U.S. returns pre-Spanish copper coins to Mexico.
Mexico News Daily reports on a trove of 3,500 coins – long, copper strips used for exchange as early as 1200 CE – that U.S. […]
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Tomb of the Warrior Women
Smithsonian Magazine looks into a tomb that appears to hold four Amazons – warrior women of the Scythians spanning three generations: Earlier this month, a […]
The jury remains out on ketamine-based antidepressants. They work… for *some* people.
Science News covers the ups and downs of Spravato, a ketamine-related antidepressant nasal spray that works for some folks, sometimes: Many existing antidepressants target serotonin, […]
Science Art:Induction Coil Cutaway, 1920
Click to embiggen From Harry Winfield Secor’s The How and Why of Radio Apparatus, from the Experimenter Publishing Co., which you can read here. Electricity […]
Christmas music and your brain.
The holiday spirit (or something) descended on The Washington Post, who have shared (non-paywalled, apparently) a statistical and neurological look at why Christmas music – […]
How to mine the bottom of the sea.
The Atlantic goes deep, deeper than ever in search of the wealth beneath the ocean floor: Today, many of the largest mineral corporations in the […]
SONG: I Spent a Week in the Dark
SONG: “I Spent a Week in the Dark”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Science Daily, 8 December 2019, “A week in the dark rewires brain cell networks […]
Science Art: The evolution of the synapsid reptiles, by John C. Germann,1945
Click to embiggen These are not dinosaurs – they’re older than that – but they are in The Dinosaur Book, Edwin H. Colbert’s 1945 guide […]
Infections reduce autism symptoms – because an immune-system molecule affects a part of the brain.
Not sure if “symptoms” is quite the right word here, but it’s what MIT News is using. Apparently, it’s been noticed for around a decade […]
The High Martian Wind
(In all caps because that’s a title, isn’t it?) Science News reports on the work the MAVEN probe is doing mapping the movements of the […]
Eye-tracking study: Men check out other men’s chests more than women do.
PsyPost shares research from Evolutionary Psychological Science that finds that dudes, like, check out each other’s pecs all the time (comparatively): “If having a larger […]
Science Art: Coat of Arms of Dornogovi Aimag in Mongolia
Click to embiggen A dinosaur in a coat of arms for Dornogovi Province, Mongolia. It’s from Wikimedia Commons’ “Dinosaurs in Heraldry” section. As UNESCO reminds […]
Reading the oldest story humans told… on a cave wall in Indonesia.
Nature looks at a comic book from 44,000 years ago that tells the story of a successful hunt – a story that appears to be […]
Feathered dinosaur tail found preserved in amber.
BBC reports on a brown-and-white relic that reveals what dinosaurs really looked like – the first material from a dinosaur’s body ever discovered: “This is […]
SONG: Sleep to Remember, Stay Awake to Forget
SONG: “Sleep to Remember, Stay Awake to Forget”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Scientific American, 18 November 2019, “Deeper Insights Emerge into How Memories Form,” as used […]