The Crocodillo
I can’t figure out why something like this wouldn’t have survived pretty much anything. National Geographic reports on the discovery of an armored, omnivorous, desert-dwelling… Read the rest “The Crocodillo”
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SONG: Like Salamanders Do
SONG: “Like Salamanders Do” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “Regenerated legs no big trick for salamanders”… Read the rest “SONG: Like Salamanders Do”
Wolfe on the Space Race
That fella who wrote The Right Stuff got into the New York Times this week and allowed to do a little ranting about the big picture of humans in space:
… Read the rest “Wolfe on the Space Race”Unfortunately, NASA couldn’t present
… and Jupiter, while we’re at it.
An Australian amateur astronomer named Bird (or, IRL, Anthony Wesley) just spotted something slamming into Jupiter – a collision that’s been confirmed by the big science… Read the rest “… and Jupiter, while we’re at it.”
Bomb the moon.
Yeah, we’re gonna do it. Stupid moon, all smug and silvery and sneaky, looking down at us all night long. Scientific American’s right. We don’t know *what* could be hiding… Read the rest “Bomb the moon.”
Science Art: Prachtkäfer aus der Grube Messel (Splendor Beetle of the Messel Pit)
This is a fossilized insect, one of the Buprestidae (or Splendor Beetles or Jewel Beetles, from the collection of the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt.
Splendor… Read the rest “Science Art: Prachtkäfer aus der Grube Messel (Splendor Beetle of the Messel Pit)”
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Big fish! Hungry fish!
You may have heard of the giant prehistoric shark called megalodon. And maybe other megafauna, like Megalosaurus or even the mighty mechanical Megasaurus. But LiveScience is bringing… Read the rest “Big fish! Hungry fish!”
Send Your Name To Mars!
It’s free! You can get your name on a microchip placed aboard the next Mars Rover, just by filling in this form here!
It may take a couple of tries – the server is apparently really… Read the rest “Send Your Name To Mars!”
If salamanders can do it…
Reuters recently brought up some research into how salamanders do that whole regenerating limbs thing:
… Read the rest “If salamanders can do it…”In salamanders, the blood vessels contract quickly and limit bleeding when a limb
Living large.
New Yorker valiantly tries to explain – scientifically – why it is that Americans (and the rest of the Western World) are getting so darned fat:
… Read the rest “Living large.”The elasticity of the human appetite
Loonier than Luna.
The archives of Space.com have produced an old but strikingly weird story about a strikingly weird discovery – a second moon orbiting invisibly around Earth:
… Read the rest “Loonier than Luna.”The 3-mile-wide (5-km)
Science Art: Aphis Wolf, from Webster’s New International
This is the aphis wolf, or aphid lion, or, in other words, either the larva of the much less-threateningly named ladybug or lacewing.
This particular one looks like it’s a lacewing,… Read the rest “Science Art: Aphis Wolf, from Webster’s New International”
Listen to the lituus.
About two months ago, the BBC tells us, Scottish researchers used computer models to bring a lost medieval instrument back to life:
… Read the rest “Listen to the lituus.”Bach’s motet (a choral musical composition) “O
Vatican funds stem-cell research.
The Australian Associated Press reports on a new move from the Catholic Church, which is offering a $100,000 research grant for work on adult stem cells:
… Read the rest “Vatican funds stem-cell research.”The Sydney Archdiocese announced