BBC gets into some *really* vintage sound, grooving with the world’s oldest flutes:
… Read the rest “The oldest instruments ever played.”The flutes, made from bird bone and mammoth ivory, come from a cave in southern Germany which contains
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This somber fellow illustrated the “Face” article in Robert Bentley Todd’s Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology. He was drawn by Richard … Read the rest “Science Art: Figure 134, from “Face,” by Richard Partridge, in The Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology, 1839”
PhysOrg knows, thanks to this math professor’s blind-spot-eliminating side-view mirror:
… Read the rest “What’s behind your car?”A side mirror that eliminates the dangerous “blind spot” for drivers has
Nature opens a window on a thing that has always puzzled me, and probably anyone who’s been in mosquito country in the rainy season. How do they do it? How do those persistent little … Read the rest “How mosquitoes dodge the rain.”
Discover gets some of that OLD time Texas religion, decoding who, what and how the White Shaman of the Rio Grande really worshipped:
… Read the rest “Worship of the White Shaman”The land is barbed with cacti, teeming with rattlesnakes,
Nature asks a question that gets more peculiar the more one considers it. A Japanese researcher looking at tree rings from two ancient cedars found unmistakable traces of a giant burst of… Read the rest “Why don’t we know what blew up in 774?”
In all likelihood, that is. New Scientist doesn’t actually *know* your password, of course. But they know that if you’re over 55, you’re more likely to be secure than… Read the rest “Grandad’s got a better password than you, kiddo.”
This is concept art originally painted to help NASA and ESA imagine what it might be like to explore Jupiter and its moons Ganymede and Europa – part of push to explore “outer … Read the rest “Science Art: Artist concept of proposed mission to the Jupiter system, NASA/JPL, 2009”
LiveScience unearths a scientific controversy over what seems to be a plague victim’s corpse defaced by vampire hunters:
… Read the rest “Renaissance grave reveals what it takes to kill a vampire.”The controversy begins with a mass grave of 16th-century
I’m getting this from Nature, although New Scientist has also been covering it. A group called “the Olga Cell of the Informal Anarchist Federation International Revolutionary… Read the rest “So the anarchists are killing scientists now…”
BBC breaks some not-terribly-encouraging news from the stoner desk. Neuromedical researchers have found marijuana-based meds don’t slow the progress multiple sclerosis:
… Read the rest “Cannabis pills not effective against MS.”Lead
Poppies.
For Memorial Day.
Funny how that saturated color automatically looks so 1970s now, when all they were trying to do was represent things precisely.
[via archive.org… Read the rest “Science Art: Figure 1, “Biosystematic Studies in Papaver, Section Oxytona,” Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 1974”
Alexander Anderson, medical doctor and illustrator, is remembered as America’s first wood engraver. He helped Samuel Mitchill explain what that was wriggling on the end of the … Read the rest “Science Art: Plate II, Mitchill’s Fishes of New-York, by Alexander Anderson, 1815.”
PhysOrg finds something weird about the nicotine-based pesticides that seem to be making trouble for bees. Neonicotinoids make them picky eaters:
… Read the rest “Pesticides make bees… picky.”The UC San Diego biologists focused
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