The Skull Cults of Göbekli Tepe
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 […]
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Science Art: The Edison Multipolar Dynamo, 1894
Click to embiggen A big electric machine, as pictured in The United States of America. A study of the American Commonwealth, its natural resources, people, […]
Neanderthal dentistry
PhysOrg has one more thing Neanderthals had that we have too – dental care: A discovery of multiple toothpick grooves on teeth and signs of […]
Sniffing out Amelia Earhart’s bones… with dogs.
National Geographic is following the Amelia Earhart research group TIGHAR – the same group that held the chilling experiments involving coconut crabs and pig carcasses […]
Science Art: Some User Assembly Required, NASA “Mars Explorers Wanted” collection.
Click to embiggen vastly A poster recruiting colonists to Mars. A bit early, sure, but it can’t hurt to be ready. Though I wonder how […]
Memory is peculiar. And peculiar is memorable.
Science Daily investigates what makes “the peculiar” so peculiarly easy to remember: It’s this notion of ‘peculiarity’ that can help us understand what makes lasting […]
Very old oak; pretty young genes.
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: Each […]
Science Art: Top view of ribbon diagram of ribonuclease inhibitor (PDB accession code 2BNH).
Click to embiggen Ooo! Everyone loves a party! This is a protein, though, not a party decoration. The full title of this image (or, really, […]
Here’s your sub-space radio: China gets quantum entanglement to work from orbit.
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 […]
How to charge an electric car on the road.
Science Daily reports on a hurdle being cleared on the way to wirelessly charging a moving electric vehicle: If electric cars could recharge while driving […]
Birds’ songs are in their genes.
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 […]
Science Art: Medlar, Poppy Anenome, Pear by Hoefnagel and Bocskay, 1561-2.
Wildflower and fruit, from two 16th-century Europeans. More specifically: Medlar, Poppy Anenome, Pear ( 1561 – 1562 ). Watercolour, gold and silver paint, and ink […]
The oldest Homo sapiens are from Morocco. And pretty darn old.
Nature turns the origins of modern humans – not Neanderthals, not Denisovans, but Homo sapiens like you and me – back more than 100,000 years, […]
Your gut bacteria could neutralize your cancer medication.
Nature looks at another way personalized treatments could save lives – by taking into account how different people’s gut bacteria affect drugs differently: Bacteria living […]
Science Art: Cassini’s view of Jupiter’s southern hemisphere, 2014
Click embiggen So much depends on perspective. Image from the European Space Agency – taken by Cassini on its way to Saturn, and doing a […]