“Curse of the dancer” reveals backstage backstabbing goes back at least 1,500 years.
LiveScience looks at a lead tablet, translated by a Roman history professor, that consists of a dancer’s curse against a rival: The curse calls upon […]
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Paint cows like zebras and they’ll be better off, initial study indicates.
Real Clear Science has a strange Japanese experiment (published in PloS ONE) in which researchers stole an insect-repelling trick from zebras and gave black cattle […]
As Australopithecus to us, so this fossil to sharks.
Nature reveals the “missing link” for sharks, thanks to a cartilaginous fossil of a 383 million-year-old eel-like fish: Christian Klug at the University of Zurich […]
Paralyzed man moves, thanks to mind-controlled exoskeleton.
BBC News has the story (told in many photos) of Thibault, a man who has been able to move all four limbs with a robot […]
Aspirin against air pollution? Really?
Science Daily takes a few deep breaths and plunges into a Columbia/Harvard/Boston University study that’s found that aspirin can protect lungs against damage from air […]
Disabling one protein might (finally) cure the common cold. Thing is, the protein’s not in the germ – it’s in us.
Science News takes rhinovirus by the (one) horn with a study that finds a weak spot in the way the germ spreads inside our cells: […]
Science Art: Hero’s Steam Turbine, 1903
A machine that converts heat into motion – an amazing feat – from the book New Conceptions in Science by Carl Snyder, found in the […]
Common insectides have lowered songbird populations – they eat a couple seeds and lose weight.
National Geographic reports on a study that has found nicotine-based insecticides – the world’s most widely used pesticides – act like appetite suppressants for songbirds. […]
Your cat really does love you.
Or so PopSci would have you believe. That’s their take on behaviorist Kristyn Vitale’s Oregon State University study of the bonding styles of cats: Both […]
Microplastics in your tea, from the teabag.
New Scientist has the less-than-cheerful discovery that a plastic-based teabag will release *billions* of microplastic particles as it steeps: A Canadian team found that steeping […]
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Science Art: Lower Bagshot Clays, Nr. Wareham, 1868
An image from an 1868 book, On the Disposition of Iron in Variegated Strata, which was the subject of a collection in the Public Domain […]
Air pollution can leave soot inside pregnant mothers’ placentas.
Science News shares a small but disturbing Belgian study that found solid particles of air pollutants around developing babies in the womb: Samples of placenta […]
EPA approves a fungicide distributed *by bees*.
Growing Produce has a story that strikes me as super weird, about the first-ever commercial fungicide designed to be carried onto crops by bees: The […]