The Guardian looks back at a carbonized papyrus scorched by the lava that consumed Pompeii. University of Kentucky computer scientists have been able to decipher letters printed on the… Read the rest “AI is reading scrolls burned in Vesuvius.”
Scientific American upends the old idea that manly men evolved to hunt for meat for growing prehistoric families with physiological evidence that women – who are better endurance… Read the rest “Exercise scientists: women hunted, men gathered”
Popular Science reported on “ghost ships,” a.k.a. USVs (Unmanned Sea Vehicles), passing their latest targeting tests on maneuvers in the Middle East:
… Read the rest “Robot warships hitting targets in the open sea.”The tests, dubbed
An illustration showing how noticeable an eye actually is, from the text The Vertebrate Eye and Its Adaptive Radiation, which looks at eyes, eyes everywhere, all kinds of eyes. The book … Read the rest “Science Art: Diagram illustrating the inherent conspicuousness of an eye-spot…, Cott, 1942.”
SONG: “Communications” (a penitential Slim Gaillard cover). (available as .ogg here)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: This isn’t based on any research. It’s a cover… Read the rest “SONG: “Communications” (a penitential Slim Gaillard cover)”
How high?
This device will tell you.
It’s from The great Centennial exhibition critically described and illustrated, by Phillip T. Sandhurst, which you can read on archive.org… Read the rest “Science Art: Altitude and azimuth instrument, 1876.”
Physics Magazine joins Tufts University researcher Giulia Guidetti who has studied a glass shard that was broken and buried shortly after 100 B.C.E. that over 2,000 years gained the iridescent… Read the rest “Roman glass became photonic crystal”
Science Alert checks out “superionic ice,” an exotic form of ice that stays solid at extremely hot temperatures and is probably floating around inside the cores of Uranus … Read the rest “Hot Ice”
“The efforts made by oversober scientists to reduce such marvels to coldly reasonable origins have in a few specific cases been only too successful,” wrote George Gaylord… Read the rest “Science Art: Sea Sirens, by A.A. Jansson, 1930.”
PhysOrg reports on Witwatersrand researchers who’ve found tracks left by prehistoric footwear – a pair of flip-flop sandals that go back at least 75,000 years, making them… Read the rest “Stone Age flip-flops”
The Guardian visits a huge, 5,000-year-old tomb complex on Scotland’s Orkney Isles that reveals a surprisingly sophisticated level of engineering know-how:
… Read the rest “Neolithic engineers”The tomb measures
Stat covers a medicine-making strategy right out of Jurassic Park, with a UPenn researcher named Cesar de la Fuente, who is looking for protein-chains called peptides in the fossilized… Read the rest “Fossil antibiotics”
Once again, have a full instrumental track and melody, even, but the lyrics are not there. I now owe either two or three covers. One of them is just about ready.
It’s an airplane. Maybe the airplane. And this is how it looked when the U.S. Patent Office made it official.
I found the illustration on Wikimedia, where it was uploaded from the National… Read the rest “Science Art: 821393 – Flying Machine – Wright Brothers, May 22, 1906.”
BBC’s Science Focus recommends indulging in another few minutes of shut-eye, because Swedish research shows hitting the snooze button on your morning alarm can boost brain function… Read the rest “Hit the snooze button; your brain will thank you.”
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