New Scientist looks closely at a tiny change with some big ramifications:
… Read the rest “Protons aren’t as heavy as we thought.”A fresh attempt to pin down its mass, with three times the precision of the previous best try, finds that the subatomic
New Scientist gets down with the drum circles of the male palm cockatoos – birds that make their own drumsticks to beat out sexy rhythms:
… Read the rest “Australian birds beat their own drums.”Palm cockatoos are the only species other than
Science News brings some pretty pulpy-sounding history into the present day with the discovery that a group in the world’s oldest city was carving skulls for their own mysterious… Read the rest “The Skull Cults of Göbekli Tepe”
A big electric machine, as pictured in The United States of America. A study of the American Commonwealth, its natural resources, people, industries, manufactures, … Read the rest “Science Art: The Edison Multipolar Dynamo, 1894”
PhysOrg has one more thing Neanderthals had that we have too – dental care:
… Read the rest “Neanderthal dentistry”A discovery of multiple toothpick grooves on teeth and signs of other manipulations by a Neanderthal of
National Geographic is following the Amelia Earhart research group TIGHAR – the same group that held the chilling experiments involving coconut crabs and pig carcasses –… Read the rest “Sniffing out Amelia Earhart’s bones… with dogs.”
A poster recruiting colonists to Mars. A bit early, sure, but it can’t hurt to be ready.
Though I wonder how welding would really work in a low-oxygen atmosphere.… Read the rest “Science Art: Some User Assembly Required, NASA “Mars Explorers Wanted” collection.”
Science Daily investigates what makes “the peculiar” so peculiarly easy to remember:
… Read the rest “Memory is peculiar. And peculiar is memorable.”It’s this notion of ‘peculiarity’ that can help us understand
Nature examines a tree that was alive in the time of Napoleon, yet has DNA that’s remarkably free of the usual damage of aging:
… Read the rest “Very old oak; pretty young genes.”Each time a cell divides, mutations can arise because
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Ooo! Everyone loves a party!
This is a protein, though, not a party decoration. The full title of this image (or, really, description) is “Top view of ribbon diagram… Read the rest “Science Art: Top view of ribbon diagram of ribonuclease inhibitor (PDB accession code 2BNH). ”
Science magazine reports on the latest Chinese space breakthrough – one that could lead to instant communication with distant spaceships, or hack-proof communications here on… Read the rest “Here’s your sub-space radio: China gets quantum entanglement to work from orbit.”
Science Daily reports on a hurdle being cleared on the way to wirelessly charging a moving electric vehicle:
… Read the rest “How to charge an electric car on the road.”If electric cars could recharge while driving down a highway, it would virtually
Popular Science is trying to figure out if you can teach a robin to sing like a swallow, or a warbler to tweet like a canary… and, as far as researchers David Wheatcroft & Anna Qvarnström… Read the rest “Birds’ songs are in their genes.”
Wildflower and fruit, from two 16th-century Europeans.
More specifically:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Medlar, Poppy Anenome, Pear by Hoefnagel and Bocskay, 1561-2.”Medlar, Poppy Anenome, Pear ( 1561 – 1562 ).
Watercolour, gold and silver paint, and ink on parchment
Nature turns the origins of modern humans – not Neanderthals, not Denisovans, but Homo sapiens like you and me – back more than 100,000 years, and a long way from where they should… Read the rest “The oldest Homo sapiens are from Morocco. And pretty darn old.”
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