Answering the unspoken question, yes, we are a little feverish here in the guild headquarters. Science News answers the explicit question, however. By having very limber wombat intestines… Read the rest “In observance of Thanksgiving week: How do wombats poop cubes?”
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Two fish from one of the first collections of X-ray photographs, published in Versuche über Photographie mittelst der Röntgen’schen Strahlen, 1896.
From the “Early… Read the rest “Science Art: Zanclus cornatus and Acanthurus nigra, by Josef Maria Eder and Eduard Valenta.”
Popular Science can reveal the disturbing solution to a minor military mystery with the story of how space weather made a bunch of military mines suddenly explode:
… Read the rest “Solar flares set off underwater mines in the Vietnam war – and we just figured it out.”[I]magine the U.S. military’s
Nature explodes the myth of brutal, violent cavemen with a skull study that shows they were about as mellow as modern humans:
… Read the rest “Neanderthals were pretty chill.”Writing in Nature, Beier et al. provide evidence that challenges
Science Daily invites us to the opening chapter of an alien invasion story, as international researchers explain how they just found a 31-kilometer-wide crater from an ancient meteorite… Read the rest “Giant impact crater discovered under Greenland’s ice.”
Nature takes a closer look the way different physical systems connection – the way the brain, the muscles, the blood vessels relate to one another – by gazing into the hardened,… Read the rest “Invisible mice reveal how bodies are put together – at remarkably tiny levels.”
Gemini Research News has some bad news for the Earth’s growing population. It turns out that our farms will face some trouble because we’re going to be bigger, healthier, and… Read the rest “We’re getting bigger: “It will be harder to feed 9 billion people in 2050 than it would be today.””
I’m not really that much of an electronica fan – at least not danceable electronic music – but this video is kind of awesome.
I mean, it’s awesome even though I know… Read the rest “Science Art: Cymatics, by Nigel Stanford”
Discover traces the ancestry of a persistent sexually transmitted disease, and finds that the human papillomavirus (HPV) that causes cervical cancer probably came from modern humans… Read the rest “HPV came from Neanderthal nookie.”
The Indonesian jungle does not seem like the best environment to preserve works of art, but, as The New York Times reports, for more than 40,000 years, these ochre animal representations… Read the rest “The world’s oldest animal picture is on a cave wall in Borneo.”
Nature pushes the date of the very first hot cocoa back by a millennium, with evidence of the dawn of chocolate in 3,300 BCE:
… Read the rest “We were consuming chocolate 5,300 years ago.”Until now, the oldest archaeological evidence for cacao (Theobroma
This is the earth under a stream inside a forest in Iowa, with all the trees and the water digitally removed. Or rather, with just the earth showing – thanks to the radar-like… Read the rest “Science Art: Lidar-derived digital surface and elevation models of a stream channel, by the USGS”
Science News looks back at the shallow coastal waters of eons past, when the wading was comfortably uncrowded and the first creatures with spinal cords began to take shape:
… Read the rest “The very first vertebrates came from the beach.”Scientists have
That’s a string of creepiness there, isn’t it? Everybody knows (I hope) the way some parasitic wasps turn caterpillars into living meat lockers for their offspring. But Science… Read the rest “Parasitic wasp makes zombie cockroaches.”
Scientific American reveals how some strange research is bringing the weirdness of the subatomic world – where things can be (more or less) in two places at once – into living… Read the rest “Weird life force: Quantum-entangled bacteria.”
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