PhysOrg has another delightful story about prehistoric invertebrates. This time, researchers have discovered a half-a-billion-year-old enormous predator worm from the icy reaches of Northern Greenland: […]
PhysOrg has the story of a crab whose gills and other soft tissues were preserved against all odds for 75 million years: In a paper […]
This tasty-looking fruit is from a medical text – Medical Botany: or, Illustrations and Descriptions of the Medicinal Plants of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin […]
Forbes looks into a year-long study hoping to determine exactly what it is that makes cheddar cheese taste like cheddar and not gouda or Swiss […]
Mashable has an alien communication story with an aquatic twist. SETI and the Alaska Whale Foundation practiced for first contact by spending 20 minutes “conversing” […]
Two cats at dusk, growling in the snow. The nights have been long, but they’re growing shorter. May you survive your own lonely wilderness and […]
Ars Technica reports on a rocket launch from Jeff Bezos’ space company – the first in 15 months, after an engine failure destroyed a New […]
Harvard genetic researchers have struck on a novel way to restore hearing loss from damage and old age … with gene therapy that regenerated hair […]
SONG: “Burning Libraries”. (available as .ogg here) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on The Guardian, 12 Oct 2023, “Researchers use AI to read word on ancient […]
BBC reports on a very, very cold case that’s been solved. A body found during roadwork, extending a highway between Cambridge and Huntington, England, has […]
This is an illustration from a 1937 edition of Natural History magazine, an article called “Chinese Design.” This is a “Disk of Heaven,” or bi, […]
The Japan Times covers a brand new (to us) prehistoric dung beetle that a high school student discovered while breaking rocks in class: During a […]
Defector, mostly a sports-and-social-commentary outlet, asks a scientific question: We’re now at a point, genetics-wise, where we’re ready to make de-extinction a real thing. But […]
This is the cover of a report on the Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical “Navy Mini-Drone (STARS),” otherwise known as the Manta Ray. It was a fiberglass […]
I know, I know, but this is a double-blind study with around 400 hundred subjects published in The Lancet. It’s a little more technical than […]
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