At one point in history, one of the world’s largest cities was in America – and it wasn’t New York or Los Angeles. It was the heart of an area on the banks of the Ohio River … Read the rest “Science Art: The Kincaid Site in Massac County, Illinois, by Herbert Roe, 2004”
…goes to PopSci for yesterday’s tragically incorrect Biggest Full Moon in 19 Years Almost Certainly Won’t Cause a Huge Natural Disaster:
… Read the rest “This week’s Worst Headline award.”Past supermoons have coincided
Science Daily actively engages readers with research that shows that a lack of fact-checking in articles undermines readers’ concept of truth:
… Read the rest “Passively untrue?”The study found that people are more
Is is just me or is the BBC sounding insufferably superior when it reports that the English are healthier than Americans:
… Read the rest “Fit Britain.”But despite looking, the researchers did not find any real evidence
The Guardian is looking clean, abundant and safe as it talks about China’s mission to do nuclear power better – with thorium:
… Read the rest “China’s nuclear future.”Imagine how the nuclear energy debate might differ
It’s not news when more factory workers get laid off because their jobs have been automated. But New York Times seems to agree that when computers replace lawyers’ jobs, it’s… Read the rest “Robot lawyers.”
Why use your hands to manipulate the electronics, asks Georgia Tech digital artist Hye Yeon Nam, when you could use a little affection instead?:
… Read the rest “Kiss controller”Project Description
The Kiss Controller
Butterflies from the genus Euterpe, named for the muse of flute-playing and epic poetry known as the “giver of delight”… but also the name of a genus of South American… Read the rest “Science Art: Euterpe Teutamis &c. from Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies by William C. Hewitson, 1856”
The death of the dinosaurs was just a drop in the bucket compared to some of the real mass extinction events out there. And PhysOrg thinks we may be at the beginning of a really big one:
… Read the rest “Mass Extinction #6”“The
The book of love might be rewritten by each generation, but the pictures don’t change much. So MSNBC proves with its personal look at an intimate moment from a long, long, long time … Read the rest “Sex, 40 million B.C.”
The Association for Psychological Science really put the pressure on our decision-making process by drinking a few cups of coffee and publishing possibly the strangest experimental … Read the rest “Gotta go? Gotta choose!”
Archaeology Daily closes in on the real story behind ancient China’s legendary blood-sweating horses:
… Read the rest “Blood. Sweat. Horses.”The bones of 80 horses unearthed from the mausoleum of a Chinese emperor who
The US Navy, Nature reports, is taking some time out to give scientists a look at what goes on beneath the Arctic Circle:
… Read the rest “Arctic submarines.”Nature talked to two of the researchers involved in the next phase of
Reddit user Crooooow was flying from Florida to Chicago when the pilot announced that passengers could see something interesting out of the window if they looked quickly.… Read the rest “Science Art: Discovery’s Final Launch, by @Crooooow’s girlfriend.”
It’s fairly well known that men react slightly differently to women when the women are ovulating. What the New York Times reveals is that men in relationships are less attracted to… Read the rest “Smell of fertility.”
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