The Guardian demonstrates mathematical skills in creatures that don’t even have internal skeletons, with Australian research that shows bees handling some rather sophisticated calculations… for […]
This is a copepod, a critter related to the Spongebob character Plankton. It’s from a book called Histoire des monocles that came out in 1820. […]
Nature reports on a lifesaving use for diet drugs: Female Aedes aegypti, like other mosquito species, feed on blood to get the protein they need […]
This story has been doing the rounds lately, but the research is available via Science Direct (publishing the Quaternary Science Reviews article). A team of […]
LiveScience digs deep for a prehistoric prize, finding dietary clues about Smok wawelski – a peak predator who, thankfully, left modern scientists poop full of […]
Click to embiggen A chart of the sky, showing how Ancient Romans measured time in the year 8 CE – meaning, what hora it was […]
UC Santa Cruz – or at least one of its professors – has raised an ominous warning of “robot gridlock,” caused when self-driving car algorithms […]
…Science News reveals, they switched to their singular diet within human history – the blink of an eye in evolutionary terms: Although modern giant pandas […]
New Scientist reveals an experimental system that uses brain electrodes to translate thoughts of speech into words spoken by an electronic voice: The technique used […]
Click to embiggen I’ve always had a thing for these guys – the frills are so, well, *frilly*. I don’t usually picture them looking quite […]
The Leakey Foundation reveals what we know about the newest proto-human species to be given a name, Australopithecus sediba – and what these guys tell […]
SONG: “2014 MU₆₉ (Approach Me)”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Science News, 30 Dec 2018-1 Jan 2019, “Live updates: New Horizons’ flyby of a distant Kuiper Belt […]
Nature reports on a peculiar, passionate project led by Mexican scientists who are trying to save an endangered species by transplanting hundreds of fir trees […]
Click to embiggen Phoning home from the next world over. This is how it looked half a century ago. You can find more James Burns […]
Science Daily puts the beekeeper’s foe, the varroa mite (believed to be a key player in Colony Collapse Disorder), in a new light. The parasite […]
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