer.”“I think we are finally on the point of making a breakthrough,” says Jacob
A prehistoric non-bird, found via Scientific Illustration.
(Not to be mistaken for the rather unpleasant crusts on the mouths of fever sufferers.)
If there’s something familiar… Read the rest “Science Art: Sordes by John Sibbick”
The nearest solar system to ours, National Geographic confirms, actually has a planet in it:
… Read the rest “We’ve got a neighbor (in Alpha Centauri).”The planet orbits very close to Alpha Centauri B—the smaller of two paired stars—and likely
Laboratory Equipment has some good news about a guy who’s had a pretty hard time… Richard Lee Norris needed a new face, and he got one from the University of Maryland that seems… Read the rest “Face transplantee can see, smell, taste… and SMILE again.”
Oh, yes we did. We’ve already used zeppelins to hunt for aliens (or at least meteorite strikes). And now, MSNBC tells us, we’ve got an odder airship for an odder task:
… Read the rest “We built a blimp to hunt Bigfoot….”Using a
BBC has one for the planet hunters – or, indeed, for Planethunters.org, which has just discovered a truly bizarre solar system using a pretty offbeat method:
… Read the rest “Amateur astronomers find planet with four suns.”The planet, located
Watch the skies next year, warns Scientific American, or you’ll miss something you’ll never see again:
… Read the rest “Once-in-a-lifetime comet comes around.”As it flares out of the distant Oort Cloud, the newly discovered comet
I looked for molecules in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character (1905-1934), and this is what… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. 2 – Slit Mechanism from “The Scattering of Hydrogen Positive Rays, and the Existence of a Powerful Field of Force in the Hydrogen Molecule” by G. Thompson in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London”
AsiaOne has more on the new planet made of hot, compressed carbon:
… Read the rest “Don’t tell DeBeers: Diamond twice the size of Earth found.”The rocky planet, called ‘55 Cancri e’, orbits a sun-like star 40 light years away in the constellation of Cancer and is moving
Extreme Tech gets right to the point of a new technology – a mechanical pencil that can draw functional electronic circuits:
… Read the rest “Draw your own circuits with nanotube pencils.”With MIT’s carbon nanotube pencil, the lead is formed
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